All posts tagged "South Korea"

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    S. Korea’s overseas assistance tops $1.85 bln in 2014: OECD report

      SEJONG, April 8 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s overseas assistance that went out through the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reached US$1.85 billion in 2014, as the country moved to do its part to combat...

    • Posted April 8, 2015
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    S. Korea to develop, commercialize graphene by 2017

    SEJONG, April 6 (Yonhap) — South Korea will move to start producing and selling products using graphene by as early as 2017, becoming one of the world’s first countries to commercialize the new advanced material, the government...

    • Posted April 6, 2015
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    S. Korea, US to hold talks on N. Korean threats

    SEOUL, April 3 (Yonhap) — South Korea and the United States plan to hold high-level talks later this month to discuss ways to further boost coordination to deter and counter threats from North Korea, the defense ministry...

    • Posted April 3, 2015
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  • The royal seal of Deokjong (Yonhap)
    Royal seal returns to South Korea from Seattle for the first time in 70 years

    A treasured Korean artifact, the royal seal of Deokjong — most recently in the hands of the Seattle Art Museum — has returned home for the first time in about 70 years. The Cultural Heritage Administration held...

    • Posted April 1, 2015
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    Adoptee from South Korea faces deportation from US

    PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — More than three decades ago, a 3-year-old South Korean boy and his sister flew to the U.S. to become the adopted children of American citizens, but their life together didn’t last long. They...

    • Posted April 1, 2015
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  • FILE - This picture taken on Thursday, April. 24, 2014 and provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), U.N relief workers with blue helmets and vests stand next of residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk, right, who stand in line to receive aid food distributed by UNRWA, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria. On wednesday, April. 1, 2015 Islamic State militants infiltrated the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the Syrian capital marking the deepest foray yet by the extremist group into Damascus, seat of President Bashar Assad’s power, Syrian opposition activists and Palestinian officials said. (AP Photo/UNRWA, File )
    S. Korea donates $10 million toward Syria’s humanitarian crisis

    SEOUL, April 1 (Yonhap) — South Korea has decided to donate US$10 million to help millions of Syrians displaced by a prolonged civil war, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Tuesday. Seoul’s pledge came at a donors’ conference held...

    • Posted April 1, 2015
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  • Shown is a screen capture from the Twitter account of a South Korean teenager believed to have sneaked into Syria from Turkey recently to join the militant Muslim group Islamic State. (Yonhap file photo)
    S. Korea bans access to 139 ISIS-related online postings

    SEOUL, April 1 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s communications watchdog said Wednesday it has banned local access to 139 online postings related to the Islamic State (IS) over the past two months, following rising concerns after a South...

    • Posted April 1, 2015
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