All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

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    Korean American candidates make last ditch effort to win votes

    By the Korea Times Los Angeles staff With primary elections coming up on June 3, Korean Americans on the ballot are working harder than ever in the last days of their campaigns. Michelle Park Steel, a Republican...

    • Posted May 28, 2014
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  • South Korean pitchers Ryu Hyun-jin and Park Chan Ho have both enjoyed success with the Dodgers. Now, a group of South Korean investors want to purchase 20 percent of the team. (AP)
    Ryu and Park headline Korea Night at Dodger Stadium

    By Tae Hong The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Korea Night attracted thousands of fans under a celebration of Korean culture, stars and a newly unveiled Ryu Hyun-Jin bobblehead. The annual event showcased a taekwondo demonstration and held a...

    • Posted May 28, 2014
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  • Shown are wanted posters for Yoo Byung-eun, the de facto owner of the ferry Sewol, and his son Dae-kyun. A Seoul court on May 22, 2014, issued an arrest warrant for the senior Yoo for embezzlement and tax evasion. The ferry sank off the southwestern coast on April 16 to claim 304 lives. The junior Yoo is in the United States, refusing to come back home for questioning for his alleged involvement in the management of the company operating the ferry and allegations of embezzlement. (Yonhap)
    Sewol ferry owners put on wanted list

    INCHEON, May 22 (Yonhap) — The de facto owner of a sunken ferry was put on the most wanted list Thursday after he repeatedly ignored the prosecution’s summons for questioning over corruption allegations, prosecutors said. Yoo Byung-eun...

    • Posted May 23, 2014
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  • In this photo provided by the Ongjin County, residents of Yeonpyeong Island rest as they evacuate to a shelter on the island, South Korea, near the West Sea border with North Korea, Thursday, May. 22, 2014. North Korea fired into disputed waters near a South Korean warship Thursday, a Joint Chiefs of Staff officer said, in the latest sign of tension rising between the bitter rivals in recent weeks. (AP)
    North Korea fires at South Korean patrol boat

    By Jun Ji-hye   North Korea fired two artillery shells near a South Korean Navy boat on patrol south of the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto inter-Korean maritime border in the West Sea, the Joint...

    • Posted May 22, 2014
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  • Hannah Sanghee Park, 27, is a rising poet who won the 2014 Walt Whitman Award for "The Same-Different." (Photo courtesy of Park)
    A Must-Read: Hannah Sanghee Park

    The Korean American recipient of the Walt Whitman Award  dreams of writing and running a television show one day By Tae Hong “In all the farewells in all the airports in all the profane dawns,” the first...

    • Posted May 22, 2014
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    Nobody does coffee like Lamill’s Craig Min

    Recognized as “one of the top young talents who’ve changed the world of food” His clients include Michael Cimarusti’s Providence and Corey Lee’s Benu   By Tae Hong A 19-year-old Craig Min took 6,400 square feet of a...

    • Posted May 21, 2014
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    Head over heels for Jen Chae’s ‘From Head to Toe’

    Korean American transplant from midwest is the face and personality behind the hit YouTube beauty channel with over 800,000 subscribers  By Julie Carlson Growing up, Jen Chae, creator of a makeup blog and YouTube channel “From Head to Toe,”...

    • Posted May 16, 2014
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