All posts tagged "South Korea"

  • Samsung is trying to move away from its heavy reliance on smartphone sales. (Courtesy of Samsung Electronics)
    Samsung begins $14.7 billion transition from smartphones to chips

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff Samsung Electronics Co. announced plans to build a $14.7 billion (15.6 trillion won) memory chip manufacturing plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Construction will begin in 2015 and the factory should...

    • Posted October 6, 2014
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  • Japanese foreign ministry director general Junichi Ihara leaves the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul after holding the first talks on the comfort women issue between South Korea and Japan on April 16, 2014. / Yonhap
    S. Korea, Japan agree to hold regular talks on sex slavery

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea and Japan agreed Wednesday to hold regular director general-level talks on the Japanese imperial army’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II in their first meeting on the contentious diplomatic...

    • Posted April 16, 2014
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  • Sewol, a 6,835-ton ferry boat, has left 284 unaccounted for and four dead. / Yonhap
    (UPDATE) South Korean ferry boat sinks; 290 missing, 6 dead

    Check here for further updates on the story. Updated at 4:59 p.m. PT: According to Yonhap, the incident may have occurred as a result of the ship veering into another course too abruptly, causing the bound cargo in...

    • Posted April 16, 2014
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  • [HOT LINKS] South Korea Has Fallen in Love with Cheese

    The price of U.S. cheese has jumped to a record high thanks in part to an appetite for pizza and junk food from emerging markets like South Korea. Koreans have developed a taste...

    • Posted April 4, 2014
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  • The magnitude 5.1 earthquake, centered about 100 km northwest of West Gyeongnyeolbi Archipelago off Taean, happened at around 4:48 a.m., according to the Daejeon Meteorological Office. (Yonhap)
    5.1 Earthquake hits Korea

    S. Korea’s third-strongest quake hits Taean area DAEJEON (Yonhap) — South Korea’s third-strongest earthquake since 1978 shook the Taean area in the western part of the country on Tuesday (KST), but there were no immediate reports of...

    • Posted April 1, 2014
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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)
    Abe’s charm fails to win over Park

    By Kim Tae-gyu THE HAGUE ― Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s charm offensive obviously failed to win over President Park Geun-hye. In a trilateral summit, mediated by U.S. President Barack Obama, the two met for the first...

    • Posted March 26, 2014
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  • U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, right, shakes hands with South Korea's Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin during their bilateral meeting in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian/Yonhap)
    Decision on OPCON transfer unlikely this year

    By Kang Seung-woo South Korea and the United States are unlikely to set a specific date this year for the transfer of wartime operational control (OPCON), said a government official, Tuesday. The OPCON handover from Washington to...

    • Posted March 25, 2014
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