All posts tagged "topstories"

  • This May 14, 2014 image provided by NASA shows numerous large wildfires burning across sections of northern Baja and southern California, producing plumes of moderate to dense smoke and combining with blowing dust and sand moving west off the coast and well into the Pacific Ocean. Nine fires in all were burning an area of more than 14 square miles amid a heat wave and dry conditions, said San Diego County officials, who warned also of poor air quality with black and gray smoke wafting over the region. (AP Photo/NASA)
    Fires rage around Southern California

    Fires are raging around Southern California under a record-breaking heat wave and strong winds. A wildfire had burned through 6.3 square kilometers of land in northern San Diego by Wednesday after being started on Tuesday around 11...

    • Posted May 14, 2014
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  • Park also announced that he will tie the knot with a former local television personality, Kim Min-ji, left, on July 27. (Yonhap)
    Park Ji-sung retires

    SUWON (Yonhap) — Park Ji-sung, arguably the most celebrated soccer player in Korean history, retired from the sport on Wednesday at age 33, citing debilitating pain in his surgically repaired right knee. Park, former national team captain and...

    • Posted May 14, 2014
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    B1A4: What’s going on in L.A.?

    By Tae Hong A few hours before the start of The Korea Times’ Music Festival on May 3, a voice singing Bruno Mars’ “Just the Way You Are” rings off the walls of the empty staircase outside...

    • Posted May 13, 2014
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  • The South Korean currency continued to strengthen against both the U.S. dollar and the Japanese Yen. (Yonhap)
    Korean currency rises to breach 1,000 won level per yen

    By Lee Minji / Yonhap SEOUL —  The South Korean currency continued to strengthen on Tuesday, surpassing the psychologically important level of 1,000 won per 100 yen. The won hit 998.25 per 100 yen as of 5:34...

    • Posted May 13, 2014
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    Disaster avoided as unfinished building in Asan abruptly tilts

    By Kim Tong-hyung Future travelers were saved from a possible disaster on Monday when an unfinished hotel in Asan, Chungcheong Province, abruptly titled to one side, just two weeks before the building’s scheduled completion. Construction workers say...

    • Posted May 12, 2014
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    Know your dual citizenship status before visiting Korea

    Korean American men who did not renounce Korean nationality  may still have an obligation to complete military service in Korea By Kim Chul-soo Men with dual citizenship in the U.S. and South Korea may have an obligation...

    • Posted May 12, 2014
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    Koreatown celebrates Mother’s Day with love and carnations

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff Mother’s Day may still be days away, but the Koreatown community on Thursday had an early celebration for the Korean Parents’ Day that falls on May 8 every year. At...

    • Posted May 9, 2014
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