All posts tagged "topstories"

  • kang
    Top diplomat calls for ambassadors’ support to solve security challenges

    SEOUL, July 13 (Yonhap) — Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha called on foreign ambassadors based in Seoul on Thursday to help South Korea find a way to solve the gravest-ever security environment on the Korean Peninsula. “Challenges on...

    • Posted July 13, 2017
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  • car
    Hyundai to unveil new production hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in August

    SEOUL, July 12 (Yonhap) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Wednesday that it will unveil a new hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) next month to highlight its strong commitment to green automobiles. South Korea’s No. 1 carmaker...

    • Posted July 13, 2017
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  • From left, bacon carpaccio, pork jowl, chef’s bacon steak, bacon schnitzel, bacon sushi, eggplant rice and fresh pasta at Belly. Credit Alan Winslow for The New York Times
    Belly, a Korean Take on Pork, Opens in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    Off the Menu By FLORENCE FABRICANT New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/dining/belly-brooklyn-restaurant-openings.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share Headliner BELLY Billed as a bacon omakase, the tasting menu here is less about a breakfast strip than about pork belly, cured and uncured, and given a strong...

    • Posted July 11, 2017
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  • The new ferry boat between North Korea and Russia, arriving in Vladivostok last month. The ferry service comes as local businesses have started to use North Korean workers for low-cost labor. Credit James Hill for The New York Times
    North Koreans in Russia Work ‘Basically in the Situation of Slaves’

    By ANDREW HIGGINS New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/world/europe/north-korea-russia-migrants.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — Across Western Europe and the United States, immigrants from poorer countries, whether plumbers from Poland or farmhands from Mexico, have become a lightning rod for economic anxieties over...

    • Posted July 11, 2017
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  • North Korea
    No expectation from N.K.’s acceptance of Moon’s peace proposal: pro-N.K. paper

    SEOUL, July 11 (Yonhap) — A pro-North Korean newspaper in Japan said Tuesday that President Moon Jae-in should not expect a positive response from Pyongyang to his latest reconciliatory proposal, as Seoul is still not giving up...

    • Posted July 11, 2017
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  • Vietnam
    Vietnam’s South Korean Ghosts

    Heonik Kwon VIETNAM ’67 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/opinion/vietnam-war-south-korea.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share   The residents of Ha My, a village in central Vietnam, can tell many vivid stories about their war ghosts — their “invisible neighbors,” in the words of the local Taoist priest. The...

    • Posted July 11, 2017
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  • This March file photo shows an almost empty parking lot near Seongsan Sunrise Peak, one of the top tourist spots on South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju, as the number of Chinese visitors to South Korea decreased due to Beijing's economic retaliation over South Korea's planned deployment of a U.S. missile defense system, known as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, in the country. (Yonhap)
    China’s travel ban squeezing tourism, retail industries on Jeju

    JEJU, South Korea, July 9 (Yonhap) — The impact from China’s measure to place a ban on all group tours to South Korea in response to Seoul’s decision to deploy a U.S.-led missile system has remained felt...

    • Posted July 10, 2017
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