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Chuseok still is a headache for couples
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N. Korea launches trash balloons toward S. Korea for 2nd day: JCS
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Heat wave watch issued for Seoul; latest on record
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Students suffer sleep deprivation, fatigue, suicidal thoughts
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Nearly 2,000 aging separated family members die in first 8 months of year: gov't data
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Popular tourist destinations beckon Chuseok holidaymakers
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Yoon's approval rating hits new low: poll
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On the road for Chuseok? Popular rest stop foods await
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Only 12 pct of unsafe food imports taken off market for disposal: report
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Naver Map starts providing natural disaster information
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Japanese boy, 3, ...gets lung part from mother
TOKYO (AFP) ― Part of a Japanese woman’s lung was transplanted to her 3-year-old son Monday in what was described as the world’s first successful graft of a middle lobe from a living donor, a hospital said.Lung transplants from living donors usually involve transferring the inferior lobe which has greater breathing capacity.But a middle lobe was transplanted in this case as it is smaller than an inferior lobe and is of the right size for the boy, the Okayama University Hospital said.The boy and
World NewsJuly 2, 2013
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Painter awarded $58m in bar beating
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― A 43-year-old house painter so badly brain damaged that he cannot speak has been awarded $58 million for a beating in a bar that left him with half his skull permanently bashed in.Antonio Lopez Chaj appeared at a news conference Monday with lawyers who announced the award handed down against a security company by a jury in Torrance Superior Court on Friday.They said it was among the largest damage awards ever given to one person in California.Chaj was attacked at a mid-Wilshir
World NewsJuly 2, 2013
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Kylie Minogue releases fashion retrospective book
NEW YORK (AP) ― Before Lady Gaga, Rihanna or Katy Perry married music with fashion, there was Kylie Minogue.The singer compiled a look at her fashion choices, particularly her stage costumes, in a new book called “Kylie Fashion” (Running Press).“It was lots of fun to look at my life in fashion through the years,” said Minogue in a recent interview. “There’ve been ups and downs and fabulous moments and not so fabulous moments, but basically the book was a celebration of 25 years.’’Yes, the 45-yea
World NewsJuly 2, 2013
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Qatari wins IOC’s top award for women in sports
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) ― A sports administrator who helped Qatar send its first female athletes to the Olympics received the IOC’s top award for women in sports on Monday. Ahlam Salem Mubarak Al Mana was awarded the annual World Trophy on Monday for her work as president of the Qatar Women’s Sport Committee.The International Olympic Committee called her “a pioneer for women’s rights in Qatar” and said she “has played an active role in popularizing sports among schoolgirls” in the Gulf countr
World NewsJuly 2, 2013
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Paul agrees to extension with Clips
Chris Paul’s answer was brief, just like his time on the free agent market.“I’M IN!!!” he wrote Monday on Twitter.He will be staying with the Clippers, the longtime losers he helped turned into a division champion in just two seasons.Dwight Howard will need more time to think.Free agency opened Monday in the NBA with the focus on the pair of Los Angeles All-Stars, though Paul took himself off the market only hours after shopping season started.Agent Leon Rose confirmed Paul’s return, which had b
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Williams ousted at Wimbledon
LONDON (AP) ― For 34 matches over 4 1/2 months, on hard, clay or grass courts, Serena Williams was unbeaten ― and, in the minds of many, unbeatable.So it was apt, somehow, that the longest winning streak in women’s tennis since 2000 would end at this memorably unpredictable edition of Wimbledon, where up is down, where seedings and pedigree mean nothing whatsoever, where even five-time champion Williams looked lost at the start and, most surprisingly of all, the finish of her fourth-round match.
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Blatter: Confed Cup a success
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ― FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Monday declared the Confederations Cup a success despite clashes between police and protesters near some matches.As host nation Brazil was beating Spain in Sunday’s final of the 2014 World Cup warmup tournament, police officers were using tear gas canisters and stun grenades outside Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium.Blatter said he was “not going to discuss” police actions to repel protests outside some of the grounds in Brazil over the last t
SoccerJuly 2, 2013
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Reds rough up Giants in rain-shortened game
CINCINNATI (AP) ― Things had gotten so bad for Cincinnati’s offense that the Reds couldn’t even remember the last time anything amounted to a rally. Finally, they got a reference point.Todd Frazier homered and drove in four runs Monday night, leading the Reds out of their offensive slump to an 8-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants in a game shortened to six innings because of rain.Frazier had an RBI single and a three-run homer off left-hander Michael Kickham (0-3), who has been hit hard in
BaseballJuly 2, 2013
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PGA Tour to adopt ban of anchored strokes
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (AP) ― The PGA Tour said Monday it would follow a new rule that bans the anchored putting stroke used by four of the last six major champions, asking instead Monday for a temporary reprieve for those who play the game for fun.The announcement Monday after a PGA Tour board meeting is the final piece of confirmation from a major golf organization for Rule 14-1b, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2016 when the next “Rules of Golf” is published. The rule makes it illegal for playe
GolfJuly 2, 2013
