All posts tagged "topstories"

  • har
    Harvard, UNC sued over alleged discrimination against Asian applicants

    BOSTON (AP) — Affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been challenged in court. A lawsuit against Harvard alleges the university limits the number of Asian-Americans it admits...

    • Posted November 17, 2014
    • 1
  • Kim Ja-ok's memorial at Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital. (Yonhap)
    Actress Kim Ja-ok dies of cancer at 63

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Kim Ja-ok, an award-winning South Korean actress, died Sunday of lung cancer. She was 63 years old. Kim had starred in a series of hit films and television dramas since her debut in 1970....

    • Posted November 15, 2014
    • 9
  • Sujan-Feature-1024x858
    Korean Laker Girl Sujan Pang: Defying expectations

    By Brian Han Laker Girl Sujan Pang has been trying for years to secure her place as a dancer on arguably the most prestigious cheerleading squad in the sports world, and this season she was almost ready...

    • Posted November 13, 2014
    • 14
  • Former Arirang President Sohn Jie-Ae speaks inside the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism. (Cosmo Scharf)
    Former Arirang president: K-pop is fueling Korea

    By Tae Hong “When I was young, we’d tell people we were Japanese, because it was cool to be Japanese at the time,” the former president of South Korea’s only English-language government-affiliated network, Arirang TV, told a...

    • Posted November 13, 2014
    • 1
  • Lydia Ko
    Lydia Ko becomes youngest LPGA Rookie of the Year

    DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Lydia Ko has become the youngest player to win the LPGA Tour’s rookie of the year award. The 17-year-old Ko clinched the points-based award with three tournaments remaining on the LPGA Tour...

    • Posted November 13, 2014
    • 0
  • (Courtesy of Ki Hong Lee)
    ‘Maze Runner’ star Ki Hong Lee navigates his way through Hollywood

    By Tae Hong The latest Korean American actor to make a splash on the Hollywood scene isn’t a John, a Ken or a Daniel — he’s a Ki Hong, and if things keep going the way they...

    • Posted November 12, 2014
    • 6
  • The picture released by the European Space Agency ESA shows the Rosetta mission poster which is a combination of various images to illustrate the deployment of the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. from the Rosetta spacecraft. The image of the comet was taken with the navigation camera on Rosetta. On Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 the Philae lander will be detached from Rosetta to land on the comet. (AP Photo/ESA)
    Cosmic first: European spacecraft lands on comet

    DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — Landing with a bounce after traveling 4 billion miles, a European spacecraft made history Wednesday by successfully reaching the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet — a cosmic first designed to answer...

    • Posted November 12, 2014
    • 1