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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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McDowell wins in playoff at RBC Heritage
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, South Carolina (AP) ― For all the big moments in Graeme McDowell’s career, his resume was short on PGA Tour victories.McDowell relished what he called his first authentic tour win, defeating fellow U.S. Open champ Webb Simpson in a playoff at the RBC Heritage on Sunday.McDowell’s been at the center of some of golf’s biggest moments, from his rousing triumph at Pebble Beach in 2010 to capturing the winning point for Europe in that year’s Ryder Cup matches. He has six European
April 22, 2013
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Pettersen downs Salas in playoff for Lotte win
KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) ― Suzann Pettersen won the LPGA Lotte Championship on Saturday, beating Lizette Salas with a par on the first hole of a playoff after Salas chunked her approach shot into the water.Pettersen, the leader after the second and third rounds at Ko Olina, bogeyed the final hole of regulation to set up the playoff on the par-4 18th. The 32-year-old Norwegian closed with a 5-under 67, and Salas had a tournament-record 62 to finish at 19-under 269.“I thought 20 was going to do it,” P
April 21, 2013
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Pettersen leads Miyazato at Lotte
KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) ― Suzann Pettersen rebounded from her lone bogey with three back-nine birdies Thursday at wind-swept Ko Olina to take the second-round lead in the LPGA Lotte Championship.The 32-year-old Norwegian, a 10-time LPGA Tour winner ranked sixth in the world, shot a 3-under 69 in her afternoon round to reach 10-under 134. She had consecutive victories late last season in South Korea and Taiwan and won a Ladies European Tour event last month in China.Defending champion Ai Miyazato wa
April 19, 2013
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S. Korean golfer Park In-bee rises to No. 1 in women's world rankings
South Korean LPGA Tour star Park In-bee is the new world No. 1 in women's golf.Park moved up a spot to supplant Stacy Lewis of the U.S. as the top player in the latest women's rankings announced early Tuesday, Korean time. Park has an average of 9.28 ranking points, just 0.04 points ahead of Lewis, who had been No. 1 for the four previous weeks.Park, 24, is the second South Korean, after Shin Ji-yai in 2010, and the eighth player overall to reach No. 1 since the rankings were introduced in 2006
April 16, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Scott first Aussie to win the Masters
Adam Scott ended Australia’s long wait for a Masters win on Sunday. Scott, 32, beat Angel Cabrera of Argentina at the second playoff hole of the 77th Masters to become the first Australian to win the tournament. He recorded a total of 9-under 279 for four rounds. It was also his first major title. He took home $1.44 million in prize money. Adams won by using a long putter for the first time in the event. He made successful birdie putts with it on the 18th hole in the fourth round and the 10th ho
April 15, 2013
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Great Scott!
AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) ― Adam Scott finished the job this time, and put an end to more than a half-century of Australian misery at the Masters.With the two biggest putts of his career, Scott holed a 20-footer for birdie on the 18th hole of regulation that put him into a playoff with Angel Cabrera, and then won his first major championship Sunday with a 12-footer for birdie on the second extra hole.Scott leaned back and thrust his arms in the air after the putt dropped on the 10th hole, a celebrat
April 15, 2013
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Cabrera, Snedeker lead Masters by one shot
AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) ― Tiger Woods made two significant moves Saturday at the Masters ― one to stay in the tournament, the other to stay in the hunt.A day filled with high drama before a shot was struck at Augusta National, ended with Brandt Snedeker and Angel Cabrera tied for the lead, and Woods only four shots back. For a few tense hours in the morning, it was not clear if Woods was going to get a chance to play.Masters officials discovered late Friday evening that Woods had taken a bad drop
April 14, 2013
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Garcia, Leishman tied for lead
AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) ― Sergio Garcia might have written himself off too quickly at the Masters. When last seen walking off the course at Augusta National, the impetuous Spaniard was moping about his bad luck at this tournament and said last year it was increasingly evident he would never be fitted for a green jacket. Garcia matched his best score at the Masters on Thursday, a 6-under 66 with no bogeys on his card, to share the lead with Marc Leishman of Australia. And he still wasn’t entirely
April 12, 2013
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Golf: China’s Guan fires 73 in historic Masters debut
Chinese 14-year-old schoolboy Guan Tianlang turned his historic first round at the 77th Masters on Thursday into one for the ages, firing a one-over par 73 to stand as the low amateur player.When he nervously teed off straight up the middle of the first fairway, Guan became the youngest player in Masters history, breaking the previous youth age mark set by Italy’s Matteo Manassero at 16 in 2010.“I was a little bit nervous on the first tee,” Guan said. “I had to hit a great tee shot and I did. An
April 12, 2013
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The Masters not always kind to favorites
AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) ― The first tee shot clattered through a pair of pines on the left side of the 13th fairway, finally landing on the wrong side of Rae’s Creek. Tiger Woods tried again, and this wasn’t any better. Fans peered across the fairway and only heard the ball rifle through some bushes.“He’s hitting another one,” a man announced from the gallery.The third shot with a fairway metal caused them to retreat until it turned with a slight draw, clipping a pine branch and settling in the se
