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  • Korean Men Now Competing To Serve At DMZ

    South Korea is one of the few countries left in the world which requires at least its male citizens to serve in the military for a certain number of years. Every man is expected to serve for 22 months in the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines as a soldier or in another non-combat position. After 5 ...

  • President Obama Requests Congress For Additional 5.6 Billion Dollars To Fight ISIS

    On the 7th of November, according to Reuters, President Barrack Obama had officially requested the majority-Republican U.S. Congress to finance an additional budget of up to 5.6 billion dollars in order to support the US-led coalition against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

  • First Japanese Ebola Patient?

    A Japanese man who was from Tokyo who recently returned from a trip to Liberia was reported to have an exothermic reaction which was a common symptom of the Ebola virus. Japanese press reported that this man will be going to hospitals to go through a series of tests to check if he really was ...

  • Korea and US to Host Largest Military Exercise in History: Simulation of NK Invasion

    In light of the North Korean government’s recent threats of starting a second Korean War, the U.S. and South Korean militaries announced that they will be hosting the largest joint military exercise that has ever been organized in the 65-year history of the Korean forces. SBS reported that out of ...

  • MC Mong Kills Charts With “Miss Me Or Diss Me”

    On the 3rd, the Korean rapper MC Mong made a remarkable comeback with his latest album “Miss Me Or Diss Me”. After 5 years of preparation and seclusion from public gaze for the past 5 years, the rap artist killed all of Korea’s major charts and became the highest grossing album in his career. ...

  • China Declares War On Drugs

    The Chinese government reported that there are around 2.7 million people who have records of drug abuse who are under surveillance. A government spokesperson noted however that there are around 13 million Chinese citizens who are believed to be addicted to and illegally buying and selling drugs. ...

  • Campus Ministries Prepare to Receive “Higher Calling”

    5 branches of Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC), one of the largest Korean-American Christian ministries for college students gathered at Moore Hall in UCLA for a collaborative night of worship on the 30th. A total of 5 campuses with KCCC ministries were present; UCLA, USC, Cal State ...

  • Japanese Historians: “Mobilization of Comfort Women is Undeniable”

    South Korea’s MBC News reported that Japan’s Association for Research on History, an authoritative scholarly organization stated that Japan’s capturing and use of Korean and Chinese women as prostitutes for the soldiers during the Second World War is undeniable fact, and these “Comfort Women” ...

  • ISIS Executes 220 Sunni Muslims

    Reuters and South Korea’s News 1 reported that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) members may have 220 members of a Sunni Muslim tribe in Iraq. It is believed that ISIS had carried out these executions as a sign of warning to those, including fellow Muslims that whoever gets in the way will ...

  • Korea Joins The War On Ebola

    South Korea’s KBS reported that Korea has officially joined the war against the Ebola Virus. Korea’s Ministry of Defense had announced on the 29th that they will be dispatching military medical personnel to either Liberia or Sierra Leon. For the next 2 weeks the government will be recruiting troops ...
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