All posts tagged "Korean"

  • (Park Sang-hyuk / The Korea Times Los Angeles)
    ‘Super Doctor’ brings his surgical specialty to UCLA

    Dr. Jeffrey Suh specializes in complex sinus disease, endoscopic sinus surgery By Brian Han When Dr. Jeffrey Suh, M.D., played video games growing up, neither he nor his parents could have imagined that it would help him perform...

    • Posted December 23, 2014
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    Korean language usage by Korean Americans on the decline

    Korean language use by Korean Americans is on the decline, according to a report released Sunday by the Research Center for Korean Community at Queens College in New York. About 51 percent of second-generation Korean Americans speak...

    • Posted December 16, 2014
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  • Shin Eun-mi speaks to reporters before facing police questioning over her alleged pro-North Korean remarks on Dec. 14, 2014. (Yonhap)
    Korean American resummoned over alleged pro-NK remarks

    SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Yonhap) — Police summoned again a Korean-American woman Monday for questioning over her alleged remarks sympathetic to the communist regime during a series of on-stage talk shows. Shin Eun-mi arrived at the Seoul Metropolitan...

    • Posted December 15, 2014
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    Korean American seniors’ income lowest of all Asian Americans

    According to a report released by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), Korean Americans 65 years and over had an income average of $21,382 — the lowest among all 27  documented Asian populations in America. This...

    • Posted December 11, 2014
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  • Korean-American Shin Eun-mi, 53, holds a press conference Tuesday in central Seoul, where she lashed out at conservative media outlets. [NEWSIS]
    Korean American banned from leaving country for alleged pro-NK talk shows

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — A Korean American woman has been temporarily banned from leaving South Korea amid an investigation into her alleged pro-North Korean remarks during a series of talk shows, police said Thursday. The move comes after...

    • Posted December 11, 2014
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    ‘Big Hero 6′ nominated for Golden Globe

    Disney’s “Big Hero 6″ has received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. The film features two Korean American actors, Daniel Henney (“Tadashi Hamada”) and Jamie Chung (“GoGo Tomago”) and centers around a 14-year-old boy who...

    • Posted December 11, 2014
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  • The ___'s Kang Jung-sook, left, Kim Sook-young, Ahn Ji-eun.
    Annual Korean spelling bee to open in Glendale

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff An annual Korean spelling bee is coming back to Glendale, Calif., for competing students studying the Korean language. The Korean Institute of Southern California’s Glendale branch will hold its 6th...

    • Posted December 10, 2014
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