• California Assembly OKs highest minimum wage in nation
• S. Korea unveils first graphic cigarette warnings
• US joins with South Korea, Japan in bid to deter North Korea
• LPGA golfer Chun In-gee finally back in action
• S. Korea won’t be top seed in final World Cup qualification round
• US men’s soccer misses 2nd straight Olympics
• US back on track in qualifying with 4-0 win over Guatemala
• High-intensity workout injuries spawn cottage industry
• CDC expands range of Zika mosquitoes into parts of Northeast
• Who knew? ‘The Walking Dead’ is helping families connect

All posts tagged "NPR"

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  [NPR] The Audacious Korean American Chef Who Mastered ‘Mission Chinese Food’

    — Danny Bowien, the founder of the Mission Chinese Food restaurants, didn’t grow up cooking Chinese cuisine. Born in Korea, then adopted by a family in Oklahoma, Bowien was already an adult living in San Francisco when...

  • Posted January 21, 2016
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  [NPR] Civil Rights At Issue In Korea, But Not The Korea You’d Expect

    —  When you hear about rights abuses on the Korean peninsula, the conversation usually focuses on North Korea. But lately, the North’s democratic neighbor, South Korea, is also drawing international concern for how its government...

  • Posted January 4, 2016
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  [NPR] Korea’s most famous entertainer is now its most infamous landlord

  In the South Korean capital, an independent business owned by local artists is taking on Korea’s arguably most famous celebrity — the entertainer and musician PSY. The real estate rift is representative of a fast-changing, modern...

  • Posted October 21, 2015
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  [NPR] Tired of Seoul-sucking rat race, Koreans flock to farming

    Kim Pil-Gi left his construction job in Seoul, South Korea, three months ago. Now he happily spends his days handling grubs: squirming, writhing, beetle larvae, each one about as thick as a grown man’s thumb....

  • Posted August 3, 2015
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  [NPR] A Showdown Looms At South Korea’s Gay Pride Parade

  —  In Seoul, a gay pride parade 15 years in the running is at the center of heated controversy between LGBT groups and Christian activists, who threaten to do what it takes to stop the marchers....

  • Posted June 26, 2015
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  [NPR] Often employees, rarely CEOs: Challenges Asian Americans face in tech

    A new report on diversity in Silicon Valley shows that Asians and Asian Americans are well-represented in lower-level positions — but, in comparison, severely underrepresented at the management and executive levels at five large, established...

  • Posted May 18, 2015
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  [NPR] South Korea’s single moms struggle to remove social stigma

    Monday marked a different kind of Mother’s Day in South Korea. It was Single Mother’s Day, an effort by civic groups to raise awareness of Korean society’s unwed moms. Despite Korea’s rapid economic advancement, the...

  • Posted May 14, 2015
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