All posts tagged "South Korea"

  • People from all over the world have shown support for the victims in France. Mourners hold signs depicting victim's eyes during a rally in support of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly newspaper that fell victim to an terrorist attack, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, at Union Square in New York. French officials say 12 people were killed when masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of the periodical that had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
    S. Korea denounces terrorist attack in France

    By Kim Hyo-jin The government on Thursday denounced a terrorist attack carried out at the offices of a satirical newspaper in Paris. “The government finds it beyond deplorable that many lives were lost in a terrorist attack,”...

    • Posted January 8, 2015
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  • President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands during a trilateral summit with President Barack Obama at the U.S. embassy in The Hague. (Yonhap)
    U.S. calls for Japan to build ‘strong, constructive’ ties with S. Korea, China

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (Yonhap) — The United States called Tuesday for Japan to build “strong and constructive” relations with its neighbors as it welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plan to express remorse in a special statement...

    • Posted January 7, 2015
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  • A man walks through a salt farm on Sinui Island, south of Seoul, South Korea. Life as a salt-farm slave was so bad Kim Jong-seok sometimes fantasized about killing the owner who beat him daily. Freedom, he says, has been worse. In the year since police emancipated the severely mentally disabled man from the farm where he had worked for eight years, Kim has lived in a grim homeless shelter, preyed upon and robbed by other residents. He has no friends, no job training prospects or counseling, and feels confined and deeply bored. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Slaves freed from S. Korean salt farms face misery in shelters

    MOKPO, South Korea (AP) — Life as a salt-farm slave was so bad Kim Jong-seok sometimes fantasized about killing the owner who beat him daily. Freedom, he says, has been worse. In the year since police emancipated...

    • Posted January 6, 2015
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  • "Gangnam Blues" directed by Yoo Ha and starring Lee Min-ho and Kim Rae-won hits local screens on Jan. 21. (Courtesy of Showbox, Mediaplex Inc.)
    Most anticipated S. Korean films of 2015

    By Jason Bechervaise Last year saw a number of new filmmakers emerge such as July Jung (“A Girl at My Door”), Lee Do-yun (“Confession”) and Shim Sung-bo (“Haemoo”), but one of the striking features of 2015 is...

    • Posted January 6, 2015
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    S. Korean Ebola medic flown to Germany for anonymity after virus exposure

    BERLIN (AP) — A South Korean medic exposed to Ebola while working in West Africa has been flown to Germany for treatment because the patient’s anonymity would be better protected there, authorities in Berlin said Saturday. Doctors...

    • Posted January 6, 2015
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  • Children enjoy an event at a farm in Seoul to harvest sweet potatoes. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea sends sweet potatoes to N. Korea for ‘nutritional’ aid

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea approved the shipment of unprocessed sweet potatoes to North Korea last month by a civilian group here, an official said Monday, amid speculation that Seoul may be easing restrictions on humanitarian aid...

    • Posted January 5, 2015
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  • An investigator displays confiscated drugs at an office of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on Nov. 6. Police said they have arrested three people their 20s suspected of smuggling the drugs in from overseas and selling them near club districts in Seoul. (Yonhap)
    China executes fourth S. Korean drug offender since last year

    SEOUL/BEIJING (Yonhap) — China executed a South Korean national last week for smuggling and trading drugs, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday, following Beijing’s execution of three South Korean drug dealers five months earlier. Despite Seoul’s repeated pleas...

    • Posted January 5, 2015
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