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Former National Assembly Speaker Lee Man-seop and Philip Kim, a professor of physics at Columbia University, will win the Proud Korean Award from the Korean American Leadership Foundation in Los Ange...
Updated : 2011.07.17 19:06
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South Korean scientists said Friday that they have developed a highly efficient nanoporous industrial catalyst that can have a considerable impact on chemical and oil-refining sectors. The team of s...
Updated : 2011.07.17 19:05
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Former judge Rep. Park says disabled need greater employment support For the needy people, welfare is a right given them, not charity, an opposition lawmaker said Sunday, urging the government to ex...
Updated : 2011.07.17 19:03
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Jane Fonda says she's been banished from the cable television home-shopping channel QVC amid concerns about her political past. The network says it was a routine programming change. ...
Updated : 2011.07.17 13:18
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Soon after Kim Sun-joo began her term as director of Harvard University’s Korea Institute, she was on a plane to South Korea to attend a conference on Korean studies organized by the Korea Foundatio...
Updated : 2011.07.14 18:56
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Choi Hung-jib, 60, was named the new CEO of Kangwon Land, a resort and casino in Gangwon Province, on Tuesday. The move makes the former vice governor of Gangwon the seventh president of the nation’...
Updated : 2011.07.14 18:54
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Mario Maurer The Korea Tourism Organization on Monday said it named Mario Maurer, a popular entertainer in Thailand, as a PR ambassador. Born to a German father and Thai mother in 1988, the model, ...
Updated : 2011.07.12 19:21
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Park Tae-hak Park Tae-hak, senior researcher at the Agency for Defense Development, will lead a project to develop technologies needed to launch an entirely Korean-made space launch vehicle The Min...
Updated : 2011.07.12 19:16
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Kang Chil-soon, 51, has become the first female to head a regional headquarters of Korea Railroad, the national rail operator. In the July 1 reshuffle, Kang was named chief of Korail’s regional hea...
Updated : 2011.07.12 19:16
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Hyundai Elevator on Tuesday elected former Otis Elevator executive Han Sang-ho as chief executive. Han Sang-ho Han, 55, will be serving as CEO alongside Hyun Jeong-eun, the Hyundai Group chairwoman...
Updated : 2011.07.10 19:17
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The winners of the 56th the National Academy of Sciences Award (from left) Oh Saeng-keun, Suh Se-won, Lee Kil-seong and Song Jin-won (Yonhap News) Four scholars have been selected as winners for the...
Updated : 2011.07.10 19:16
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Park Mo-ran, an ethnic Korean Russian, won a Korean literature translation award last week. The 24-year-old student translated the novel “The Door of Morning” into Russian and was picked as one of...
Updated : 2011.07.10 19:15
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Theresa Rah (Yonhap News) Former journalist praised for presenting PyeongChang Olympic bid Theresa Rah, communications director of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games Bid Committee, has stepped into ...
Updated : 2011.07.10 19:11
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DETROIT (AP) _ Betty Ford, the former first lady whose triumph over drug and alcohol addiction became a beacon of hope for addicts and the inspiration for her Betty Ford Center, has died, a family fr...
Updated : 2011.07.09 13:44
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John Z. Lee John Z. Lee, a 44-year-old Korean-American attorney, has been recommended to the White House for a position as a federal judge in Illinois. Lee was recommended along with three others b...
Updated : 2011.07.07 19:41
