All posts tagged "topstories"

  • Ok Hwa Boyd, center, with two daughters (Fox40 capture)
    Happy Mother’s Day! Korean mother hits $1M jackpot on Mother’s Day

    A Northern California mother won the big bucks, a whopping $1 million, at a casino on Mother’s Day. Ok Hwa Boyd, a Korean American from Sacramento, Calif., was celebrating Sunday at Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln when...

    • Posted May 12, 2015
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  • Ken Jeong
    ABC picks up ‘Dr. Ken’ for a full season

      ABC picked up “Dr. Ken” for a full season on Friday, which means that there will be two Asian American families featured on primetime network television next season according to The Wrap. The show will feature...

    • Posted May 11, 2015
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  • Pittsburgh Pirates' Jung Ho Kang watches the flight of the ball after hitting a solo home run off St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Tyler Lyons in the first inning of a baseball game, Sunday, May 10, 2015, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
    Kang Jung-ho, Choo Shin-soo heating up!

    Pirates’ Korean IF hits 2nd home run of the season and Rangers OF belts 2 doubles to extend hitting streak to 10 games (Yonhap) — Pittsburgh Pirates’ Korean infielder Kang Jung-ho hit his first home run at home...

    • Posted May 10, 2015
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  • Students wash their parents' feet at Dongsan High School in the central city of Daejeon on May 8, 2015, as the school hold a Parents' Day event to show their affection for their caretakers. (Yonhap)
    Happy Mother’s Day!

    South Koreans celebrated Parents’ Day two days ahead of Mother’s Day in the U.S.  Here are some photos.    

    • Posted May 10, 2015
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  • meat, drinking, cancer
    S. Koreans top list of colon cancer incidents

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff South Koreans’ incidence of colon cancer was found to be the highest in the world according to a recent study. Korea University Guro Hospital, World Health Organization (WHO) and the...

    • Posted May 8, 2015
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  • (Yonhap)
    Elderly outnumber children in Seoul for the first time

    By Kim Rahn Senior citizens in Seoul have outnumbered children for the first time, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday. As of April 30, there were 1,234,181 people 65 or over in the capital, slightly surpassing the...

    • Posted May 7, 2015
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  • Got7
    Interview: A year after debut, Got7 looks to the top

    By Tae Hong When’s the first time you heard of Got7? Was it in late 2013, when JYP Entertainment announced it would debut its first boy band in six years? Was it last year, when member Jackson...

    • Posted May 7, 2015
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