All posts tagged "topstories"

  • sewol
    A year later, Sewol tragedy continues to haunt South Korea

    The ferry disaster that paralyzed South Korea met its one-year anniversary Thursday. On April 16, 2014, the passenger ferry boat Sewol sank near Jindo Island. It was carrying 476 people, a majority of them the junior class...

    • Posted April 15, 2015
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  • (Yonhap)
    Anti-corruption crusader under siege over alleged bribery

    SEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s anti-corruption crusader is under mounting pressure to quit amid a snowballing bribery scandal that rocked the government of President Park Geun-hye. Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo is accused of accepting 30...

    • Posted April 14, 2015
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  • In this picture taken on Wednesday, April 8, 2015, an alumna sits in a victim's chair inside a classroom at Danwon High School in Ansan, south of Seoul, South Korea. One year ago the ferry Sewol carrying 325 second-year students on a field trip to a southern island sank; only 75 survived. Their classrooms in this city about an hour south of Seoul have barely changed from the day they left for the trip. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Classrooms remain shrines for Sewol victims until ‘spiritual graduation’

    ANSAN, South Korea (AP) — Surrounded by the buzz of regular school life, a few classrooms at Danwon High School stand apart. They have become part shrine, part refuge, part confessional. One year ago a ferry carrying...

    • Posted April 14, 2015
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  • (Courtesy of Disney/Marvel Studios)
    ‘Avengers’ stars open up on sequel

    By Brian Han (BURBANK, Calif.) — The stars of Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” gathered together on Saturday to discuss the highly anticipated blockbuster before its May 1 release. The first installment of “The Avengers” grossed over...

    • Posted April 13, 2015
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  • Sewol
    A year after Sewol, concert pulls together LA Korean musicians

    By Tae Hong The tragedy that shook South Korea came on a spring day last year. One of the millions to its witness was Hwang Kwangsun, a Korean national who had moved stateside to study music about...

    • Posted April 13, 2015
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  • A flag flies over the Moroccan Embassy after a bomb placed in a garbage bin targeted the site in the capital, Tripoli. in Tripoli, Libya on Monday, April 13, 2015. There were no casualties in the attack, which was claimed by Libya's Islamic State affiliate. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Khalifa)
    2 dead in IS shooting at S. Korean Embassy in Libya

    TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Gunmen opened fire early Sunday at the local guards of the South Korean Embassy in the Libyan capital, killing one of them as well as a civilian who was in the area, a...

    • Posted April 13, 2015
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  • mama pak
    Mama Pak’s Kitchen does it with style

    By Tae Hong Hanna Pak is a do-it-yourself kind of cook. The relative food-world newbie may not have a culinary degree or the fancy tools of professional chefs, but she gets it done just fine with a...

    • Posted April 10, 2015
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