Yongtae Kim Articles
  • War With ISIS May Take Up to 4 Years

    At a conference in Washington D.C. General Martin Dempsey, the current Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff stated through Military Times that the war against the terrorist group ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) could take as long as 4 years.
  • Firefox Leaves Google To Join Yahoo

    On the 20th, Business Insider reported that Mozilla’s Fire Fox had decided to end its partnership with Google, and instead chose Yahoo as its new default site. On this day, Fire Fox’s contract with Google had ended.
  • Jin Eon Kwak Crowned 2014 Super Star K

    Jin Eon Kwak emerged as the 2014 champion of Super Star K6. On the 20th, South Korea’s Mnet broadcast the final episode of the popular audition program. Many critics and fans have expressed that the fact that Kwak had won the tournament was a miracle in that while most auditions tend to favor ...
  • Myanmar, the Poorest But Most Generous Nation in the World

    The U.K.’s Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) announced on the 20th that Myanmar has the world’s highest WGI (World Giving Index). In other words, Myanmar’s citizens are the most generous in the world compared to other nations. CAF reported that Myanmar has climbed to the top place since the past 2 ...
  • North Korea Rejects U.N. Human Rights Resolution

    On the 19th, North Korea officially rejected the United Nations’ human rights resolutions. The North Korean representatives expressed outrage at the resolution that which suggested that DPRK’s human rights issue be discussed at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The North Korean government ...
  • KCCC Students Flood Higher Calling 2014 Site With Prayer

    Higher Calling is one of the largest conferences for young Korean-Americans. Hosted by KCCC (Korea Campus Crusade for Christ), the conference’s purpose is to give Korean-American college and high school students an opportunity to find the calling and vision that God had planned for their lives. On ...
  • Japan Requests “McGraw Hill” Remove “Comfort Women” from History Books

    Japan’s Sankei Newspaper reported that the Japanese Foreign Ministry officially requested that “McGraw Hill” Education, one of America’s major publishing companies, remove information about the Japanese military’s use of “Comfort Women” or wartime prostitutes from their text books.
  • Korea’s High School Students End Yearly College Entrance Exam

    Growing up as an average high school student in Korea is no easy task, especially if you entered your senior year. While here in the U.S. when you enter your senior year, you would imagine having fun after sending in your college applications and taking fewer classes. If you are a high school ...
  • ESA’s Philae’s Battery Dies After Drilling Into Comet Surface

    On the 12th of November humanity succeeded for the first time in landing an unmanned spacecraft on the surface of a comet. The European Space Agency (ESA)’s robotic probe “Philae”, landed on the surface of the comet 67P after almost 10 years of travelling through the solar system. YTN News reported ...
  • Super Star K6: Jin Eon Kwak and Feel Kim Move Onto Finals

    Mnet’s Super Star K Season 6 announced that Feel Kim and Jin Eon Kwak will be moving onto the finals. On the 14th the audition program announced that Do-Hyeok Lim, who was part of the TOP 3 that made it into the semifinals will no longer be able to participate in the tournament.
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