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South Korea seeks jail for disgraced cloning scientist

August 27, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Prosecutors demanded a four-year prison term on Aug. 24 for a South Korean scientist disgraced in a cloning scandal that shook the international scientific community and led to his trial on fraud and other charges.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, Hwang Woo-suk, Seoul Central District Court, Seoul National University South Korea, South Korean, Yonhap News Agency, vol 28 no 36 | August 29 - September 4

PGA champ is a farmer’s son who picked up golf at 19

August 20, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

JEJU, South Korea (AP) — Y.E. Yang played baseball, basketball, soccer, and volleyball as a child.

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2008, 2009, Asian Tour Executive Chairman Kyi Hla Han, Associated Press, Australia, Compaq Classic, Fiji, JEJU, Ko Hee-soon, LPGA, New Zealand, Shane Hahm, South Korean, TBS, Vijay Singh, Yang Han-joon, Yang Yong-eun, Yang Yong-hyuk, vol 28 no 35 | August 22 - August 28

Ex-S. Korean President Kim Dae-jung dead at 85

August 20, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Dae-jung — who survived assassination attempts and a death sentence during his years as a dissident to become president of South Korea, and whose unflagging efforts to reconcile with communist North Korea earned him the Nobel Peace Prize — died Tuesday, Aug. 18, hospital officials said. He was 85.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, Demilitarized Zone, Kim Jong-il, Korean War, Lee Sung-man, National Assembly, Nobel Peace Prize, North Korea, President Lee Myung-bak, President Park Chung-hee, President Roh Moo-hyun, SEOUL, Severance Hospital, South Korea Kim Dae-jung, South Korean, Sunshine Policy, Tokyo, vol 28 no 35 | August 22 - August 28

Sparkly vampires where?

August 12, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“Thirst” is a new film directed by controversial South Korean director Chan-wook Park. The film begins with a fat man wheezing in his hospital bed. Between wheezes, he explains how he once held the world’s greatest sponge cake. He longed for nothing more than a private place to devour this cake. However, he came across two hungry sisters and gave the cake to them instead.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, At the Movies Tagged With: 2009, Actor Song, Africa, Andrew Hamlin, Chan-wook Park, Director Park, Joon-ho Bong, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, South Korean, United States, Varsity Theatre, attention, vol 28 no 34 | August 15 - August 21

Families plead for U.S. reporters’ release from North Korea

June 4, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jean H. Lee The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For weeks after North Korean guards seized Laura Ling and Euna Lee near its borders and took the American journalists to Pyongyang, citing on criminal charges, Ling and Lee’s families waited quietly for news about them.

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: Analyst Paik Hak-soon, Bob Dietz, China, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Euna Lee, Foreign Affairs, Larry King Live, Lisa Ling, Michael Saldate, North Korean, South Korean, State Hillary Clinton, Tumen River, United States, Vice President Al Gore, Yoon Deok-min, vol 28 no 24 | June 6 - June 12

The Movement comes to Seattle

May 20, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Caroline Li Northwest Asian Weekly A Hip Hop group from Koreatown in Los Angeles, the guys of Far*East Movement (FM) have been extremely busy. Their following grows bigger and bigger with each step they take in making a name for themselves in today’s Hip Hop scene.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Profiles Tagged With: 2009, Asian Americans, Asian Hip Hop, Epik High, FM, Far East Movement, Folk Music, Kev Nish Thank, Los Angeles, Music Caf Gala, NWAW, Seattle, Sixth Ave, South Korean, Vol 28 No 22 | May 23 - 29, Wiz Khalifa, culture, japan

South Korean experts claim to have cloned glowing dogs

May 2, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean scientists say they have engineered four beagles that glow red using cloning techniques that could help develop cures for human diseases.

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: DNA, Europe, Gyeongsang National University, Hwang Woo-suk, Lee Byeong-chun, Seoul National University, South Korean, vol 28 no 19 | May 2 - May 8

Warships set sail ahead of North Korean launch

April 4, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japanese, South Korean, and U.S. missile-destroying ships set sail to monitor North Korea’s imminent rocket launch, as Pyongyang stoked tensions

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, Associated Press, Korean Central News Agency, Mari Yamaguchi, North Korean, Proliferation Security Initiative, Rodong Sinmun, SEOUL, Security Council, South Korean, Tokyo, Vol 28 No 15 | April 4 - April 10, japan, technology

Report: North Korea to fire rocket April 4–5

March 26, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-jin Kim The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea will likely fire a suspected long-range missile capable of striking the western United States between April 4–5, a news report quoted a South Korean intelligence officer as saying on March 23.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Akitaka Saiki, Beijing, Chinese, Choson Sinbo, Defense Ministry, Monday March, North Korea, SEOUL, Security Council, South Korea Yonhap, South Korean, Tokyo, United States, Wu Dawei, technology

International students hurt by financial crisis

December 20, 2008 By Northwest Asian Weekly

MURRAY, Ky. (AP) — When the financial crisis hit the United States in September, it caused many Americans to panic. What most didn’t realize — but what is all too clear

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2008, CST, Ha-lim Jang, Hyuncheol Lee, International Studies, MSU, Mike Basile, Murray Ledger Times, Murray State University, New York, Seid Hassan, South Korean, United States, Vol 27 No 52 | December 20 - December 26

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