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• US men’s soccer misses 2nd straight Olympics
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All posts tagged "Washington"

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  Seattle suburb sees new Korean American city council candidate

  By The Korea Times Seattle staff Peter Kwon, 45, a Rhapsody systems engineer, has thrown in his name for the City Council of SeaTac, Washington. Kwon, whose Korean name is Kwon Seung-hyun, completed his registration for council...

  • Posted June 15, 2015
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  N. Korean defectors to learn about democracy in US

  By Lee Ji-hye A Washington-based North Korean NGO is organizing a student program for North Korean defectors to participate in a U.S. leadership program next month. Hosted by the Korean American Sharing Movement (KASM), 10 students from...

  • Posted June 11, 2015
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  Washington city looks for Korean sister city

  By The Korea Times Seattle staff A Washington city with a significant Korean American population is looking to find a sister city in South Korea. Nicola Smith, mayor of Lynnwood, Wash., held a meeting with Seattle Korean...

  • Posted May 1, 2015
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  President Park to visit US later this year

  SEOUL, April 24 (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye will visit Washington later this year to consolidate the nations’ alliance amid a flurry of summit diplomacy between the U.S. and Northeast Asian powers involved in historical and territorial...

  • Posted April 24, 2015
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  Korean comic book room of the 1970s and ’80s installed at University of Washington

  A comic book room straight out of the 1970s and ’80s in South Korea, stocked with popular cartoonists of the time, opened inside the University of Washington last week. The installation — complete with a black-and-white television...

  • Posted April 6, 2015
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  Cardboard ‘Most Interesting Man’ fails as carpool-lane trick

  FIFE, Wash. (AP) — A Washington State Patrol trooper says it’s by far the best carpool scam he’s seen, but it didn’t work. As KOMO-TV put it, “Troopers don’t always stop people in the HOV lanes, but...

  • Posted March 24, 2015
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  ‘Misaeng’ author coming to Seattle for K-manhwa festival

  Seattleites will have a chance to see “Misaeng” author Yoon Tae-ho next month at the University of Washington’s “K-Manhwa: Graphic Narratives from Paper to Screen.” “Misaeng,” one of last year’s biggest K-drama hits, started as a graphic...

  • Posted February 10, 2015
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