All posts tagged "topstories"

  • President Barack Obama speaks in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, April 16, 2015, during a Champions of Change event highlighting issues important to working families. Sanding on stage with the president are people that have championed working families. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
    Obama praises S. Korea for paying teachers as much as doctors, engineers

    WASHINGTON, April 16 (Yonhap) — U.S. President Barack Obama has praised South Korea’s education system again, saying teachers in Korea are paid as much as doctors and engineers. “My sister was a teacher, and so I know...

    • Posted April 16, 2015
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    The Chicago Fathers Choir goes from tuxes to genuine talent

    In July 2012, a group of middle-aged Korean American fathers in Chicago came together to sing, and to find new hope and courage within the music. The Chicago Fathers Choir continues — the 31-strong men’s choir faces...

    • Posted April 16, 2015
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  • Finance Minister Choi Kyung-whan (L) and World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim poses for photo after signing an MOU outlining South Korea's support for infrastructure building in the developing world in Washington on April 15, 2015. (NEWSis)
    S. Korea pledges $300 mln to World Bank’s developing nation program

    SEJONG, April 16 (Yonhap) — South Korea has pledged US$300 million to the World Bank for its program to build critical infrastructure in developing countries and deal with their environmental and energy issues, the government said Thursday....

    • Posted April 16, 2015
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    A year later, Sewol tragedy continues to haunt South Korea

    The ferry disaster that paralyzed South Korea met its one-year anniversary Thursday. On April 16, 2014, the passenger ferry boat Sewol sank near Jindo Island. It was carrying 476 people, a majority of them the junior class...

    • Posted April 15, 2015
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    Anti-corruption crusader under siege over alleged bribery

    SEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s anti-corruption crusader is under mounting pressure to quit amid a snowballing bribery scandal that rocked the government of President Park Geun-hye. Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo is accused of accepting 30...

    • Posted April 14, 2015
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  • In this picture taken on Wednesday, April 8, 2015, an alumna sits in a victim's chair inside a classroom at Danwon High School in Ansan, south of Seoul, South Korea. One year ago the ferry Sewol carrying 325 second-year students on a field trip to a southern island sank; only 75 survived. Their classrooms in this city about an hour south of Seoul have barely changed from the day they left for the trip. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Classrooms remain shrines for Sewol victims until ‘spiritual graduation’

    ANSAN, South Korea (AP) — Surrounded by the buzz of regular school life, a few classrooms at Danwon High School stand apart. They have become part shrine, part refuge, part confessional. One year ago a ferry carrying...

    • Posted April 14, 2015
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    ‘Avengers’ stars open up on sequel

    By Brian Han (BURBANK, Calif.) — The stars of Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” gathered together on Saturday to discuss the highly anticipated blockbuster before its May 1 release. The first installment of “The Avengers” grossed over...

    • Posted April 13, 2015
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