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New Yorkers Under Siege Of Superstorm Sandy

New Yorkers Under Siege Of Superstorm Sandy

Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University’s Tisch Hospital, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. The New York City hospital is moving out more than 200 patients after its backup generator failed when the power was knocked out by a superstorm. <AP Photo/John Minchillo> An uprooted […]

Chinese Soldiers Rescue 26 Vietnamese When Typhoon Pounded Bordering Areas Of Two Nations

Chinese Soldiers Rescue 26 Vietnamese When Typhoon Pounded Bordering Areas Of Two Nations

A Chinese soldier hands over a Vietnamese baby he rescued from the flood to his mother at a waterlogged market near the China-Vietnam border river Beilun in Dongxing, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Oct. 29, 2012. Typhoon Son-Tinh has brought strong wind and downpours to Guangxi since Sunday, sinking six boats and causing […]

Korea PR expert puts up ‘sex slavery’ posters in Japan

Korea PR expert puts up ‘sex slavery’ posters in Japan

Korea PR expert Seo Kyoung-duk, a professor at Sungshin Women’s University, has put up posters in Japanese universities calling for their apology for Korean “comfort women” who were forced into prostitution for the Japanese army during World War II. Seo and some 50 Korean students studying in Japan covered walls in nearly 40 major Japanese […]

‘Seoul should maximize human contact with NK’

‘Seoul should maximize human contact with NK’

Seoul should seek to increase interaction among businesspeople of the two Koreas, because people-to-people contact presents North Koreans with the most compelling evidence in the argument on the need for change, an American expert said Wednesday. Marcus Noland, deputy director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said that despite increased economic cooperation with China, […]

Ulleung preserves remnants of Japan’s colonial rule for a reason

Ulleung preserves remnants of Japan’s colonial rule for a reason

ULLEUNG ISLAND — Kim Pil-ryeon, 85, a native of this island, has a dying wish that will most likely be unfulfilled — meeting her Japanese classmates and neighbors with whom she shared many fond memories in her hometown. Kim may not be aware of how the rest of her compatriots feel about Japan after its […]

UN ready to engage in NK nuclear issue

UN ready to engage in NK nuclear issue

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday he is prepared to play an active role in the denuclearization of North Korea. “I am ready to play my part to work toward a peaceful and denuclearized Korean Peninsula… including through my own personal engagement and visits to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), under the […]

Van Gogh’s self-portraits come to Korea

Van Gogh’s self-portraits come to Korea

Koreans love Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh’s bold use of color, unique brushstrokes and sentiment in his paintings. This makes the expectations on the coming Van Gogh exhibit higher. Hosted by Hankook Ilbo, The Korea Times’ sister paper, 60 of Van Gogh’s works, including nine self-portraits, will be on display at “Van Gogh in […]

Who copied who?

Who copied who?

Apple’s copycat argument against Samsung faces backlash Ever since the patent war between Samsung and Apple began, the simplest but most controversial issue at the legal battle has been whether the Korean firm’s Galaxy series copied features of the U.S. tech giant’s i-branded devices. Courts, as well as legal experts, have been split over the […]

Naro space rocket launch reset for mid-Nov.

Naro space rocket launch reset for mid-Nov.

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) said Monday that it will make its third attempt to launch the Korea Space Launch Vehicle (KSLV-1), colloquially called Naro, sometime between Nov. 9 and 24 following Friday’s cancellation. It opened a launch review committee with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and decided that it will not […]

Lybian People Still Struggle To Overcome Legacy Of Dictatorship Celebrating 1st Anniversary Of Gadhafi’s Fall

Lybian People Still Struggle To Overcome Legacy Of Dictatorship Celebrating 1st Anniversary Of Gadhafi’s Fall

In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, armed militiamen acting as security rush towards protesters shaking the gates to the compound of Libya’s parliament in Tripoli, Libya. One year on, the country is still trying to overcome the legacy of one of the most erratic leaders of modern times as well as a brutal eight […]

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