All posts tagged "topstories"

  • banabe
    UN chief urges S. Korea, Japan, China, to reconcile

    TOKYO (AP) — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the leaders of Japan, China and South Korea on Monday to work harder for reconciliation over their wartime past to ensure peace and stability in the region. In...

    • Posted March 16, 2015
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  • Lemon Tree Cafe at Madang Plaza in Koreatown, Los Angeles. (Lee Woo-su/Korea Times)
    New It places for parents: Korean-style kid cafe, photo studios

      Korean-style kid cafes and baby photo studios have become new It places for Koreatown parents. At Lemon Tree Cafe in Madang Plaza, parents can enjoy food and drinks while children spend time in a separate play...

    • Posted March 14, 2015
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  • Yoo Jae-suk (Yonhap)
    The most beloved celebrity in South Korea? Yoo are the man!

    According to the latest Gallup Korea survey Ever wonder which celebrities are most beloved in South Korea? Gallup Korea has an answer — its latest poll, conducted in October last year, asked 1,700 Koreans over the age...

    • Posted March 13, 2015
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  • daniel
    Daniel Henney set on pushing open Hollywood’s doors

    By Tae Hong Before he led television shows and films, before he landed magazine covers, before he rose to stardom as a sex symbol in his mother’s home country of South Korea, Daniel Henney was a kid...

    • Posted March 11, 2015
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  • A pink
    A Pink, Bada, Im Tae-kyung coming to Hollywood Bowl for KTMF

    By Tae Hong Are you ready to be Pink-ified? The bubblegum lovelies of K-pop girl group A Pink will join the 13th Korea Times Music Festival at the Hollywood Bowl on May 2 alongside vocalists Bada and...

    • Posted March 10, 2015
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  • Actor Ken Jeong poses for a portrait during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Jeong says that much of the inspiration for his memorably angry Mr. Chow character in "The Hangover" movie was a reaction to his wife's fight against breast cancer at the time. He explained in a short film to accompany the upcoming PBS documentary, "Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies," that he was caring for his wife, Tran Ho, and their one-year-old twins as she was undergoing chemotherapy. "Tran encouraged me to do it," Jeong said in an interview. "She thought I was suffering from caregiver burnout." (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)
    Ken Jeong says ‘Hangover’ role inspired by wife

    NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Ken Jeong says that much of the inspiration for his memorably angry Mr. Chow character in “The Hangover” movie was a reaction to his wife’s fight against breast cancer at the time....

    • Posted March 9, 2015
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  • Class at women's university in South Korea (NEWSis)
    Women’s universities in South Korea are fighting for survival

    By Lee Kyung-min Women’s universities in South Korea are losing their edge as gender-oriented ivory towers, with some of them considering recruiting male students. One of the biggest challenges for them is the employment rate of graduates,...

    • Posted March 9, 2015
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