All posts tagged "Korea"

  • (Courtesy of Jambinai via Facebook)
    Korean indie bands to rock Liverpool festival

    SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) — South Korea will host a showcase of Korean indie rock bands during a large-scale international music festival in Britain next week, to help their advance to the European market, organizers said Monday....

    • Posted May 18, 2015
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  • (Yonhap)
    More elderly S. Koreans committing violent crimes

    Poverty, illness main reasons for growing elderly offenders By Chung Hyun-chae Violent crimes committed by elderly people have surged 40 percent in the last two years as the average age in society rises, according to Korean National...

    • Posted May 11, 2015
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  • (Korea Times file)
    $4.7 bln Lone Star case will begin next week

    Briton to handle $4.7 billion litigation against Korea By Jung Min-ho V.V. Veeder, a British national, has been appointed as the presiding arbitrator for a 5-trillion-won international litigation between the Korean government and Lone Star Funds, sources...

    • Posted May 5, 2015
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    Protesters gather in downtown LA to speak against Abe during visit

    By Brian Han Hundreds of activists gathered on Friday outside the Biltmore hotel in downtown Los Angeles to protest Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s lack of an outright apology for Japan’s World War II actions regarding sexual slavery....

    • Posted May 1, 2015
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    Paul McCartney in S. Korea for world tour

    SEOUL, May 1 (Yonhap) — Paul McCartney, a former member of the Beatles, arrived in South Korea Friday to hundreds of fans eager to see the rock ‘n’ roll icon. The 72-year-old is here for “Out There,”...

    • Posted May 1, 2015
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  • Members of South Korea's Disaster Response Team raise their fists in a show of solidarity at Incheon airport, west of Seoul, on May 1, 2015, before heading to Nepal to conduct relief and search and rescue operations in the earthquake-stricken country. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea sends 32 more aid workers to quake-hit Nepal

    SEOUL, May 1 (Yonhap) — A group of South Korean aid workers departed for Nepal Friday to help ongoing rescue and aid efforts following last week’s deadly earthquake, the Foreign Ministry said. The team, comprised of 15...

    • Posted May 1, 2015
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  • Senior students of a girls' high school in Seoul take a trial examination in preparation for November's College Scholastic Ability Test on June 12, 2014. (Yonhap)
    Suicide No. 1 cause of death for S. Korean teens, youths

    SEJONG, April 28 (Yonhap) — Suicide was the No. 1 cause of death among teens and young people in South Korea in 2013, with the suicide rate rising over the past decade, a report showed Tuesday. According...

    • Posted April 28, 2015
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