All posts tagged "topstories"

  • Kang Ho dong Baejung brings back memories with their old-time lunch pack called doshirak.
    Six Korean restaurants among L.A. Times’ top 101

                        Six Korean restaurants were among the top 101 chosen by the Los Angeles Times’ Jonathan Gold as the best of 2014 in his second annual list. The...

    • Posted May 20, 2014
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  • Ryu Hyun-jin is scheduled to pitch Wednesday.
    Ryu Hyun-jin to return Wednesday

    By Lee Kyutae The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Korean left-hander Ryu Hyun-jin will get back on the mound Wednesday in New York. It’ll be his first start in 24 days. The 27-year-old starting pitcher has been on the...

    • Posted May 19, 2014
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    Park will dismantle Coast Guard

    Two agencies to be launched; April 16 named as Safety Day By Kang Seung-woo President Park Geun-hye made a televised apology to the nation Monday for the flawed emergency response to the April 16 sinking of the...

    • Posted May 19, 2014
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  • In this Saturday, May 17, 2014 photo, a North Korean official apologizes in front of families of victims of an accident at an apartment construction site and local residents in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korean officials offered a rare public apology for the collapse of the apartment building under construction in Pyongyang, which a South Korean official said was believed to have caused considerable casualties that could mean hundreds might have died. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
    North Korea apologizes after apartment building collapse

    (Yonhap) — An apartment building under construction in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang has collapsed, causing an unspecified number of casualties, the state media reported Sunday. The North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the accident...

    • Posted May 18, 2014
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    Head over heels for Jen Chae’s ‘From Head to Toe’

    Korean American transplant from midwest is the face and personality behind the hit YouTube beauty channel with over 800,000 subscribers  By Julie Carlson Growing up, Jen Chae, creator of a makeup blog and YouTube channel “From Head to Toe,”...

    • Posted May 16, 2014
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    Asia Society to honor Ambassador Sung Kim at gala

    By Tae Hong Sung Y. Kim, the U.S. ambassador to Korea, will be one of those honored at Asia Society Southern California’s annual gala dinner on May 19 in Los Angeles. Ambassador Kim, who is the first...

    • Posted May 16, 2014
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    Korean check kiting scheme costs banks $15 million

    FBI arrests 12 and three more are considered fugitives  Twelve people have been arrested and three are missing after a large-scale “bustout” scheme of check kiting that has cost major financial institutions at least $15 million. The...

    • Posted May 15, 2014
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