All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

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    Chopper returning from ferry victim search operation crashes, killing 5

    GWANGJU (Yonhap) — A firefighting helicopter crashed into a residential area of South Korea’s southern city of Gwangju on Thursday, killing all five firefighters on board, officials said. The chopper crashed into an uncrowded street near a...

    • Posted July 17, 2014
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    National disgrace on tour

    By Baek Byung-yeul, Kwon Ji-youn Last year, a POSCO Energy executive was fired after physically assaulting a flight attendant for serving ramen noodles that he claimed were not fully cooked. Criticism mounted against him even after he...

    • Posted July 16, 2014
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  • Salina Yoon at a book signing event at Children's Book World, in Los Angeles, on June 28th, 2014. (Courtesy of Salina Yoon)
    Orders keep coming in for Salina Yoon’s children’s books

    By Tae Hong Salina Yoon’s 5-year-old son went outside to play one day and returned home with a pinecone. It should have a box to live in, he said, and will you please cut a little blanket...

    • Posted July 15, 2014
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    2014 Miss Korea: second runner-up here is second runner-up there

    Sarah Lee, the 2014 Miss Korea USA’s second runner-up from Los Angeles, went on to take the same honor in Korea on Tuesday. The 23-year-old student was selected as one of the four second runner-ups of the 2014 Miss...

    • Posted July 15, 2014
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  • (Park Sang-hyuk)
    Number of Korean organizations in the U.S. rises to 1,123

    According to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade As the Korean population continues to rise in the United States, so has the number of Korean organizations, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Monday. According...

    • Posted July 15, 2014
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  • South Korean marine LVT-7 landing craft sail to shores through smoke screens during the U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises called Ssangyong, part of the Foal Eagle military exercises, in Pohang, South Korea, Monday, March 31, 2014. South Korea said North Korea has announced plans to conduct live-fire drills near the rivals' disputed western sea boundary. The planned drills Monday come after an increase in threatening rhetoric from Pyongyang and a series of rocket and ballistic missile launches in an apparent protest against the annual military exercises by Seoul and Washington.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    North Korea fires 100 rounds of artillery near eastern sea border

    (Yonhap) — North Korea on Monday fired about 100 artillery shells into the East Sea from a place close to the inter-Korean border, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, the latest in a series of military...

    • Posted July 14, 2014
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  • Texas Rangers' Choo Shin-soo, of Korea, avoids a close pitch. (AP)
    Choo Shin-soo and last-place-Rangers hope for better 2nd half

    $130 million Korean outfielder ends disappointing first half with 0.242 BA ARLINGTON (Yonhap) — As he wrapped up a disappointing first half of the Major League Baseball (MLB) season with the Texas Rangers on Sunday, South Korean...

    • Posted July 14, 2014
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