All posts tagged "South Korea"

  • LPGA Koreans
    Korea-born players winning every LPGA, LET event in 2015

    By Brian Han All eight tournaments on both the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour (LET) this season have yielded seven different winners, but they all have one thing in common. Every winner was born in...

    • Posted March 16, 2015
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  • President Park Geun-hye talks to stars and producers of box-office hit movie "Ode to My Father" and other officials before watching the movie at a theater in Seoul on Jan. 28, 2015. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea to create 40 billion won ($35 million) fund for local film industry

    SEOUL, March 16 (Yonhap) — Lotte Group, South Korea’s fifth-largest family-controlled conglomerate, will play a key role in creating a fund worth 40 billion won (US$35 million) to help develop the country’s film industry, the presidential office...

    • Posted March 16, 2015
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  • banabe
    UN chief urges S. Korea, Japan, China, to reconcile

    TOKYO (AP) — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the leaders of Japan, China and South Korea on Monday to work harder for reconciliation over their wartime past to ensure peace and stability in the region. In...

    • Posted March 16, 2015
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  • Lee Sang-deok (L), Seoul's chief delegate to the talks on Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, enters a conference room at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on March 16, 2015. At right is his Japanese counterpart, Junichi Ihara. The sides are seeking to improve their icy ties as this year marks the 50th anniversary of the normalization of their bilateral relations. The year also marks the 70th anniversary of Seoul's liberation from Tokyo's colonial rule in 1945. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea, Japan to hold sex slavery talks

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea and Japan were to hold talks on Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II on Monday as the two historical rivals make efforts to improve their strained ties in...

    • Posted March 16, 2015
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  • dodgers
    [Forbes] Potential sale of stake in Dodgers to S. Koreans values team at $3 bln

      A potential deal in which a South Korean sovereign fund would invest in the Los Angeles Dodgers places a $3 billion valuation on the Major League Baseball team TISI +0.56%, according to two sources with...

    • Posted March 13, 2015
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    S. Korea cuts interest rate to record low

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea unexpectedly lowered its benchmark interest rate Thursday to a record low of 1.75 percent, joining central banks from Europe to India in efforts to revitalize sluggish economic growth. The quarter...

    • Posted March 12, 2015
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  • (Yonhap)
    S. Korean box-office plunges in February

    SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s cinema ticket revenues and the number of moviegoers fell drastically in February from a year ago, although it had the five-day Lunar New Year holiday, a market tracker said Monday....

    • Posted March 9, 2015
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