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Courts will treat international passengers differently in lawsuits

July 20, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Paul Elias The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When the courts have to figure compensation for people aboard Asiana Airlines Flight 214, the potential payouts will probably be vastly different for Americans and passengers from other countries, even if they were seated side by side as the jetliner crash-landed.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2013, Asiana Airlines Flight, Benjamin Allen, Brian Havel, Federal Aviation Administration, Financial Supervisory Service, Florida Everglades, Frank Pitre, International Aviation Law Institute, Korean Air Lines, Mike Danko, Northern California, San Francisco, South Koreans, Suh Chang-suk, Suh Dong Hee, United States, Vol 32 No 30 | July 20 - July 26, Ye Mengyuan

At tail end of trans-Pacific f light, terror

July 13, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Terry Collins and Joan Lowy The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After nearly 11 hours in the air, the passengers and crew aboard a jumbo jetliner traveling from Seoul to San Francisco were looking forward to a quick and uneventful landing as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 approached the airport from over San Francisco […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2013, Asiana Airlines Flight, Asiana President Yoon Young-doo, Benjamin Levy, British Airways Flight, China Central Television, Chinese, Doug Yakel, Ki Siadatan, Kim Haing, Mike Barr, San Francisco Bay, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, South Koreans, Star Alliance, Vedpal Singh, Vol 32 No 29 | July 13 - July 19, Ye Mengyuan

South Koreans hope to return to Kaesong factories

April 27, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Youkyung Lee AP Business Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean entrepreneurs who invested up to 10 years and millions of dollars in the Kaesong industrial complex, a symbol of economic collaboration between the Koreas that is now shuttered by the North, have little more than hope to cling to as assembly […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2013, CEO, Chinese, Choi Dong-jin, Daemyung Blue Jeans Inc, Foxconn Technology Group, Han Jae-kwon, Korean Peninsula, North Koreans, Sam Kim, South Koreans, Unification Ministry, United States, Vol 32 No 18 | April 27 - May 3, Yoo Byung-ki, communication

Koreas’ rhetoric no match for surreal calm at DMZ

March 23, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Foster Klug The Associated Press IMJINGAK, South Korea (AP) — Busloads of tourists still show up to gawk at the world’s most heavily fortified border, even as governments on both sides threaten to reduce each other to rubble.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, 2013, Baek Jong-moon, DMZ, Han River, Hyung-jin Kim, IMJINGAK, Kim Jong-un, Korean War, Los Angeles, North Koreans, Sam Kim, South Koreans, Thomas Wolfley, United States, Vol 32 No 13 | March 23 - March 29, Yellow Sea, technology

Tensions linger over US ‘comfort women’ plaques

February 9, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff The Associated Press HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — After noticing plaques at the local courthouse commemorating slavery, the Holocaust, and other atrocities, Korean American community leader Chejin Park had the idea of adding a tribute to the “comfort women” of World War II.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2013, Bergen County, Chejin Park, China, Georgia, HACKENSACK, Imperial Japanese, Kathleen Donovan, Korean American, Mayor James Rotundo, New Jersey, Palisades Park, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Samantha Henry, South Koreans, US, Vol 32 No 7 | February 9 - February 15

Special Olympics focuses on South Korean view of disabled

February 2, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sam Kim and Ahn Young-Joon The Associated Press PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — South Korea began showing off its new snow sports mecca with the opening of the Special Olympics on Tuesday, Jan. 29.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2013, Associated Press, Down Syndrome, Jeong Jong-hwa, Na Kyung-won, North Korea, PYEONGCHANG, Park Geun-hye, Sam Kim, Samyook University, South Koreans, Special Olympics, Vol 32 No 6 | February 2 - February 8, Winter Games, Winter Olympics, poverty

South Korean leader’s islets visit draw Japan protest

August 20, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

South Korea’s president has made a surprise, election-year visit to islets also claimed by Japan, which quickly reasserted its sovereignty there, recalled its ambassador from Seoul and warned that the trip would worsen the countries’ strained relations …

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Associated Press, Eric Talmadge, Foreign Ministry, Japanese Embassy, Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Korean Peninsula, North Korea, Patrick Ventrell, President Lee Myung-bak, SEOUL, South Korea, South Koreans, State Department, Tokyo, William Grimes, japan

LETTER: Commentary about Korean unification isn’t realistic

January 24, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

To the Editor: Dr. Vernasius T. Tandia’s commentary (Jan. 7, 2012) regarding stereotypes harbored by South Koreans toward North Korean refugees among them, and the way that these stereotypes harm hope for reunification enlists the reader in the call for an idealizing and accommodating vision about North Korea that doesn’t seem at all realistic about […]

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: 2012, China, Cold Warrior, Harry Truman, Idealizing North Korea, Mac Crary, North Koreans, Saddam Hussein, Seattle, South Koreans, Vol 31 No 4 | January 21 - January 27

COMMENTARY: Stereotyped impressions of North Koreans hurting Korean reunification

January 6, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Dr. Vernasius T. Tandia By Dr. Vernasius T. Tandia For Northwest Asian Weekly Compared to about a decade ago, when there was widespread opposition to reunification, a growing number of Koreans now seem to be settling for it. With increasing public discourse on the issue, including the current jostling over a mandatory reunification tax, the […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2012, International Relations, Kim Jong-il, North Koreans, South Koreans, Vol 31 No 2 | January 7 - January 13

Kim Jong Il’s heir meets with South Korean delegation

January 2, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s next leader burnished his diplomatic skills Monday, welcoming a private South Korean mourning delegation as state media revealed a new title that gives Kim Jong Un authority over political matters. Kim Jong Un has rapidly gained prominence since the death of his father Kim Jong Il on Dec. […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Associated Press, Central Committee, Central Military Commission, Comrade Kim Jong Un, Hyundai Group Chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun, Hyung-jin Kim, Kim Il Sung Square, Kim Jong-il, Korean People, Kumsusan Memorial Palace, Last Monday, National Defense Commission, North Korean, Rodong Sinmun, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, South Koreans, Vol 31 No 1 | December 31 - January 6, Workers Party

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