All posts tagged "South Korea"

  • South Korean riot police officers spray water cannons as police officers try to break up protesters trying to march to the Presidential House after a rally against government's policy in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015. Police fired tear gas and water cannons Saturday as they clashed with anti-government demonstrators who marched through Seoul in what was believed to be the largest protest in South Korea's capital in more than seven years.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    [NYT Op-ed] South Korea targets dissent

      South Koreans can be as proud of their country’s emergence from dictatorship into a vibrant democracy as they are of the rags-to-riches development that made their country a global industrial powerhouse. So it...

    • Posted November 20, 2015
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  • South Korea’s Kwon Chang-hoon, center, celebrates with his teammates scoring his side's third goal during the World Cup Group G qualification soccer match between Lebanon and South Korea in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
    S. Korea shut out of top Asian football honors for 2nd straight year

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea has been shut out of Asia’s top individual football award for the second straight year. No South Korean player was among the three finalists for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Player of...

    • Posted November 20, 2015
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  • An Byeong-hun of South Korea tees off on 14th hole during the round one of DP World Tour Championship golf tournament in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
    An Byeong-hun falls to middle of pack at Dubai Championship

    By Brian Han An Byeong-hun finished in third last week at the BMW Masters and exuded confidence coming into the European Tour’s last event of the year at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. The South...

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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  • An office in the Gangnam district in Seoul, South Korea (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    S. Korea ranks 115th in world for gender equality: report

    By Brian Han For a country that’s seen exponential economic growth in the last half century, South Korea seems to sometimes lag in social development. The most recent evidence of that comes from a 2015 World Economic...

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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  • CJ CGV CEO Seo Jung speaks to reporters at a CGV-owned theater in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul, Wednesday evening. He said he will make the all-out effort to turn the nation's largest multiplex chain into the world's no.1 cinema company with 10,000 screens worldwide by 2020. (Courtesy of CJ CGV)
    Korean cinema chain CGV seeks to take over global market

    Korean multiplex aims to have 10,000 screens worldwide by 2020 By Park Si-soo CJ CGV will take over cinema chains in the United States and expand into India and Latin America with an ambitious goal of having...

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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    S. Korea rejects Abe’s demand to remove sex slave statue

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea on Thursday dismissed a news report saying that Japan’s premier had suggested the removal of a statue symbolizing South Korean victims of Tokyo’s sex slavery as a precondition for resolving the so-called...

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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  • South Korea's closer Lee Hyun-seung (48), first baseman Park Byung-ho (3) and catcher Kang Min-ho celebrate after beating Japan 4-3 in their semifinal game at the Premier12 world baseball tournament at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015. South Korea advance to the final. (AP Photo/Toru Takahashi)
    S. Korea rallies to beat Japan 4-3 to reach Premier 12 final

    TOKYO (Yonhap) — South Korea staged an improbable comeback to defeat Japan 4-3 in the semifinals of the Premier 12 baseball tournament on Thursday. Cleanup Lee Dae-ho delivered a go-ahead two-run single to cap off a four-run...

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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