All posts tagged "topstories"

  • Bad Family (SBS)
    If you like ‘Modern Family,’ try ‘Bad Family’

    Our Korean entertainment recommendations continue this week! By Tae Hong If you like “Modern Family,” try “Bad Family.” Hilariously dysfunctional families will always make for great television, and nothing currently does a better job of it in...

    • Posted August 1, 2014
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  • A man steps onto a casino bus on Roosevelt Ave. in Flushing, Queens, on July 31.
    For the homeless in NY, casino buses provide sanctuary

    By Ham Ji-ha A homeless man in his 80s gets off a casino bus on Wednesday in Flushing, Queens, a $20 bill clutched in his hand. Jang Jung-soo* lives in and makes money on the bus, where...

    • Posted August 1, 2014
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  • In this 2014 photo provided by the Samaritan's Purse aid organization, Dr. Kent Brantly, left, treats an Ebola patient at the Samaritan's Purse Ebola Case Management Center in Monrovia, Liberia. On Saturday, July 26, 2014, the North Carolina-based aid organization said Brantly tested positive for the disease and was being treated at a hospital in Monrovia. (AP Photo/Samaritan's Purse)
    [HOT LINKS] Ebola patients coming to America: CNN

    Source: Flight en route to Liberia to evacuate Americans infected with Ebola  – The fear began just after news broke Thursday that a long-range business jet with an isolation pod left the United States for Liberia, where...

    • Posted August 1, 2014
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  • hyuna
    HyunA “Red” hot

    Ranks No. 1 on Chinese music video site, Yin Yue Tai’s V-Chart, for four straight days   K-pop star HyunA wants her brand to be “hot,” and she is certainly suggestive, to say the least, in her new...

    • Posted July 31, 2014
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  • A South Korean students shows her palms with signs during a rally against the Israeli military operations in Gaza and the West Bank and wish for peace near the Israel Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Amnesty Int’l calls on S. Korea to stop arming Israel

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea should immediately halt the transfer of all weapons to Israel in light of the deadly conflict in the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 1,300 people and injured many more since...

    • Posted July 31, 2014
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  • These fishes are supposed to swim at the speed of 2.5 meters per second to collect water quality information, but tests showed that they could go as far as only 23 centimeters per second, (Yonhap)
    Korea’s robot fish project found to be failure: state auditor

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — A government project to check the water quality of the nation’s four refurbished rivers by using robotic fish has failed to meet its goal as the devices did not function properly, the state auditor...

    • Posted July 31, 2014
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  • A worker begins the task of cleaning up at least an inch of water covering the playing floor at Pauley Pavilion, home of UCLA basketball, after a broken 30-inch water main under nearby Sunset Boulevard caused flooding that inundated several areas of the UCLA campus in the Westwood section of Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)
    UCLA flood: Estimate doubles to 20 million gallons of water

    (CNS) – Utility crews struggled today to completely stop the flow of leaking water near a 30-inch riveted-steel pipe that ruptured north of the UCLA campus, sending 20 millions of gallons cascading onto the campus, and Department of Water and...

    • Posted July 31, 2014
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