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Seoul delivers barrage of K-pop music across border to North Korea

January 17, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea tries to get under the skin of its archrival with border broadcasts that feature not only criticism of North Korea’s nuclear program, troubled economy and human rights abuses, but also a unique homegrown weapon: K-pop.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2016, Associated Press, Big Bang, IU, Kakao Talk, Lee Ae-ran, Manuel Noriega, North Koreans, Panama, SEOUL, South Korean, TV, USB, Vatican Embassy, Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, attention, culture

South Korea, Japan settle deal on wartime Korean sex slaves

January 3, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Foster Klug Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan on Monday reached a deal meant to resolve a decades-long impasse over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II, an important breakthrough for the Northeast Asian powers. The deal, which […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2016, Associated Press, China, Foster Klug, Japanese Embassy, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Korean Peninsula, Mari Yamaguchi, North Korea, Northeast Asian, SEOUL, South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Tokyo, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8

Samsung aid for sick workers comes with conditions, secrecy

December 20, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Youkyung Lee AP Technology Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung’s hopes of ending years of acrimony over whether its computer-chip factories caused cancer have hit a hitch: Some sickened workers and their families say they’ll never accept its highly conditional offer of financial assistance. As recently as the middle of last year, it […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2012, 2015, Asia, Baik Sooha, Chinese, Europe, Hwang Sang-gi, LCD, Lee Jae-yong, SEOUL, Samsung Electronics, Son Sung-bae, South Korean, Vol 34 No 52 | December 19 - December 25

Tearful cross-border reunion may be last for elderly Koreans

October 31, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Kim Tong-Hyung Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A 98-year-old South Korean man cried loudly and repeatedly buried his face in a handkerchief as his elderly North Korean son, who last saw his father as a 5-year-old, watched calmly from across the table. Meanwhile, an 88-year-old South Korean woman sobbed uncontrollably as she […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, 2015, Associated Press, Diamond Mountain, Ju Jae Un, Kim Wol-soon, Korean Peninsula, Korean War, Lee Bok-soon, Lee Seok-ju, North Korean Jong Kun Mok, Ri Dong Wuk, SEOUL, South Koreans, Vol 34 No 45 | October 31 - November 6, reunion

A meal and a webcam form unlikely recipe for S. Korean fame

August 29, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Youkyung Lee AP Technology Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Every evening, 14-year-old Kim Sung-jin orders fried chicken, delivery pizza or Chinese food to eat in a small room in his family’s home south of Seoul. He gorges on food as he chats before a live camera with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of teenagers watching. […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Ahn Joon-soo, Ahn Won-jun, China, Chinese, Cho Young-min, Lee Yeon-joo, Meok Bang, SEOUL, Sool Bang, South Koreans, Study Bang, Taiwan, Vol 34 No 36 | August 29 - September 4, YYTV, attention

Economy hit as MERS keeps Koreans indoors, deters tourists

June 21, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Youkyung Lee AP Business Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For a South Korean tour agency, the outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome feels like a bigger threat to business than a North Korean attack or nuclear reactor meltdown. Kim Chun Choo’s company, which has provided tour services for the last quarter century, is […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, 2015, Asiana Airlines, China, Kim Chun Choo, Kim Travel, Korean Air Lines, Lee Ju-yeol, MERS, North Korean, SEOUL, Saudi Arabia, South Koreans, Taiwan, Vol 34 No 26 | June 20 - June 26, World Health Organization, Yeonpyeong Island, japan

6th person dies of MERS virus in South Korea

June 14, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Tong-Hyung Kim Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A sixth person in South Korea has died of the MERS virus, as the government announced last week that it was strengthening measures to stem the spread of the disease and public fear. Sixty-four people in South Korea have been infected by Middle East Respiratory […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2015, Associated Press, Education, MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, SARS, SEOUL, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Vol 34 No 25 | June 13 - June 19

South Korean court frees Korean Air ‘nut rage’ executive

May 31, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Youkyung Lee AP Business Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court on Friday suspended the prison term of a former Korean Air executive whose onboard “nut rage” tantrum delayed a flight last year, immediately ending her incarceration. The Seoul High Court said Cho Hyun-ah, who is the daughter of the airline’s […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Cho Hyun-ah, Kim Ryeong-hui, Kim Sang-hwan, Korean Air, New York, SEOUL, South Korean, TV, Vol 34 No 23 | May 30 - June 5

Former Olympic swimming champ Park apologizes for doping

April 4, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A tearful former Olympic swimming champion, Park Tae-hwan of South Korea, offered an impassioned public apology Friday, four days after receiving an 18-month ban for failing a doping test. Park, who won South Korea’s only ever swimming gold in the 400 meters freestyle at the […]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2015, 2016, Associated Press, Beijing Games, Brazil, Chinese, FINA, Former Olympic, London Games, Olympic Games, Olympics, SEOUL, South Korean, Sun Yang, Vol 34 No 15 | April 4 - April 10

Recommended 3 years in jail for nut rage exec

February 14, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By  Youkyung Lee AP Business Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean prosecutors on Monday recommended three years in jail for the former Korean Air executive charged with endangering flight safety during a tantrum over how she was served macadamia nuts. Cho Hyun-ah, the daughter of Korean Air’s chairman, has pleaded not guilty to […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Cho Hyun-ah, Kim Woon-sub, Korean Air, Lunar New Year, New York, Park Chang-jin, SEOUL, South Korea, Vol 34 No 8 | February 14 - February 20, Yeo Woon-jin

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