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Oct 22, 2024 |
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang |Hoonsik Woo
Grandmaster Christopher Yoo, 17, a Korean-American who was hailed as a chess prodigy, has been expelled from the 2024 U.S. Chess Championship for assault. He has also been banned from the St. Louis Chess Club. The incident occurred after Yoo lost to Fabiano Caruana in the fifth round of the championship in St. Louis on October 16. After the game, Yoo allegedly crumpled the score sheet, ran off the hall, and struck a videographer from the back.
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Oct 17, 2024 |
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang |Hoonsik Woo
A Korean-American collector has raised controversy over the acquisition path of several works of Chester Chang’s donation to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), including Lee Jung-seob’s ‘Children Playing on a Pole’. The collector, who says he traded works with Chang, alleges that Chang threatened him and took them from him more than 20 years ago.
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Oct 16, 2024 |
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang
A new playground has opened near 4th Street and Shatto Place in LA’s Koreatown. On October 12, LA City Councilmember Heather Hutt (District 10) hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Shatto Recreation Center to unveil the newly installed play area. According to the District 10 office, the playground features state-of-the-art facilities designed to encourage physical activity for children of all ages.
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Oct 15, 2024 |
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang |Hoonsik Woo
The Koreatown Senior and Community Center is launching a research project on Korean Americans’ stomach cancer in collaboration with USC. On October 11, the Senior Center announced at a press conference that it will conduct a joint research project with USC until June 2026 on the topic of “Smoking and Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Stomach Cancer Risk in the Korean American Community”.
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Oct 15, 2024 |
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang |Hoonsik Woo
Hopes and cheers for the next 50 years of the Korea Daily took to the skies. On October 10, hundreds of paper airplanes filled with hope flew over the ballroom at the Audrey Irmas Pavilion in Los Angeles Koreatown during the Korea Daily’s 50th-anniversary event. The 250 attendees participated in a performance where they each wrote a message of encouragement on a paper airplane and sent it flying.
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