All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

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    KFA rejects Hong Myung-bo’s resignation offer

    (Yonhap) — South Korea’s football governing body announced Thursday (KST) it has rejected a resignation offer by men’s national team head coach Hong Myung-bo in the wake of the country’s winless FIFA World Cup in Brazil. At...

    • Posted July 3, 2014
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  • Park Hyo-joon, center, has signed with the New York Yankees. Park Dong-hoon, left, father of the 18-year-old player, said on July 3, 2014, the shortstop signed for US$1.16 million, and the Major League Baseball club also agreed to provide an interpreter and a trainer. He becomes the second South Korean to join the Yankees after the retired pitcher Park Chan-ho, who wore the pinstripes in 2010. (Yonhap)
    South Korean high school shortstop signs with Yankees

    (Yonhap) — A South Korean teenage shortstop, Park Hyo-joon, has signed with the New York Yankees. Park Dong-hoon, father of the 18-year-old player, said on Thursday the shortstop signed for $1.16 million and the Major League Baseball...

    • Posted July 3, 2014
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    Tang Wei to marry Korean director

    Chinese actress Tang Wei, best known for her role in the Ang Lee film, “Lust, Caution,” will marry Korean director Kim Tae-yong in a private ceremony this fall, their representatives said Wednesday. Tang, 34, and Kim, 44,...

    • Posted July 2, 2014
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  • Taiwanese news media extensively reported about Lee's good deeds. (Yonhap)
    Actress Lee Young-ae donates 100K to help Taiwanese baby

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korean actress Lee Young-ae, an icon of the Asia-wide boom of Korean pop culture, has donated about 100 million won (US$98,863) for a Taiwanese baby who was born prematurely during her parents’ trip...

    • Posted July 1, 2014
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  • Conemaugh Township Police Chief Louis "Pete" Barclay surveys the scene of a double fatality caused by a large dead tree that fell directly onto a car carrying two adults (one pregnant) and four children on SR403 near Tire Hill, PA., Mon., June 23, 2014. In Canada last Tuesday, a Korean couple from Baltimore also got killed when a storm caused a tree to fall on their car. (AP )Photo/Tribune-Democrat, John Rucosky).
    Korean couple vacationing in Canada killed after tree falls on car

    A Korean couple vacationing in Canada was killed after a thunderstorm caused a tree to fall on their car. Their Kia Optima was headed southbound on Ontario County Road 6 when its roof was struck and crushed...

    • Posted June 30, 2014
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  • Travelers in line at a Korean airport.
    1.36 million Korean tourists spent $4.6 billion in the U.S. in 2013

    The number of Korean tourists visiting the U.S. has increased 79 percent over the last eight years, according to California Tourism. In 2013, 1.36 million tourists visited the U.S. and spent $4.6 billion, compared to 1.25 million...

    • Posted June 30, 2014
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    U.S. drama producers sue illegal subtitle makers

    By Kang Hyun-kyung Six U.S. television drama producers took legal action against a group of Koreans responsible for creating the subtitles of popular U.S. soap operas available online without getting the permission from the original producers. On...

    • Posted June 30, 2014
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