April 11, 2013
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Golf body removes restrictions on foreign circuits
South Korean female golfers will no longer be forced to play on the domestic tour before joining an overseas circuit. The Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association announced Thursday that it has scrapped a rule that made it mandatory for its members to play at least two years in South Korea before trying to reach a foreign tour.The rule had been in place since 2003 to prevent an exodus of star players and to ensure that the local tour would have good young talent.Players who violated this claus
April 11, 2013
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Yang says Masters ‘winnable’
AUGUSTA, Georgia (AFP) ― Asia’s history-maker Yang Yong-eun believes he has the game to win the Masters this week as he seeks to land a second major victory.The Korean star, who became the first Asian male golfer to win a major title when he beat Tiger Woods in a head-to-head duel at the 2009 PGA Championship, has flown under the radar in recent times following a quiet spell of form. But the Asian Tour player insists that the Masters is “winnable” as he prepares to take his place alongside the w
April 10, 2013
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Tiger Woods eyes another Masters win
AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) ― Around every corner at Augusta National is another reminder that Tiger Woods isn’t getting any younger.He played a practice round with a teenager from China who wasn’t even born when Woods won his first Masters. He was introduced at his news conference Tuesday as playing the Masters for the 19th time, which caused Woods to bow his head and cover his eyes.Among dozens of photographs on the walls of the club is one of defending champion Phil Mickelson helping Woods ― with a
April 10, 2013
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Positive doping test rate drops
The rate of positive doping tests in South Korean sports reached a four-year low in 2012, the country’s top anti-doping body said Tuesday.The Korea Anti-Doping Agency said it conducted 2,830 tests last year and 15 athletes tested positive for illegal substances. The KADA said it tested “B” samples for some athletes to confirm their doping.The positive test rate for 2012 came to 0.53 percent, the lowest since 0.49 percent in 2008. In 2011, the positive rate was 0.63 percent, out of 3,500 tests.Th
April 9, 2013
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14-year-old Chinese looks to have fun ...at Augusta
AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) ― Guan Tianlang is in good company this week at Augusta National.He played a practice round Monday with two-time Masters champion Ben Crenshaw, then headed out in the afternoon with Tiger Woods. He has a game lined up Tuesday with Tom Watson, an eight-time major champion. On Wednesday, he plans to play the Par 3 Tournament with Nick Faldo, winner of six majors.Can’t he play with someone his own age?Not at this Masters.Guan is the 14-year-old from China, the youngest to ever
April 9, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Park reaching her peak as she wins 2nd major
South Korea’s Park In-bee is building up momentum as an ace pro golfer. The 24-year-old finished with a 15-under-par 273 to beat runner-up compatriot Ryu So-yeon to win the Kraft Nabisco Championship by four strokes on Sunday. It was Park’s first major title of the season and also her second career major title in addition to her 2008 U.S. Women’s Open. The 24-year-old is also the second successive Korean to win the Kraft Nabisco after Yoo Sun-young last year. Park took home $300,000 for her win.
April 8, 2013
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Laird ties course record with 63 to win Texas Open
SAN ANTONIO (AP) ― Martin Laird tied the course record with a 9-under 63 to hold off Rory McIlroy to earn his first win in more than two years at the Texas Open.Laird began Sunday four shots behind leader Billy Horschel, but posted a bogey-free round to finish 14 under overall and earn the third win of his career, his first since the Arnold Palmer Invitational in 2011. The Scottish golfer entered the week having missed four of eight cuts this year.McIlroy, the world’s No. 2, began the day at 6 u
April 8, 2013
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Park runs away with Kraft Nabisco
RANCHO MIRAGE, California (AP) ― Park In-bee doubled her lead to six strokes on the opening hole Sunday and ran away with the Kraft Nabisco Championship for her second major title.The 24-year-old South Korean player made a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-4 first, while playing partner Lizette Salas had a double bogey for a three-stroke swing.“That made my day much easier, that’s for sure,” Park said. “I holed a long one on the first hole. A birdie start is always a good thing. That gave me a lot
April 8, 2013
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Park In-bee takes 3-shot lead at Kraft Nabisco
RANCHO MIRAGE, California (AP) ― Park In-bee opened a three-stroke lead in the Kraft Nabisco Championship, twice hitting to 2 1/2 feet to set up back-nine birdies in a bogey-free round.The 24-year-old South Korean shot a 5-under 67 on Saturday to reach 12 under at Mission Hills, putting her in position for her second major title and second victory of the year. She won the 2008 U.S. Women’s Open and added her fourth LPGA Tour title in February in Thailand.Lizette Salas, a stroke behind Park enter
April 7, 2013
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Choi shares Kraft Nabisco lead
RANCHO MIRAGE, California (AP) ― Suzann Pettersen and Choi Na-yeon pushed each other to the top of the leaderboard in perfect morning conditions in the Kraft Nabisco Championship.Jodi Ewart Shadoff matched them late Thursday afternoon with a scrambling par on the par-5 18th after her drive went to the right and found the deep rough behind a tall tree.“There were two options,” said Ewart Shadoff, the 25-year-old Englishwoman in her second full year on the LPGA Tour. “Punch fade it around the tree
April 5, 2013