All posts tagged "South Korea"

  • Guomao, Beijing (Courtesy of Jens Schott Knudsen via Flickr/Creative Commons)
    S. Korea becomes No. 2 foreign investor in China behind HK

    SEOUL, May 11 (Yonhap) — South Korea emerged as the second-largest foreign investor in China in the first quarter of this year, a report showed Monday, on expectations that local companies could bask in a bilateral free...

    • Posted May 11, 2015
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  • Participants release balloons to celebrate a countdown to the start of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Han Jong-chan)
    1,000-day countdown to 2018 PyeongChang Olympics

    SEOUL, May 11 (Yonhap) — Special festivities over the coming weekend will celebrate the 1,000-day countdown to the 2018 Winter Olympics in the eastern South Korean town of PyeongChang. The organizing committee for the Olympics announced Monday...

    • Posted May 11, 2015
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  • meat, drinking, cancer
    S. Koreans top list of colon cancer incidents

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff South Koreans’ incidence of colon cancer was found to be the highest in the world according to a recent study. Korea University Guro Hospital, World Health Organization (WHO) and the...

    • Posted May 8, 2015
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    Elderly outnumber children in Seoul for the first time

    By Kim Rahn Senior citizens in Seoul have outnumbered children for the first time, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday. As of April 30, there were 1,234,181 people 65 or over in the capital, slightly surpassing the...

    • Posted May 7, 2015
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  • A customs official lets a drug-sniffing dog check a package at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on May 7, 2015. (Yonhap)
    Amount of mailed illicit drugs hits record in S. Korea

    SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) — A record amount of drugs have been mailed to South Korea during the first three months of this year due to the brisk use of social networking services by dealers, customs authorities...

    • Posted May 7, 2015
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  • Lotte Group, South Korea's fifth-largest conglomerate, is mired in a family feud between the corporate founder's two sons who want to take over the leadership from their 93-year-old father, Shin Kyuk-ho. The retail and food giant has been building the Lotte World Tower in the southern Seoul to realize the founder's lifelong ambition, which is set to be the country's tallest structure upon completion. (Yonhap)
    City lifts construction ban on controversial Lotte skyscraper

    SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) — The Seoul municipal government on Thursday decided to lift its partial ban on the Lotte World Tower, nearly five months after it blocked usage of the disputed skyscraper and halted ongoing construction...

    • Posted May 7, 2015
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    8 of 10 elementary school students in Seoul receive private tutoring

    By Kim Se-jeong Eight out of 10 elementary school students in Seoul received private tutoring last year and each family spent an average of 356,000 won ($329) for the lessons, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG),...

    • Posted May 6, 2015
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