All posts tagged "New York"

  • The New York-based Nanum Band performed inside Daedong Manor for its two-year anniversary Saturday.
    NY ‘sharing’ music group helps student dreams

    By The Korea Times New York staff An amateur New York music group, the Nanum Band, held its two-year anniversary inside Daedong Manor in Flushing Saturday. The band is comprised of 20 locals who seek to inspire...

    • Posted November 30, 2015
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  • Yoo Dae-geun, president of the New York Korean American Supermarkets Association, helps hand out free Thanksgiving meals to seniors Wednesday.
    Korean Americans celebrate Thanksgiving with goodwill

    By Tae Hong Korean American communities around the country found Thanksgiving the perfect holiday for goodwill. In New York, a grocers’ association provided free turkey meals to local Korean elderly on Wednesday. Inside senior centers in Flushing...

    • Posted November 27, 2015
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    Traditional folk arts group coming to NY

    Flushing Town Hall and the Korean Cultural Service New York are bringing South Korea’s master “kkuns,” performers of traditional dance and music, for a night of cultural extravagance Dec. 11. The Dongrak Performing Arts Group is a...

    • Posted November 27, 2015
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  • New York Assemblyman Ron Kim, fourth from left, Korean associations and churches delivered 300 turkeys to volunteer groups Tuesday for Thanksgiving.
    NY Koreans deliver 300 turkeys to volunteer groups

    By The Korea Times New York staff New York Assemblyman Ron Kim, community organizations and churches delivered 300 turkeys to New York-area non-profit volunteer groups Tuesday in time for Thanksgiving. Funding was provided by the Korean American...

    • Posted November 25, 2015
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  • Information booths, lectures and an analysis of the new SAT through practice test review were main draws.
    NY Korean, Chinese communities collaborate on college fair

    By The Korea Times New York staff The New York Korean American and Chinese American communities will come together for a large-scale college fair, to open Feb. 20 next year. The effort will be the first of...

    • Posted November 24, 2015
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  • Kim Youn-sam
    Coast to coast, Korean American communities remember former President Kim Young-sam

    By Tae Hong The Sunday death of former South Korean president and democratic leader Kim Young-sam at age 87 has spurred an outpouring of mourning and memorials across Korean American communities, from coast to coast. In Los...

    • Posted November 23, 2015
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  • Ron Book, chairman of the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust, center, kneeling, talks with a homeless couple sleeping under a bridge during the Point In Time Homeless Census, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, in Miami. The couple agreed to be sent to a shelter for the night. As part of a federal push, Miami-Dade County is aiming to end veteran homelessness by 2015, and chronic homelessness by 2016. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
    Homeless population increases in Los Angeles

    Homelessness in Los Angeles has increased 20 percent in the last year. According to a report by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department last Friday, there were over half a million — 564,708 — homeless people...

    • Posted November 23, 2015
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