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When Sunny K. Park arrived in the United States in 1974 with just $200 in his pocket, he had little idea that he would one day become a successful Korean American entrepreneur with extensive ties to Washington. Park, now 84 and president of the American Korean Friendship Society, was 32 when he moved to Indiana to study at Indiana University. Having grown up in poverty and survived the 1950-53 Korean War, he recalled seeing America as a “paradise” filled with opportunities. Two years later, however, he left school to support his family and began selling life insurance door to door. His involvement with the Korean immigrant community eventually led him into a different line of work. While helping newly arrived Koreans find jobs, Park noticed growing demand in the commercial cleaning industry. “Korean immigrants came into the U.S., but they had a tough time to get a job, so I helped them and that brought me to a new industry — commercial cleaning,” Park told The Korea Times. “That business became so popular and it doubled in just one year. I gave up the insurance sales and star

Prime Minister Han Seong-sook said Sunday that the government will strive to lay the groundwork for the resumption of dialogue between Seoul and Pyongyang and seek peaceful co-existence. "Efforts will be made to open the door for dialogue between South Korea and North Korea and to hold talks on peace and joint prosperity," Han said, as she attended a presidential sporting competition for displaced North Korean residents held in Seoul. She called inter-Korean division a "reality," also highlighting that the pains of displaced residents and separated families are "ongoing." "Our efforts to open the road to peaceful coexistence of South Korea and North Korea cannot stop," said the prime minister, asking for the participants' support in establishing peace and thanking them for contributing to South Korea's economic development and democratization.

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KATHMANDU, OCTOBER 18Maha Ashtami, the eighth day of Bada Dashain, is being observed across Nepal today with prayers to Goddess Durga and rituals at temples and homes.Devotees have...

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A 93-year-old man has been arrested after a woman, 79, was stabbed at a shopping centre in Blacktown in Sydney’s west.

A 13-year-old boy has been charged over a string of alleged sex offences on walking trails in Narrabeen in Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

Hundreds of jobs are being offered to workers caught in the fallout of the blast furnace closure at the Whyalla Steelworks.

A woman has been accused of assaulting a police officer after a series of hit-run incidents in Adelaide.

Two people have been killed and another 11 were injured after a ute ploughed through a football game in Kansas.