• California Assembly OKs highest minimum wage in nation
• S. Korea unveils first graphic cigarette warnings
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• 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
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All posts tagged "South Korea"

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  ‘Veteran’ has solid opening at North American box offices

  LOS ANGELES (Yonhap) — A Korean action film made a solid dent in North American box offices in its opening week boosted by its long-lasting popularity in South Korea and favorable reviews from American critics, according to...

  • Posted September 23, 2015
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  S. Korean students learn about comfort women with new textbooks

  By Kim Se-jeong Thirty-two students at Yonhi Middle School in Seoul had a special history class on sexual slavery during World War II, using special textbooks, Tuesday. The workbooks, along with a three-minute video, were released as...

  • Posted September 22, 2015
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  S. Korean military saw 1,174 desert since 2013, 64.6% of deaths ruled suicide

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — The South Korean military saw a total of 1,174 soldiers desert in nearly three years, with more than half of them struggling to adapt to life at the military barracks, a parliamentary report showed...

  • Posted September 22, 2015
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  PyeongChang breaks ground on athletes’ village for 2018 Winter Olympics

  SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Yonhap) — PyeongChang, the South Korean host of the 2018 Winter Olympics, announced Tuesday it has broken ground on the athletes’ village for the quadrennial competition. The ceremony to launch the construction of the...

  • Posted September 22, 2015
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  Bon Jovi to delight S. Korean crowd after 20 years

  SEOUL  (Yonhap) — Bon Jovi will hold his first concert in South Korea in two decades later Tuesday. The American rock band will perform at Seoul’s Jamsil Stadium at 8 p.m. in its second-ever concert in the...

  • Posted September 22, 2015
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  [CNET] S. Korea’s government hit with 114,000 cyberattacks in 5 years

  South Korea may have the fastest Internet speed in the world, but it looks like the country needs to ramp up its security. South Korea’s government has been hit by more than 110,000 cyberattacks in the...

  • Posted September 21, 2015
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  S. Korean surveillance app putting children at risk

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Security researchers say they found critical weaknesses in a South Korean government-mandated child surveillance app – vulnerabilities that left the private lives of the country’s youngest citizens open to hackers. In separate...

  • Posted September 21, 2015
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