All posts tagged "topstories"

  • independence fighters
    Remembering Korean independence fighters in America

    In some cases, entire families dedicated their lives to the movement. The five Kang brothers and four married couples were among those 200 in the US.  By Kim Chul-soo Seventy years have passed since Korea found independence from...

    • Posted August 14, 2015
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  • Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II during a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. Abe has expressed "profound grief" for all who perished in World War II in a statement marking the 70th anniversary of the country's surrender. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
    Japanese leader Abe stops short of apology for World War II

    TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged Friday that Japan inflicted “immeasurable damage and suffering” on innocent people in World War II, but stopped short of offering his own apology and said future generations of Japanese...

    • Posted August 14, 2015
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  • cuba
    Korea Times Project, part 3b: US Embassy reopens in Cuba

    Hyundai cars, Samsung smartphones easily spotted on streets of Havana By Kim Sang-mok HAVANA, CUBA — The flag of the United States was raised today for the first time in 54 years at the embassy reopening in...

    • Posted August 14, 2015
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  • The Korea Times' Kim Sang-mok -- the first reporter from a Korean American publication to visit the isolated country since the reopening of its doors in May -- in front of the soon-to-be-opened U.S. Embassy.
    Korea Times Project, part 3a: Reporting from Cuba

    In partnership with Bright Future Foundation to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Korean independence By Kim Sang-mok HAVANA, CUBA — For the first time in 54 years, the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, will open Friday at...

    • Posted August 13, 2015
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  • Danny Lee poses with the trophy after winning the Greenbrier Classic golf tournament at Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Sunday, July 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Chris Tilley)
    Almost quitting to winning, golfer Danny Lee steadily rises up world rankings

    By Brian Han Danny Lee is playing the best golf of his professional career and the numbers he’s putting up support his case. The South Korean-born New Zealander won his first career PGA Tour event in 2015....

    • Posted August 12, 2015
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  • Ban Ki-moon
    Ban Ki-moon fires UN peacekeeping chief in Central African Republic

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief has fired the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic over the force’s handling of dozens of sexual and other misconduct allegations, including rape and killing,...

    • Posted August 12, 2015
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  • From left: Locals Kim Min-ho, Baek Pil-hyun, Baek Hye-soon, daughter Baek Seung-ri stand in front of an arch made of whale bones.
    Korea Times Project, part 2: Growing Korean American community in Alaska

    By Kim Hyung-jae BARROW, ALASKA – Alaska — the Great Land, the Last Frontier — is the unlikely home to a growing Korean American community. The Korean population here started in the 1950s and ’60s with Korean war...

    • Posted August 11, 2015
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