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Korean Air records 2Q net loss on fuel, currency

AP — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:06:02 +0000

Korean Air Lines Co. posted a second-quarter net loss amid soaring fuel costs and a weak South Korean currency, it said Thursday.

Bush: North Korea "traps" its citizens in misery

AP — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:09:13 +0000

President Bush says that the Korean peninsula offers a contrast between free and open societies like South Korea and repressive regimes like its neighbor to the north.

An un-American feel aids expanding US Web firms

AP — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:39:50 +0000

AOL splashes images of Bollywood celebrities on its new home page for India. MySpace accepts sign-ups from mobile phones in Japan. Google departs from its customarily spartan home page and peppers its Korean site with colorful, animated...

Bush falls short of grand goals on North Korea

AP — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:43:49 +0000

Seven years of tough talk by President Bush failed to stop North Korea from enlarging its stockpile of nuclear bombs on his watch and Bush’s administration is winding down with deep doubts about whether Pyongyang really intends to abandon its...

Rice trip comes amid signs of NKorea cooperation

AP — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:40:04 +0000

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heads to Asia next week amid signs of an imminent breakthrough in efforts to get North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons and bring a formal end to the Korean War.After months of delay, the communist North appears...

Pa. robbery victim, 71, and friend in wheelchair nab suspect

AP — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:03:01 +0000

The young woman probably thought the 71-year-old Korean War veteran, whose friend was in a wheelchair, would make an easy target. She was wrong.Harry Kopenis (ko-PEN’-is) chased and tackled the 22-year-old woman he says robbed him at an ATM...

Asian Researchers Create an Artificial Virus to Heal, Not Harm

Andrew — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:29:10 +0000

A group of Korean researchers are working on an artificial virus. That might sound like time to dispatch both James Bond AND Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Ultimate Mad Scientist Destruction Crossover, but here in the real world it turns out that:...

AP IMPACT: Thousands killed by US's Korean ally

AP — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:17:36 +0000

Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation’s U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a...

South Korea, Japan end sea confrontation

AP — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:15:07 +0000

A standoff between the Japanese and South Korean coast guards ended peacefully after a joint investigation found that a Korean fishing boat did not violate Japanese waters, an official said Saturday.The incident began when the 134-ton fishing boat...

Samsung joins forces with LG, Harris on mobile TV

AP — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:09:46 +0000

Samsung Electronics is combining efforts with fellow Korean electronics maker LG Electronics to develop a new standard for mobile TV broadcasts, the companies announced Wednesday.Harris Corp., an American broadcast technology company, will provide...