• California Assembly OKs highest minimum wage in nation
• S. Korea unveils first graphic cigarette warnings
• US joins with South Korea, Japan in bid to deter North Korea
• 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
• Who knew? ‘The Walking Dead’ is helping families connect

All posts tagged "south"

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  Park’s chief of staff files libel suit against reporter

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye’s chief of staff filed a libel suit against a reporter of one of South Korea’s major newspapers, an official said Monday, the latest in a series of legal actions over a...

  • Posted December 8, 2014
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  Gas prices drop (?) to less than $6 per gallon in S. Korea

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korean oil refiners have lowered gasoline prices for four consecutive weeks and are set to announce another cut this week to reflect the plunge in crude prices from a global supply glut, the...

  • Posted December 8, 2014
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  [PT] Disfigured woman transformed into stunning beauty on Korean reality show

    Let Me In (“Me In” is a homonym for “beauty” in Korean) is a Korean reality TV series which features women and men with physical defects going under the knife to be transformed into someone...

  • Posted December 7, 2014
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  Lee Sang-hwa wins 500m sprints at World Cup meet

  BERLIN (AP) — Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea won the women’s 500-meter sprint at a World Cup speedskating meet on Friday in Berlin, Germany. Lee clocked 37.87 to beat Heather Richardson of the United States by 0.34...

  • Posted December 5, 2014
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  Retail prices found to be 200-800 percent higher than import prices in S. Korea

  By Choi Kyong-ae The retail prices of imported products are excessively high compared with the import price, the Korea Customs Service (KCS) said on Friday. Retail prices were found to be 200-800 percent higher than the import...

  • Posted December 5, 2014
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  S. Korea sends rescuers to join search for missing sailors

  SEOUL/BUSAN (Yonhap) — South Korea said Friday it has dispatched a rescue team to join the search for the missing crew members of a South Korean trawler that sank off Russia’s far east coast. The 1,753-ton Oryong...

  • Posted December 5, 2014
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  One-third of S. Korea’s plastic surgery patients ‘unsatisfied’

  By Lee Ji-hye Korea is known for its high rate of plastic surgery as well as the accessibility of such procedures. However, a recent consumer study shows that around one-third of those who go under the knife...

  • Posted December 4, 2014
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