All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • (KOMO-TV news screen capture)
    Woman bites rare pearl while dining at Italian restaurant

    ISSAQUAH, Wash. (AP) — A woman bit down on a rare pearl while eating a meal of clams and other seafood at an Italian restaurant in Issaquah. KOMO-TV reports (http://goo.gl/ohETuU) Lindsay Hasz and her husband Chris were...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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  • This aerial photo shows damage after a tornado ripped through the Sugar Hill Recreational Park in the town of Convent, in southern La., Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. Tornadoes ripped through the RV park in Louisiana and significantly damaged nearly 100 homes and apartments in Florida as a deadly storm system rolled across the South, and forecasters warned that more twisters were possible Wednesday along the East Coast. (David Grunfeld/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP)
    Powerful storm kills 3 in Virginia, raising death toll to 6

    WAVERLY, Va. (AP) — A powerful storm system swept across the East Coast on Wednesday, killing three people in Virginia and knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the region. A day...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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  • South Korean actor Jung Woo-sung (Yonhap)
    Actor Jung Woo-sung to meet Syrian refugees

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korean actor Jung Woo-sung plans to meet Syrian refugees in Lebanon as part of efforts to enhance public awareness of the humanitarian crisis, a U.N. agency said Wednesday. Jung has worked as a...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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  • A "ghost rally" using holographic images ( Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul)
    Police seek to punish Amnesty International Korea for hologram protest

    By Kim Se-jeong Police in Seoul are seeking to punish Amnesty International Korea for waging an anti-government “ghost rally” using holographic images, the first of its kind in Korea. The international human rights group projected holographic images...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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  • A truck with extra loads strapped to the top drives through South Korea's western border city of Paju, north of Seoul, on Feb. 11, 2016, after returning from a joint industrial park in the North Korean border city of Kaesong. (Yonhap)
    Korean firms report in excess of $660M in losses from factory park shutdown

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korean firms based in a jointly run industrial park in a North Korean border city have suffered more than 815 billion won (US$660 million) in losses from its shutdown, their association claimed Wednesday....

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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  • (Courtesy of tvN)
    [LAT] Warner Bros. acquires video-on-demand service DramaFever

      — Warner Bros. on Tuesday announced its purchase of DramaFever, a streaming-video subscription service that offers South Korean soap operas and movies. The studio is acquiring DramaFever from Japanese-based telecommunications firm SoftBank Group. The...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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  • For more than a decade, 15,000 to 16,000 pages of documents that chronicle the very early years of Korean immigration to California have been in limbo. (Kenneth Klein / USC East Asian Library)
    [LAT] Legal fight over century-old Korean papers found in L.A. ends

    – Thirteen years ago, crews renovating a modest, white-walled single-story building in Exposition Park made a discovery in the attic crawl space. The building, a Los Angeles city-designated historic landmark, had served as the headquarters...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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