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Friday, August 16, 2013

Appreciation of Squirrel Hill hibiscus in the Korean news.

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Gwangju National University of Education president, and University of Pittsburgh alumnus, Park Nam-gi has been in Pittsburgh for a month a...

Cambodian singing troupe tours Pittsburgh churches.

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Churchgoing Pittsburghers interested in seeing a Cambodian orphan singing troupe can find the "Celebration of Hope" tour in the su...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

"There was no fresh bamboo available": Pittsburgh's first panda encounter leads to "rampage" in 1939.

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Flipping through Dubuque, Iowa's Telegraph-Herald , we find a story of Pittsburgh's brief encounter with a panda. From May 2, 193...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Taiwanese catcher "part of scouting revolution" for Pirates organization.

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Via Pittsburgh Prospects . Taiwanese catcher Jin-de Jhang (張進德), currently with single-A Jamestown, is "part of a scouting revolutio...

Library orientation in Japanese, Korean, Chinese for international students at Pitt, August 19 - 23.

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International students at the University of Pittsburgh can sign up for library orientation sessions held in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese . ...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Conflict Kitchen travels to [South] Korea to prepare for [North] Korean menu.

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Popsicles in Wonsan, 2012, from Joseph A. Ferris . In April we wrote about Pittsburgh's Conflict Kitchen adding North Korean take-out...
Friday, August 9, 2013

1967 Korean film Yonggary, 1968 Japanese film Genocide in Dormont tomorrow.

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On August 10, Dormont's Hollywood Theater is hosting "13 Hours of Sci-Fi", which will show 10 classic science-fiction movie...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

WPXI's website looks at protests in Seoul.

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美 WPIX 방송 최대인파 청계광장 촛불집회 뉴스보도.. http://t.co/jaHIWTGPc4 국정원 촛불집회 현장-대선불복이 아닙니다!!! 부정선거무효입니다!!! 무효인 선거에 복종 불복이라는 단어자체가 성립되지 않습니다!!! — 소셜네트워크(...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Pittsburgh City Council issues proclamation to "commend and recognize" Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace.

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Yesterday, ahead of the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Pittsburgh City Council issued a proclamation to "commen...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

Yen's gourmet facade to go.

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Via Google Maps. The distinctive Chinese characters across the street from East Liberty's Target will meet the wrecking ball, accordi...