North Korean defections to South rise as 43 arrive in Q1, gov't data shows The number of North Korean defectors who successfully reached South Korea came to 43 in the first quarter, marking an increase from the same period last year, government data showed Tuesday. 04/29/2024 - 10:11 pm | View Link
With iPhone sales weak, Chinese/South Korean smartphone and OLED manufacturers take advantage to increase capacity Amid sluggish iPhone sales, Samsung Electronics and Chinese smartphone brands have begun to take advantage of this gap and expand their inventory of smartphones and OLEDs to seize market shares. This ... 04/29/2024 - 10:04 pm | View Link
Plummeting Standards at South Korean Teachers’ Colleges Raise Alarms Even as admissions standards crumbled, competition for the limited spots intensified. The overall ratio of applicants to admitted students across South Korea’s 13 teachers’ colleges and education ... 04/29/2024 - 8:11 pm | View Link
Reuters: UN says North Korean-made missile struck Kharkiv in January Both Ukrainian and U.S. officials have previously said that Russia has been using North Korean-produced missiles to attack Ukraine. 04/29/2024 - 6:55 pm | View Link
South Korean nationals deported for illegal TV shoot in Bali Two South Koreans have been deported by immigration authorities after conducting an illegal film shoot in Bali. 04/29/2024 - 6:25 pm | View Link
Culture of South Korea By maintaining thousands of years of ancient Korean culture, with influence from ancient Chinese culture, South Korea split on its own path of cultural development away from North Korean culture since the division of Korea in 1945. 04/27/2024 - 1:08 am | View Link
Korea, South Country name. conventional long form: Republic of Korea conventional short form: South Korea local long form: Taehan-min'guk local short form: Han'guk abbreviation: ROK etymology: derived from the Chinese name for Goryeo, which was the Korean dynasty that united the peninsula in the 10th century A.D.; the South Korean name "Han'guk" derives from the long form, "Taehan-min'guk," which is itself ... 04/26/2024 - 6:13 pm | View Link
South Korea Facts | Britannica South Korea, country in East Asia that occupies the southern portion of the Korean peninsula. It faces North Korea across a demilitarized zone 2.5 miles (4 km) wide that was established by the terms of the 1953 armistice that ended fighting in the Korean War. The capital is Seoul. 04/26/2024 - 6:03 am | View Link
South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone; though it also claims the land border with China and Russia. 04/25/2024 - 7:59 am | View Link
South Korea 8 Contemporary Korea. 8.1 South Korea’s Relationship with North Korea. 8.2 Recent South Korean history. 9 South Korea’s Transportation, energy, and infrastructure. 9.1 Transportation in Korea. 9.2 Energy and Infrastructure. 10 South Korea Travel and COVID-19 Situation. 04/24/2024 - 2:05 pm | View Link
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the 7-month-long war.
Netanyahu said Israel would enter Rafah to destroy Hamas’ battalions there “with or without a deal.” Israel and Hamas are negotiating a cease-fire agreement meant to free hostages and bring some relief to the Palestinians in the besieged enclave.
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“The idea that we will stop the war before achieving all of its goals is out of the questions.
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Donald Trump thinks that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been “rightfully” criticized for failing to stop Hamas’s murder of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7 and says there are “some very good people” who could take Netanyahu’s job.
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In a wide-ranging interview with TIME, Trump was sharply critical of Netanyahu, a close ally during the former President’s term.
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If elected to a second term in the White House, Donald Trump intends to pursue policies that would address what he says is a “definite anti-white feeling” in America.
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“If you look at the Biden Administration, they’re sort of against anybody depending on certain views,” Trump tells TIME in an interview when asked about his supporters who believe anti-white racism now represents a greater problem than anti-Black racism.
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In an exclusive interview with TIME, former President Donald Trump raised the specter of potential political violence if he loses the 2024 election. “I think we’re going to win,” he says on April 27 when asked about the prospect of political violence tied to November’s elections.
In 1956, my uncle John F. Kennedy, then a U. S. senator, wrote a book that is probably more famous for its great title than its contents. It was called Profiles in Courage. And it was about eight U. S. senators who JFK felt had made particularly courageous contributions to American history.
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For a while now, I have been thinking about what courage means to me.
Nearly a decade ago, a thin, soft-spoken twenty-something woman named Megan walked into my office and presented me with a meticulous hand-written file containing her gastrointestinal history. The file included descriptions of her initial diagnosis of Crohn’s disease as a teenager, the multiple operations she had endured to remove diseased parts of her bowels, and the array of symptoms she suffered with, including nausea, a dozen bowel movements a day, and a total reliance on nutrition obtained through her veins, known as total parenteral nutrition (TPN).