All posts tagged "topstories"

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    KJ Choi foundation grants scholarships for 100 students

    By Nam Hyun-woo The KJ Choi Foundation, run by PGA Tour golfer Choi Kyung-joo, said Monday it has granted scholarships to 100 students. Fifty of those students won SKT-KJ Hope Scholarships ― which are co-funded by SK...

    • Posted March 2, 2015
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  • Rocket launch test in North Korea (KCNA/Yonhap)
    ROK-US joint exercises begin, with NK firing 2 missiles

    By Kang Seung-woo Seoul and Washington kicked off their annual joint Key Resolve and Foal Eagle military exercises Monday as part of efforts to improve the combined forces’ military capabilities to deter threats from North Korea. In...

    • Posted March 2, 2015
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  • Amy Yang answers questions after winning the LPGA Thailand. (Yonhap)
    Amy Yang makes it four in a row for Korea

    Wins LPGA Thailand by two strokes for her second career win on the tour Choi Na-yeon, Kim Sei-young, Lydia Ko and now Amy Yang. Only the golfers born in South Korea have won on the LPGA Tour this...

    • Posted March 1, 2015
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  • Students and local residents celebrate the opening of "Yunho Education Center," a school named after K-pop singer U-Know Yunho, in Bongo, northern Ghana, on Feb. 20. (Courtesy of Food for the Hungry)
    You Know Yunho Education Center in Ghana?

    A school named after U-Know Yunho of the K-pop duo TVXQ opened in a small town in Ghana. The singer and his fans donated money to help build the school.   By Jhoo Dong-chan A school named after...

    • Posted February 28, 2015
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  • Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant's "You Are (Not) Small" (Pippin)
    ‘You Are (Not) Small’ and neither is Anna Kang’s first children’s book

    Korean American author talks about her award-winning book inspired by her own experience growing up in Long Island By Tae Hong “I am not small,” a fuzzy bear-like creature says to a bigger critter in Anna Kang’s...

    • Posted February 27, 2015
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  • A cyclist rides by a sign at a gas station in Los Angeles posting the latest gas prices on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015. Gas prices in California soared overnight as a result of a combination of supply-and-demand factors worsened by the shutdown of two refineries that produce a combined 16 percent of the state’s gasoline. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
    Only in California: Gas prices soar as supply shrinks

    LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Gas prices are soaring in California in a classic example of supply and demand after an explosion stopped gasoline production at an Exxon Mobil refinery while another remains offline due to labor...

    • Posted February 27, 2015
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  • Ok So-ri, Hwang Soo-jung, Tak Jae-hoon
    S. Korea’s adultery law ruling brings attention to accused celebrities

    By Kim Se-jeong The Constitutional Court’s decision on Thursday to abolish the country’s 62-year-old anti-adultery law has drawn attention to celebrities entangled in adultery cases. TV celebrity Tak Jae-hoon was charged with adultery earlier this month. His...

    • Posted February 27, 2015
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