All posts tagged "South Korea"

  • Jung Gun-mok, front, a 64-year-old former South Korean fisherman who was abducted by North Korea in the Yellow Sea about 40 years ago, looks away as he is about to burst into tears, as he bids farewell to his mother on the bus. His mother Lee Bok-soon, 88, helplessly looks out the window as the bus is about to leave the resort on Mount Kumgang on the North's east coast on Oct. 26, 2015, the last day of the three-day reunions. (Yonhap)
    Koreas’ separated families bid tearful farewell

    MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea (Yonhap) — Korean family members torn by the 1950-53 Korean War bid a tearful farewell to their relatives in North Korea on Monday after days of the much-awaited but short reunions. A total...

    • Posted October 26, 2015
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  • South Koreans gather to resister for the upcoming family reunions with their North Korean family members at a hotel in Sokcho, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. South Koreans will travel to the Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea for the Separated Family Reunion Meeting, which begins Saturday and ends Monday. (Kim Do-hun/Yonhap)
    Second group of South Koreans prepare for final cross-border family reunion

    SOKCHO, South Korea (Yonhap) — Another group of South Korean families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War gathered at the country’s east coastal city on Friday to prepare for their first reunions with North Korean relatives. The...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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    [CNN] ‘Forgotten’: South Korea’s elderly struggle to get by

    On a Saturday morning in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, a line forms near a city underpass. It’s filled with homeless elderly people, who wait for Pastor Choi Seong-Won to set up his weekly mobile soup kitchen....

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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  • National security adviser Kim Kwan-jin speaks at a parliamentary audit session on Oct. 23, 2015. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea to push for talks with N. Korea after family reunions: NSC chief

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea will push for inter-Korean government and red cross talks in the near future after the on-going event of family reunions, Seoul’s security adviser said Friday. “Regarding the South-North agreement, we will go...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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    Samsung introduces new flexible battery ‘Stripe’

    By Brian Han Samsung’s latest technological breakthrough comes in the form of a flexible battery that looks more like a bookmark than anything else. It’s not ready to hit consumer products just yet, but certain aspects of...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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    S. Korea’s economy expands at fastest rate in 3 quarters

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s economy expanded at the fastest clip in three quarters during the July-September period. The Bank of Korea said Friday that Asia’s fourth-largest economy grew 2.6 percent from a year earlier....

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye speaks during a joint news conference with President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
    President Park’s approval rating edges down amid history textbook row

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye’s job approval rating edged down amid controversy over the government’s decision to reintroduce state history textbooks for secondary school students. A poll released by Gallup Korea showed 42 percent approved of...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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