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Korea, Iran to ink deal on sports exchange
South Korea and Iran will soon sign a new agreement on a sports exchange, officials here said Tuesday.Yoo Jin-ryong, South Korean minister of culture, sports and tourism, and Mohammad Abbasi, Iranian minister of youth affairs and sports, will sign off on a memorandum of understanding on their sports exchange programs on Wednesday, officials said.According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism here, the agreement will cover the bilateral exchange of athletes, coaches and other sports exp
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Park In-bee to chase fourth straight major at British Open
SOUTHAMPTON, New York (AP) ― Park In-bee hoped to win a Grand Slam.A career Grand Slam, that is. The single-season variety was just too outlandish.Yet she’ll head to St. Andrews next month for the Women’s British Open with a chance to become the first player to go 4 for 4 in majors ― whatever that may be called, now that there are five majors in a year.“Whether I do it or not, I’m just a very lucky person,” Park said Sunday after winning the U.S. Women’s Open for the second time.Park’s four-shot
GolfJuly 2, 2013
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MBC to abolish its college music competition
South Korean broadcast network MBC said on Tuesday it will discontinue its time-honored college music competition, citing its declining viewer ratings. “College Musicians Festival” started in 1977 and has been deemed the representative program through which amateur musicians often made a high-profile debut thanks to the national broadcast network’s influence. MBC said the program’s popularity and the viewer ratings were relatively low compared to the high production cost. The network said that i
PerformanceJuly 2, 2013
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Gold-winner Yang only raced short course twice
Yang Jung-doo, who brought in Korea’s first 25-meter short course swimming gold at the Incheon Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, said that it was only his second time competing in the discipline at international level.On Sunday, Yang took the gold in the men’s 50-meter freestyle, setting a new Games record in the heats, only to break his own record in the finals.“I trained hard, but I think I achieved good results because my concentration was better than usual,” Yang said. He added that he ha
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Pakistan hopes for better results in 2014
Pakistan‘s four-athlete swimming team failed to qualify for any of the finals of the Incheon Indoor and Martial Arts Games on Monday, but the team expressed high hopes for future Games.On Monday, the second day of the 25-meter short course swimming events at AIMAG, medals in seven categories are up for grabs. The categories are men’s 50-meter breaststroke, men‘s and women’s 50-meter backstroke, men‘s and women’s 100-meter butterfly, and men‘s and women’s 4 X 100-meter freestyle relay. “We were n
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Two Koreans advance to quarterfinals in bowling
Two Koreans advanced to the quarterfinals of the women’s singles bowling event at the 4th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Incheon on Monday. The national team‘s youngest bowler Hwang Yeon-ju comfortably topped the women’s singles preliminary round, advancing to the knockout stage as top seed.The 21-year-old was 25 pins behind her teammate Son Yun-hee until the second game, but rolled a strong 267 in the third game to take the lead, while Son had a disappointing 189. Hwang finished the las
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Singapore’s Tan grabs women’s bowling title
Singapore’s Daphne Tan won her first gold medal by defeating China’s Dongdong Chen in the women’s bowling finals on Monday.The 22-year-old, who denied a home victory to Asian Games gold medalist Son Yun-hee of Korea in the semi-finals, started off well with a strike in the second frame and another two in the eighth and the final frame to win the title with 182. Meanwhile, Chen, who defeated Hwang Yeon-ju of Korea in the other semi-final, started off with a split in her opening frame and had anot
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Disappointment for Korean bowlers despite bronze
Korean bowlers Son Yun-hee and Hwang Yeon-ju claimed two bronze medals in the women‘s single finals on Monday. “We are still glad to have won medals. We will make our every effort for the doubles and the team of four,” said Son, a Guangzhou Asian Games gold medalist. “It would have been better if either one of us made it to the finals.”Hwang, seven years Son’s junior, also has experience of gold from the 2012 World Youth Championships. “I did well in the quarterfinals but I could have done bette
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Vietnam minister meets Incheon Games organizer
Vietnam‘s Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh and three other senior officials of the Southeast Asian country met with Kim Young-soo, president of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee, on Monday.They discussed bilateral cooperation for the successful staging of the Asian Games, the committee said. Vietnam was elected in the general session of the Olympic Council of Asia in Macau on Nov. 8 last year to host the next Asian Games in 2019.Hoang Vinh, one of vice presi
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Korea’s Chang Gyu-cheol takes men’s 100-meter butterfly
Korea’s Chang Gyu-cheol took the gold medal in the men’s 100-meter butterfly at the Incheon Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games on Sunday.Chang, who entered the finals in fifth place, finished the race in 51.56 seconds, slashing his qualifying time by more than 2 seconds.“The time in the preliminaries was good, so I was worried about the evening race,” Chang said. Regarding his time, Chang joked that he was not sure whether to be satisfied as he was unable to see the results due to bad eyesight.
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China wins men’s freestyle relay, pushes gold count to 4
China won the gold medal in the men’s 4X100-meter freestyle relay at the Incheon Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games on Monday, with a new Games record of 3 minutes 15.74 seconds.China’s qualifying time was 3 minutes 20.89 seconds, the fasted time in the preliminaries. With the win, China took four of the seven gold medals on offer on the second day of the 25-meter short course swimming.China was followed by Hong Kong, whose team cut its qualifying time by about 4 seconds to 3 minutes 18.62 seco
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