by STEVE HAN For some people, blasting a group of young men on blogs, Twitter and among friends isn’t enough. When the South Korean national soccer team traveled home […]
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KoreAm Video: World Cup Watch Party in Koreatown LA
by JOANNE LEE KoreAm was at Koreatown L.A.’s World Cup viewing party this past Sunday when Team Korea took on Algeria in its pivotal second group stage match, which […]
Korean Translation Service To Help World Cup Tourists In Brazil
A South Korean nonprofit is ready to assist the hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists in Brazil for this year’s World Cup Soccer with real-time language assistance, according to the Associated Press. Before […]
Monday's Link Attack: David Chang, Forever 21, K-Pop
The Hangover Part III GQ It started as a challenge. A patently absurd challenge. Could one writer keep up with a real-life Wolf Pack—comic star Aziz Ansari, top chef […]
Wednesday's Link Attack: Roy Choi, Margaret Cho, Anthony Kim
Roy Choi to open Sunny Spot next week Los Angeles Times Roy Choi of Kogi, Chego and A-Frame says he’ll be opening new restaurant Sunny Spot on Nov. 18 […]
Monday's Link Attack: Moon Bloodgood, Grace Kelly
Moon Bloodgood Steps in for Franka Potente PR.com The “Falling Skies” star was recently cast in an upcoming independent movie. When a last minute production snag caused Franka Potente […]
Monday's Link Attack: Undocumented KA, Park Ji-sung, more
Undocumented and Korean at UC Berkeley New American Media When Ju Hong stepped before his class at UC Berkeley to discuss his status as an undocumented immigrant, the response […]
Friday’s Link Attack: Jane Kim, North Korea, Park Ji-sung
Jane Kim, Why Are You Still Single? San Francisco Examiner During a campaign event in San Francisco with Mayor Ed Lee, District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim fielded an unusual […]
Thursday’s Link Attack: NK Hackers, K-Pop Hits Europe
North Korean hackers hired to attack South Korea game network Reuters More than 30 North Korean hackers were hired to work in China by a South Korean crime ring […]
Wednesday’s Link Attack: Kim Jong-un, World Cup, Wonder Girls
Kim Jong-un ‘Masterminded Attacks on S.Korea’ Chosun Ilbo A North Korean document supports the conclusion that North Korea attacked the Navy corvette Cheonan and Yeonpyeong Island last year to […]
Friday’s Link Attack: NK, SK Enter Talks, Korean Susan Boyle, Park Ji-sung
Chief Nuclear Envoys From North and South Korea Meet New York Times The chief nuclear negotiators of South and North Korea met on Friday for the first time since […]
Friday's Link Attack: Ken Jeong, Chinese Wannabe Ken Jeong, More
‘Hangover II’ Star Ken Jeong Becomes a Billion-Dollar Star The Hollywood Reporter “The times, they are a-changin’,” says Ken Jeong, the unlikely star whose movies Transformers: Dark of the […]
Thursday's Link Attack: NK Famine Overblown? Baltimore Murder, KA Joins Grantland
Reports of North Korea food shortages overblown, say US, South Korea Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo News The US and South Korea disagree with the United Nations World Food […]
Wednesday's Link Attack: Sung Kim, Sung Kang, NK Soccer
Obama’s nomination for Seoul envoy ‘great choice’: U.S. ambassador Yonhap News Outgoing U.S. ambassador to South Korea Kathleen Stephens praised President Barack Obama’s nomination of Korean American Sung Kim […]
Ex-Korean National Team Goalie Admits To Throwing Games
by Jay Yim Add Yeom Dong-Gyun’s name to the list of disgraced athletes to be involved in the ever-growing Korean Professional Football League match-fixing scandal. Already, 10 K-League players […]