All posts tagged "topstories"

  • (Park Sang-hyuk/The Korea Times)
    California Republicans find a rising star in Young Kim

    California Republicans have found a rising star in freshly sworn-in Assemblywoman Young Kim, the only Korean American in the state assembly. In Sacramento, Kim met with the Republican leadership Tuesday, including State Senator Bob Huff and Assembly...

    • Posted December 3, 2014
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  • Oryong 501 (NEWSis)
    11 bodies from sunken S. Korean fishing boat recovered

    **This article has been updated. BUSAN/SEOUL (Yonhap) — Rescuers on Wednesday recovered 11 more bodies from the area where a South Korean fishing boat sank in the Bering Sea earlier this week, the ship’s owner said. The...

    • Posted December 3, 2014
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  • Assemblywoman Young Kim, third from left, during the swearing-in ceremony in Sacramento Monday. (Park Sang-hyuk/The Korea Times)
    Young Kim sworn into Calif. state assembly

    By Kim Hyung-jae SACRAMENTO —  Assemblywoman Young Kim attended the swearing in ceremony Monday inside the California state Capitol in Sacramento. Surrounded by 79 other new lawmakers who took their vow following the November general election, Kim...

    • Posted December 2, 2014
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  • Recycling Feature Photo
    US and S. Korea to hold joint recycling technology conference

    By Brian Han The Research & Development Center for Valuable Recycling (RDC) and their North American partner, Inkor Technologies (based in Santa Monica, CA) will be co-hosting a one day joint symposium on Recycling Technology, December 2nd,...

    • Posted December 1, 2014
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  • Oryong 501 (NEWSis)
    S. Korean fishing boat sinks in waters off Russia, dozens missing

    SEJONG (Yonhap) — A South Korean fishing boat sank Monday in the western Bering Sea, leaving at least one of its crew members dead and the fate of more than 50 others unknown, the South Korean government...

    • Posted December 1, 2014
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  • Scenes from "The Interview."
    N. Korea suspected of hacking attack on Sony Pictures: reports

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — Sony Pictures suspects hackers working on behalf of North Korea disabled its computer network in reprisal for the studio’s impending release of a comedy film about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim...

    • Posted November 30, 2014
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  • Comfort women memorial (Yonhap)
    Japan demands removal of comfort women statues

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Japan has demanded that South Korea remove statues set up at home and abroad to mark the victims of the Japanese Imperial Army’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, government sources...

    • Posted November 30, 2014
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