All posts tagged "New York"

  • (YCAP)
    NY Youth Community Action Project looking for volunteers

    New York City’s Korean Community Services and the Korea Times are looking for volunteers to sign up for the 14th annual Youth Community Action Project, an effort to bring together students with a desire to lend a...

    • Posted April 23, 2015
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  • (Courtesy photo, Choi Ji-soo)
    Missing NY woman found dead after four-day search

    A Korean woman in Highland, N.Y., who was missing for four days was found dead around 9 a.m. Tuesday morning by police. Choi Jisoo, 31, had been missing since April 16 and last seen at her Highland...

    • Posted April 23, 2015
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  • A never-before-seen photo of Yoo Si-tae's 1952 assassination attempt on South Korean President Syngman Rhee surfaced in New York. (Korea Times)
    Never-before-seen photo of assassination attempt on Syngman Rhee surfaces in NY

    A never-before-seen photo of an 1952 assassination attempt on South Korean President Syngman Rhee, kept for years by British intelligence before it was procured by a collector, has surfaced. In an exclusive reveal to the Korea Times...

    • Posted April 21, 2015
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  • Jung Young-hoon, former president of the Korean Dry Cleaners Association of New York, left, association Vice President Seo Jung-woo, center, and President Kim Sang-gyun, second from right, hand a "Clothing of Love" donation to Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, right, Monday.
    NY Korean dry cleaners donate 2,000 Clothes of Love to needy

    New York’s Korean American dry cleaners donated 80 boxes containing 2,000 pieces of clothing to the City of New York’s needy Monday. The garments, which are handed annually to the Brooklyn Borough, were gathered from six months...

    • Posted April 21, 2015
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  • Korean American beauty supply industry leaders in the Northeast U.S. gathered Monday to form NFBS.
    NE Korean American beauty supply leaders form new council

    Korean American leaders of the beauty supply industry in the Northeast region came together Monday to form a new council. Seven organizations, including the Beauty Supply Association of Greater New York and those from New Jersey, Washington,...

    • Posted April 21, 2015
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  • (Asian American Federation)
    Asian American Federation to honor two Koreans in gala

    By The Korea Times New York staff Two notable Korean Americans will be honored next month in the Asian American Federation’s annual Spirit of Asian America Gala 2015. Grace H. Park, acting prosecutor of Union County, N.J.,...

    • Posted April 16, 2015
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  • startup
    First Korean startup showcase to open in NYC

    By The Korea Times New York staff Startup entrepreneurs, get ready. Korean Startup Showcase NYC, the city’s largest festival for Korean startups, is coming for its opening year to Microsoft Technology Center in Times Square on April...

    • Posted April 8, 2015
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