All posts tagged "topstories"

  • lena ahn black
    Interview: Former JYP trainee Lena Ahn is headed to Seoul for Miss Korea crown

    By Tae Hong Think K-pop idols. All that fame, the flash, the fans — it’s the gig millions crave. Agencies hungry for a piece of Hallyu cash number in the dozens; trainees hundreds, maybe thousands. It’s the...

    • Posted June 19, 2015
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  • celeb
    Top 7 list of parents-loving Korean celebrities

    Won Bin, Suzy top the list  By Ko Dong-hwan Which Korean celebrities give back to their parents the most? A TV entertainment show has revealed a list of seven who have been generous helping their parents before...

    • Posted June 19, 2015
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  • henney. multi, mixed
    ‘White-Asians’ make up 4% of US biracial population, 6 of 10 feel discriminated against

    6.9 percent of adults in the U.S. have two or more races in their ethnic background and approximately four percent of that group have both white and Asian backgrounds according to a new study. The statistics gathered by...

    • Posted June 16, 2015
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  • San Diego's large Asian American population is debunking the model minority myth according to a new report. Students at San Diego State University students walk on campus in San Diego. (AP)
    Report proves model minority myth is just a myth

    By Brian Han Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in Southern California’s San Diego County, and more and more of them fall outside of the model minority myth says a new report. “Often times, people...

    • Posted June 16, 2015
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  • ppo1
    Can Korean animation break into the US market?

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff Do Korean animated characters like Pororo and the Larvas have what it takes to break into the American market? It was the question asked by the first “K-Characters in LA”...

    • Posted June 15, 2015
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  • A Korean soldier checks a person for MERS symptoms (Yonhap)
    WHO: MERS not spreading outside S. Korea hospitals

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The MERS virus in South Korea, which has killed 14 people and infected nearly 140 in the largest outbreak outside the Middle East, hasn’t spread outside hospitals among the wider community or...

    • Posted June 14, 2015
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  • Keiji Fukuda, left, the WHO's assistant director-general of health security, listens to (Newsis)
    WHO says MERS in S. Korea ‘large and complex’

    SEOUL/SEJONG, June 13 (Yonhap) — The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Saturday that South Korea may have to brace for a drawn-out battle against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), saying that its outbreak is “large and complex.”...

    • Posted June 13, 2015
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