All posts tagged "topstories"

  • tour
    National disgrace on tour

    By Baek Byung-yeul, Kwon Ji-youn Last year, a POSCO Energy executive was fired after physically assaulting a flight attendant for serving ramen noodles that he claimed were not fully cooked. Criticism mounted against him even after he...

    • Posted July 16, 2014
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  • fox
    20th Century Fox to build theme park in Korea

    By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL (Yonhap) — Twentieth Century Fox will build a new theme park in South Korea by 2018 to attract Asian tourists with the company’s film and television brands, its licensing unit said Wednesday. Twentieth...

    • Posted July 16, 2014
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  • Salina Yoon at a book signing event at Children's Book World, in Los Angeles, on June 28th, 2014. (Courtesy of Salina Yoon)
    Orders keep coming in for Salina Yoon’s children’s books

    By Tae Hong Salina Yoon’s 5-year-old son went outside to play one day and returned home with a pinecone. It should have a box to live in, he said, and will you please cut a little blanket...

    • Posted July 15, 2014
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  • missk2
    2014 Miss Korea: second runner-up here is second runner-up there

    Sarah Lee, the 2014 Miss Korea USA’s second runner-up from Los Angeles, went on to take the same honor in Korea on Tuesday. The 23-year-old student was selected as one of the four second runner-ups of the 2014 Miss...

    • Posted July 15, 2014
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  • QUEENS
    Queens seeks a Koreatown of its own with “Korea Way”

    Plans are underway to name a section of Northern Blvd. in Flushing, N.Y., “Korea Way,” the Korean American Association of Queens said Friday. The association said it sent an official construction proposal to the office of City...

    • Posted July 15, 2014
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  • suicide
    Suicide leading cause of death for younger Koreans for sixth straight year

    According to Statistics Korea (Yonhap) — Suicide was the No. 1 cause of death for younger Koreans in 2012, with more youths thinking about taking their own lives due to stress from study and economic difficulties, a...

    • Posted July 14, 2014
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  • German players celebrate with the trophy after the World Cup final soccer match between Germany and Argentina at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Germany won the match 1-0. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
    Germany wins fourth World Cup

    Germany won its fourth World Cup title, another one at the expense of Argentina, as Mario Gotze’s extra-time winner sank the resilient South American side led by Lionel Messi. The final at Estadio Maracana seemed destined for...

    • Posted July 14, 2014
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