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    Cinematizing Korea’s greatest mapmaker daunts top cast

    SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Yonhap) — Even before shooting started, historical film “Go-san-ja, Dae-dong-yeo-ji-do” daunted the directors and cast from the start, as the film explores the personal life of Korea’s most revered map maker. The film, set...

    • Posted August 9, 2016
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  • Google-Ads On Maps

    Google Maps directions may soon lead you to … more ads

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — You might start seeing more ads when getting directions from Google’s popular mapping service. The ads, called “promoted pins,” will highlight restaurants and other merchants located along your way. They’ll show up inside...

    • Posted May 24, 2016
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  • Steve Martino, center, director of "The Peanuts Movie," Sung Ji-yeon, left, lightening supervisor at Blue Sky Studios, and cartoonist Kim Poong take a selfie during a discussion about the upcoming animated feature based on Charles Schulz's comic strip "Peanuts" at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, on Oct. 15.
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    More Koreans mapping out career path as animators

    By Baek Byung-yeul As animation has emerged as a major cultural product in Korea, more people attempt to map out their career paths to become animators. For future aspiring animators, American animation director Steve Martino, who recently...

    • Posted October 27, 2015
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  • Koreans and Korean Americans calling for Google to return the naming of a disputed East Sea territory to Dokdo Island from Liancourt Rocks staged a flash mob at Pier 39 in San Francisco Saturday.

    SF-area Koreans call for Google to return Dokdo name to Maps

    Ahead of Dokdo Island Day this month, San Francisco-area Koreans and Korean Americans staged a flash mob in an effort to urge Google to change its naming of the disputed island. At Pier 39 Saturday, about 50...

    • Posted October 19, 2015
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  • The Aegis destroyer "King Sejong the Great" patrols seas off South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo on Jan. 1, 2015. (Yonhap)

    US State Department revises Korea map to include Dokdo

    WASHINGTON, March 16 (Yonhap) — The U.S. State Department revised a map of Korea on its website Monday to include a reference to South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo. The islets, which Japan has long claimed, had...

    • Posted March 16, 2015
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  • In this image made on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015 from an interactive graphic from Baidu, the Chinese Internet portal, lines tracing the trips of individual travelers provide a "heat map" of the massive migration home from the big cities ahead of China's Lunar New Year. The interactive graphic shows the brightest spokes emanating from eastern employment hubs Beijing, Shanghai and the southern nexus of Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dongguan. The lines are drawn from the locations of smartphones. (AP Photo/Baidu)

    ‘Heat map’ captures massive Chinese New Year migration

    BEIJING (AP) — This map of China’s Lunar New Year travel tells a story of massive migration home from the big city. The interactive, updating graphic posted online by the Chinese Internet portal Baidu shows a “heat...

    • Posted February 17, 2015
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  • A bird's-eye view of IKEA Korea's first South Korean store in Gwangmyeong, south of Seoul. It is scheduled to open on Dec. 18. (Yonhap)

    IKEA to stop selling “Sea of Japan” map, admits inflated prices

    By Lee Minji SEOUL (Yonhap) — IKEA Korea said Thursday it will stop selling a disputed map that had marked the water between South Korea and Japan only as “Sea of Japan” starting next year as it...

    • Posted December 4, 2014
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