All posts tagged "topstories"

  • crime
    Overseas Korean citizens victimized by crimes and accidents hit all-time-high

    According to data released by S. Korean National Assembly Rep. Choi Jae-cheon Overseas Korean citizens victimized by crimes and accidents have seen a 11.4-percent increase, from 4,458 cases in 2011 to an all-time-high 4,967 last year, according to...

    • Posted July 10, 2014
    • 0
  • Hong
    Hong Myung-bo quits

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Hong Myung-bo, the embattled head coach of the South Korean men’s national football team, announced his resignation from the post on Thursday (KST) in the wake of the country’s winless World Cup, a stunning...

    • Posted July 9, 2014
    • 0
  • A student takes a high school English exam in Seoul. (Kim Joo-sung / The Korea Times)
    English divide deepens in Seoul

    By Sung Yeon-ju High school seniors in affluent areas of Seoul have widened the gap with their counterparts in poor areas in English test scores on the standardized college entrance exam, a recent study shows. On the...

    • Posted July 9, 2014
    • 1
  • Brazil soccer fans cry as they watch their team get beat during a live telecast of the semi-finals World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Germany, inside the FIFA Fan Fest area on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, July 08, 2014. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
    7-1 Shocker in Brazil

    Germans reach their eighth World Cup final as the host nation suffers its worst loss since 1920 BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — Germany poured in the goals Tuesday to hand Brazil its heaviest World Cup loss ever...

    • Posted July 8, 2014
    • 0
  • yeot
    ‘Keep Hong Myung-bo? Have some more yeot!’

    A box full of yeot delivered to Korean Football Association in second yeot raid “Keep Hong Myung-bo? Have some more yeot!” This time, a box full of yeot (Korean toffee) was delivered to the Korean Football Association’s...

    • Posted July 8, 2014
    • 0
  • judy joo
    Chef Judy Joo makes Korean food simple

    By Tae Hong Perilla leaves sprouting in the backyard garden, seaweed drying in the garage and tripe soaking in the laundry room were just the norm inside Judy Joo’s Summit, New Jersey home growing up. “I have...

    • Posted July 7, 2014
    • 2
  • A squad of North Korean cheerleaders arrive at Incheon International Airport on Aug. 31, 2005, to attend the 16th Asian Athletics Championships in Incheon. North Korea said on July 7, 2014, it will dispatch a cheerleading contingent to the Incheon Asian Games in September along with its athletes to help improve inter-Korean relations and to show Pyongyang's commitment to unification. (Yonhap)
    North Korea to send cheerleading squad to Incheon Asian Games

    (Yonhap) — North Korea will dispatch a cheering squad to the upcoming Asian Games to be held in the South Korean city of Incheon in September, the country said Monday in a renewed conciliatory gesture toward Seoul....

    • Posted July 7, 2014
    • 0