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Bernanke: Costly oil no threat to economy

IndustryJan. 1, 2012
Apple's Jobs puts on lively iPad 2 show

TechnologyJan. 1, 2012
Korean online game limits inch forward, but glacially

TechnologyJan. 1, 2012
Not getting enough sleep? Turn off the technology

TechnologyJan. 1, 2012
Oil slips as OPEC mulls output

IndustryJan. 1, 2012
Korea Post insurance to cut duration gap

Jan. 1, 2012
World in new economic era: GE’s Immelt

IndustryJan. 1, 2012
1 million iPad 2s sold over weekend

IndustryJan. 1, 2012
HP looks to the ‘cloud’

TechnologyJan. 1, 2012
A PlayBook for fighting Apple, Google

IndustryJan. 1, 2012
Some Democrats to fight Obama on Korea FTA

Jan. 1, 2012
Quake impact may spread beyond Japan

MobilityJan. 1, 2012
Honda recalls Civics on fuel leak risk

MobilityJan. 1, 2012
Entrepreneurs flood young stock-rich list
Nineteen entrepreneurs joined the nation’s list of 100 most stock-rich people aged under 45 last year, a conglomerate research firm said Sunday.The record figure, up from 10 a year earlier, included business people who started venture companies in their 20s in the 1990s, according to Chaebul.com, a

Jan. 1, 2012
Overseas investors reap W350tr in stock gains over 20 years
Foreign stock ownership reaches 342 trillion won at yearend, accounting for 30% of total Foreigners have earned 350 trillion won ($307 billion) from investment in Korean shares over the past 20 years, according to the local brokerage industry.Their average earnings since the stock market opened

Jan. 1, 2012
NASA probe circling the moon on New Year's Eve
PASADENA, California (AP) -- As planet Earth rang in the new year, a different kind of countdown was happening at the moon.After a 3{-month journey, a NASA spacecraft flew over the moon's south pole, fired its engine and dropped into orbit Saturday in the first of two back-to-back arrivals over the

TechnologyJan. 1, 2012
Seoul shares expected to slip on eurozone woes
South Korean stocks are projected to trend lower in the first week of the new year, weighed down by nagging concerns over the eurozone debt crisis, analysts said Saturday. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) fell 2.2 percent this week to close at 1,825.74

Dec. 31, 2011
BOK chief says 2012 policy will center on price stability
South Korea’s central bank plans to make maintaining price stability its top priority next year as Asia’s fourth-largest economy remains dogged by persistent inflation risks, its chief said Friday.“Price stability has emerged more than ever before as an important matter of national concern,” Bank of Korea Gov. Kim Choong-soo said in his New Year’s message. “The task before us is to pay even closer attention to achieving our inflation target in 2012.”Kim’s stress on price stability comes as the c

Dec. 30, 2011
Renault Samsung plans Korea’s first mass-produced electric car
Renault Samsung, the local affiliate of French automaker Renault SA, said it plans to introduce the all-electric SM3 to the public in 2013 in what is to become the country’s first mass production of zero-emission cars, CEO Francois Provost said.“We have plans to mass produce EV cars out of our Busan plant, we will confirm the details at the beginning of next year,” Provost recently told The Korea Herald. “For Renault Samsung, (the emergence of electric cars) is a big opportunity because the Kore

MobilityDec. 30, 2011
Brainless fish found off Scotland
Marine Scotland / Courtesy Scottish GovernmentA marine survey around islands off Scotland has found a fish-like creature without a face or a brain, researchers said.The creature and others were recorded during a government-backed survey of the waters around Scotland's coast, using underwater video a

TechnologyDec. 30, 2011