All posts tagged "topstories"

  • Heavy traffic congestion occurs on southbound lanes of the Seoul-Busan Expressway in Hwaseong, south of Seoul, ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays on Feb. 17, 2015. (Yonhap)
    Mass exodus begins for Lunar New Year

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The annual migration of South Koreans for the Lunar New Year began Tuesday with millions heading to their hometowns ahead of the traditional holiday. Lunar New Year’s Day, which falls on Thursday this year,...

    • Posted February 17, 2015
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  • Justin Chon, middle, in Benson Lee's "Seoul Searching." (Brewery Hills Entertainment)
    ‘Seoul Searching’ with Justin Chon

    By Tae Hong If there’s one thing Justin Chon loves, it’s movies. For a second-generation Korean American kid growing up in a predominantly white Orange County neighborhood, movies — movies about cartoon rabbits, about Spanish treasure maps,...

    • Posted February 13, 2015
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  • Vladimir Putin, left, and Kim Jong-un. (Korea Times file)
    Kim Jong-un, Putin in constant contact

    By Kim Hyo-jin Russia’s top envoy to North Korea said in a media interview that Pyongyang and Moscow regularly exchange messages. “An active political dialogue is maintained at the highest level between Pyongyang and Moscow,” Russia’s Ambassador...

    • Posted February 13, 2015
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    Yankees have high hopes for top prospect Robert Refsnyder, from S. Korea

    By Kang Seung-woo Robert Refsnyder, a Korean-born adoptee, has been thrust into the limelight in the U.S., where he has been identified as a top prospect for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). According...

    • Posted February 12, 2015
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    Ex-Korean Air VP gets 1-year jail term over ‘nut rage’

    SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) — A Seoul court sentenced a former vice president of Korea Airlines Co. to one year in prison Thursday for obstructing aviation safety by ordering a taxiing plane to return to the gate...

    • Posted February 12, 2015
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    Ken Jeong to lead new ABC pilot ‘Dr. Ken’

    Ready to see another Korean American-led TV show? Welcome ABC’s “Dr. Ken,” starring Ken Jeong, to the club. The network gave the green light for a pilot to the comedy starring the “Community” actor, according to Deadline.com....

    • Posted February 11, 2015
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  • Damaged vehicles sit on Yeongjong Bridge in Incheon, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Two people were killed and at least 42 were injured on Wednesday after a pileup involving about 100 vehicles in foggy weather on the bridge near the Incheon International Airport, South Korean officials said.(AP Photo/Yonhap, Suh Myung-gon)
    2 dead, over 60 injured in 105-car pileup on bridge near Incheon airport

    INCHEO (Yonhap) — Two people were killed and more than 60 others were injured on Wednesday as more than 100 vehicles piled up on a bridge near Incheon International Airport in foggy weather, police said. The collision...

    • Posted February 11, 2015
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