• California Assembly OKs highest minimum wage in nation
• S. Korea unveils first graphic cigarette warnings
• US joins with South Korea, Japan in bid to deter North Korea
• LPGA golfer Chun In-gee finally back in action
• S. Korea won’t be top seed in final World Cup qualification round
• US men’s soccer misses 2nd straight Olympics
• US back on track in qualifying with 4-0 win over Guatemala
• High-intensity workout injuries spawn cottage industry
• CDC expands range of Zika mosquitoes into parts of Northeast
• Who knew? ‘The Walking Dead’ is helping families connect

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  Korean fortune-telling: Tradition backed by statistics

  By Tae Hong The most visible Korean saju consultant — yes, fortune teller — in Los Angeles is a slight woman named Ji-yoon who lives and works out of a white two-story house off a sloping Koreatown...

  • Posted December 9, 2014
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  Chief Beck aims to transform LAPD into a department with citizens’ trust

  By Lee Woosu Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck, a 39-year veteran of the force who first took on the post as chief in 2009, said last Friday he looks to transform the LAPD into a department...

  • Posted December 9, 2014
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  Int’l aid to N. Korea falls sharply as country’s image worsens: report

  (Yonhap) — Humanitarian aid to North Korea fell sharply over the past decade as nuclear saber rattling and consequent sanctions worsened the international perception of the country, a report by a state-run think tank said Tuesday in...

  • Posted December 9, 2014
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  Columbia University’s ‘Talent Complex’ unites Korean students through music

  By Brian Han Among the 30 percent of “Asian/Asian Americans” that are a part of Columbia University’s undergraduate student body, there is a unique Korean sub-community named Talent Complex, also known as 개성공단 (geh-sung-gong-dahn) in Korean. At first glance, the...

  • Posted December 8, 2014
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  South Korean elected ICC judge

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — Chung Chang-ho, a South Korean pre-trial judge in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, has been elected as a judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC), officials at Seoul’s foreign ministry said Tuesday. Chung, 47, won...

  • Posted December 8, 2014
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  2 large fires break out in LA

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two raging fires in Los Angeles destroyed a massive residential complex under construction, heavily damaged a building undergoing renovations, and snarled rush hour traffic while raining ash over a large area early Monday....

  • Posted December 8, 2014
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  Korean TV channels quit YouTube

  By Kim Seung-yeon SEOUL (Yonhap) — Two South Korean broadcasting companies have broken a partnership with YouTube and joined with local Web portals to offer video content, as they seek greater control over their online material in...

  • Posted December 7, 2014
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