- 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