All posts tagged "politics"

  • Korean Americans vote at a Koreatown location in Los Angeles Tuesday. (Park Sang-hyuk/The Korea Times)
    Number of eligible Korean voters in California sharply rises

    The number of Korean American voters has risen more than 11 percent in both California and the Southern California area since 2011, according to Political Data reports. As of November, there were 143,326 eligible voters of Korean...

    • Posted November 11, 2015
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  • Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (sitting) speaks to reporters as Councilman David Ryu (right) listens. (Courtesy of David Ryu staff)
    Councilman Ryu teams up with Mayor Garcetti as El Niño approaches LA

    By Brian Han It’s widely known that California is in dire need of water. Soon it might have to deal with the problem of getting too much at once. Los Angeles Councilman David Ryu joined Mayor Eric...

    • Posted November 9, 2015
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  • President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands during a trilateral summit with President Barack Obama at the U.S. embassy in The Hague. (Yonhap)
    US hopes for regular Park-Abe summit

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — The United States hopes to see South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold talks on a regular basis, a senior American diplomat said, calling last week’s first summit between...

    • Posted November 5, 2015
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  • Workers urge Korean Americans to register to vote in March 3 municipal elections inside a Korean market. (Park Sang-hyuk/Korea Times)
    [NY Times] Why are Asian Americans such loyal Democrats?

      In just two decades, Asian American support for the Democratic presidential candidate more than doubled, from the 31 percent Bill Clinton got in 1992 to the 73 percent cast for President Obama in...

    • Posted November 4, 2015
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  • Senior North Korean Foreign Ministry official Jong Tong Hak poses before an interview with APTN in London, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. North Korea says the United States needs to end its “nuclear blackmail“ and respond to Pyongyang's recent diplomatic overture to formally end the decades-old Korean conflict. Fighting ended in 1953 without a peace treaty, leaving North and South Korea still technically still at war. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
    N. Korea says bold action by US could open path to treaty

    LONDON (AP) — North Korea says the United States needs to end its “nuclear-based threats and blackmail” and respond to the North’s recent diplomatic overture to formally end the decades-old Korean conflict. Fighting ended in 1953 without...

    • Posted November 4, 2015
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  • Virginia House Delegate Mark Keam votes Tuesday with his daughter.
    Virginia Delegate Mark Keam to enter 4th term

    By The Korea Times Washington DC staff Virginia House Delegate Mark Keam (D), of District 35, will begin another two-year term — his fourth — in his seat following an uncontested race for the seat. Keam thanked...

    • Posted November 4, 2015
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  • South Korea's Prime Minister participates in the National Assembly. Rival political parties in the country are still very much at odds regarding state-issued history textbooks for students. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea’s political parties still polarized on history textbook row

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The National Assembly was polarized for the second day in a row Wednesday as the opposition continued to boycott parliamentary sessions in protest against the government’s decision to reintroduce state history textbooks. On Tuesday,...

    • Posted November 4, 2015
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