All posts tagged "topstories"

  • Former Arirang President Sohn Jie-Ae speaks inside the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism. (Cosmo Scharf)
    Former Arirang president: K-pop is fueling Korea

    By Tae Hong “When I was young, we’d tell people we were Japanese, because it was cool to be Japanese at the time,” the former president of South Korea’s only English-language government-affiliated network, Arirang TV, told a...

    • Posted November 13, 2014
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  • Lydia Ko
    Lydia Ko becomes youngest LPGA Rookie of the Year

    DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Lydia Ko has become the youngest player to win the LPGA Tour’s rookie of the year award. The 17-year-old Ko clinched the points-based award with three tournaments remaining on the LPGA Tour...

    • Posted November 13, 2014
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  • (Courtesy of Ki Hong Lee)
    ‘Maze Runner’ star Ki Hong Lee navigates his way through Hollywood

    By Tae Hong The latest Korean American actor to make a splash on the Hollywood scene isn’t a John, a Ken or a Daniel — he’s a Ki Hong, and if things keep going the way they...

    • Posted November 12, 2014
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  • The picture released by the European Space Agency ESA shows the Rosetta mission poster which is a combination of various images to illustrate the deployment of the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. from the Rosetta spacecraft. The image of the comet was taken with the navigation camera on Rosetta. On Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 the Philae lander will be detached from Rosetta to land on the comet. (AP Photo/ESA)
    Cosmic first: European spacecraft lands on comet

    DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — Landing with a bounce after traveling 4 billion miles, a European spacecraft made history Wednesday by successfully reaching the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet — a cosmic first designed to answer...

    • Posted November 12, 2014
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  • (The Korea Times / Park Sang-hyuk)
    Gas prices dip below $3 in LA County

    In Los Angeles’ Koreatown, an Arco gas station on the corner of Western Ave. and Melrose Ave. advertised regular unleaded gasoline for $2.99 on Nov. 11. This is just one of many locations in the area that...

    • Posted November 12, 2014
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  • Kim Kwang-hyun (NEWSis)
    SK Wyverns accept $2 million bid for pitcher Kim Kwang-hyun

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The South Korean baseball club SK Wyverns announced Wednesday they have accepted a US$2 million bid for their posted left-hander Kim Kwang-hyun. The San Diego Padres had won the bidding for the pitcher in...

    • Posted November 12, 2014
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  • (Yonhap)
    Captain of capsized ferry gets 36 years in prison

    GWANGJU (Yonhap) — A district court on Tuesday sentenced the captain of the sunken ferry Sewol to 36 years in prison for abandoning passengers at the time of the deadly sinking. Lee Joon-seok, however, was acquitted of...

    • Posted November 10, 2014
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