All posts tagged "South Korea"

  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pose for photos before their meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. (Lee Jung-hun/Yonhap)
    Park, Abe agree to speed up talks to resolve issue of former sex slaves

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Monday to speed up negotiations to quickly resolve the issue of former South Korean sex slaves for Japan’s World War II soldiers, Cheong Wa...

    • Posted November 2, 2015
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  • From left, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, South Korean Defense Minister Han Min Koo and South Korean Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Lee Sun-jin salute during a welcome ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. Carter called on North Korea to shrink and eventually eliminate its nuclear weapons program, while acknowledging during a visit Sunday to the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas that prospects for reconciling with the defiant North are dim. Ash Carter will attends at the 47th Security Consultative Meeting or SCM. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    US, S. Korea pledge to strengthen defenses against N. Korea

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. and South Korea are pledging to strengthen their combined defenses against what they call threats by North Korea, but announced no specific new steps toward a long-delayed transfer of wartime...

    • Posted November 2, 2015
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  • A five-car accident involving two TV show "Real Men" staff vehicles occurred on the Daegu-Pohang Expressway in South Korea Monday. (Yonhap)
    ‘Real Men’ staff, comedian involved in five-car expressway crash

    A five-car accident involving two from the popular televison variety show “Real Men” occurred on a South Korean expressway Monday morning, with comedian Kim Young-chul suffering a finger fracture, Yonhap reported. According to police, a minivan crashed...

    • Posted November 2, 2015
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  • Son Heung-min
    ‘Sonaldo’ back on nat’l team for Nov. World Cup qualifiers

    SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Yonhap) — Tottenham Hotspurs’ attacker Son Heung-min is back on the South Korean men’s national football team for two upcoming World Cup qualifiers. Head coach Uli Stielike announced his 23-man roster on Monday for...

    • Posted November 2, 2015
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  • Protesters wearing masks of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, and South Korean President Park Geun-hye prepare to join in a rally against Abe's planned visit in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Abe and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will visit Seoul for their trilateral summit with Park. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    S. Korea, China, Japan hope to thaw relations with summit

    TOKYO (AP) — They’ve stayed apart for more than three years, divided by antagonisms dating back to before World War II. Now the leaders of Japan, South Korea and China hope to find political common ground despite...

    • Posted October 30, 2015
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  • Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Google's holding company, Eric Schmidt (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
    Google chief stresses importance of deregulation in S. Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc., the holding company of Google Inc., said Friday that flexible regulations will help South Korea amid the protracted economic slowdown. “I know that your country is seeing...

    • Posted October 30, 2015
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  • South Korea's world No. 2 golfer Park Inbee (Yonhap)
    Park Inbee can’t chase Lydia Ko, withdraws due to injury

    By Brian Han What Park Inbee needs right now is a hot streak to end the LPGA Tour season. That’s if she wants to catch up with newly crowned world No. 1 Lydia Ko who is also...

    • Posted October 30, 2015
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