All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Members of the Australian football team celebrate after scoring their first goal in the 56th second against South Korea during the Asian women's Olympic football qualifying match at Yanmar Stadium Nagai in Osaka, Japan, Friday. (Yonhap)
    S. Korean women fall to Australia; Olympic soccer dream in jeopardy

    OSAKA, Japan (Yonhap) — South Korea suffered a 2-0 loss to Australia at the final Asian women’s Olympic football qualifying tournament Friday, with their quest for the maiden Summer Games appearance now in jeopardy. At Yanmar Stadium...

    • Posted March 4, 2016
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  • South Korean slugger Park Byung-ho of the Minnesota Twins gets a congratulatory hand clasp from team manager Paul Molitor after picking up his first preseason hit and RBI against the Boston Red Sox in Fort Myers, Florida, on March 3, 2016 (local time). Park had gone hitless, striking out three times, a day earlier. (Yonhap)
    Twins’ Park Byung-ho picks up first hit, RBI in preseason

    Minnesota Twins’ Park Byung-ho picked up his first preseason hit and RBI in Florida on Thursday. Park singled home a run in the bottom of the second inning against the Boston Red Sox starter Rick Porcello. It was...

    • Posted March 4, 2016
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  • A North Korean missile unit takes part in a military parade to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army in Pyongyang in this picture taken April 25, 2007. North Korea fired several short-range missiles towards the Sea of Japan on Friday morning, Kyodo news agency said, quoting Japanese and U.S. Officials. (Yonhap)
    Branch by branch, a look at N. Korea’s massive military

    TOKYO (AP) — With tensions high and the United States and South Korea ready to hold their massive annual war games next week, which North Korea sees as a dress rehearsal for invasion, Pyongyang is warning it...

    • Posted March 4, 2016
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  • (Korea Times file)
    Sample questions from math and reading sections of new SAT

    Below are some sample questions from the new SAT test that debuts nationally on Saturday. ___ Aaron is staying at a hotel that charges $99.95 per night plus tax for a room. A tax of 8% is...

    • Posted March 3, 2016
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  • People watch a TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 3, 2016. North Korea fired several short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast Thursday, Seoul officials said, just hours after the U.N. Security Council approved the toughest sanctions on Pyongyang in two decades for its recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch. The screen reads "Sanction on the North Korea." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    North Korea says its readying nukes

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his country’s nuclear weapons made ready for use at a moment’s notice, the official state news agency reported Friday. Kim also said his country will...

    • Posted March 3, 2016
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  • In this picture taken on Wednesday, April 8, 2015, an alumna sits in a victim's chair inside a classroom at Danwon High School in Ansan, south of Seoul, South Korea. One year ago the ferry Sewol carrying 325 second-year students on a field trip to a southern island sank; only 75 survived. Their classrooms in this city about an hour south of Seoul have barely changed from the day they left for the trip. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Teacher’s suicide after ferry disaster not death on duty: Top court

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s top court dismissed an appeal filed by the bereaved family of a former vice principal of a local high school, who committed suicide after many of his students died in a ferry...

    • Posted March 3, 2016
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  • FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2015 file photo, former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Miss. Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney says he will not run for president in 2016. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
    Romney, McCain: Trump a danger for America’s future

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In an extraordinary display of Republican chaos, the party’s most recent presidential nominees, Mitt Romney and John McCain, lambasted current front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him unfit for office and a...

    • Posted March 3, 2016
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