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Actor Jung Woo-sung admits to being father of model Moon Ga-bi’s child
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Wealthy parents ditch Korean passports to get kids into international school
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First snow to fall in Seoul on Wednesday
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Man convicted after binge eating to avoid military service
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Final push to forge UN treaty on plastic pollution set to begin in Busan
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Korea to hold own memorial for forced labor victims, boycotting Japan’s
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S. Korea not to attend Sado mine memorial: foreign ministry
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Nvidia CEO signals Samsung’s imminent shipment of AI chips
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Toxins at 622 times legal limit found in kids' clothes from Chinese platforms
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Job creation lowest on record among under-30s
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Samsung, LG lead global TV market
Korean tech giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics maintained their leadership in flat TV sales in the first quarter of this year with their aggregate market share accounting for almost half of the global market.Samsung posted a 29.6 percent market share, up from 26.8 percent last year, topping the world’s flat TV market for the 33rd consecutive quarter in the January-March period, Samsung said Friday, citing a report by market researcher DisplaySearch.Models look at Samsung Electronics’
May 23, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Integrated emergency response system in need
Korea prides itself for being superfast at adopting and building new things like none other.It can make planes, trains and automobiles, and even ships, robots and telecommunication networks faster than most. This culture of “ppalli ppalli,” in which everything has to be taken care of in a matter of seconds, has paved the way for it to become one of Asia’s leading economies.But none of those fancy and fast things Korea likes to show off seem noteworthy when it comes to saving lives in the face of
May 22, 2014
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More men treated for hair loss
(123RF)The number of Korean men seeking treatment for hair loss is seeing an annual increase of approximately 4.8 percent, according to the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service in Seoul.The institution said the number of patients increased from 180,000 in 2009 to 210,000 in 2013. They spent 12.2 billion won ($11.88 million) for their treatment in 2009, and 18 billion won in 2013. About 30 percent of the patients are in their 30s and 40s. “Hair loss can have many causes,” officials of the
May 22, 2014
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Bacteria live even in healthy placentas: study
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Surprising new research shows a small but diverse community of bacteria lives in the placentas of healthy pregnant women, overturning the belief that fetuses grow in a pretty sterile environment.These are mostly varieties of “good germs” that live in everybody. But Wednesday’s study also hints that the make-up of this microbial colony plays a role in premature birth.“It allows us to think about the biology of pregnancy in different ways than we have before, that pregnancy and e
May 22, 2014
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Posttraumatic stress disorder
Jeon Hong-jinAfter experiencing threatening life stress, the nervous system becomes extremely stimulated. This response helps one prepare for similar cases. However, an excessive or abnormal response can be a medical condition. This is when such a state of anxiety remains even without such threats, or after the event has passed. These neurotic symptoms are not normal anxious states to protect oneself from risks; these states are pathological, and are termed posttraumatic stress disorder. Patient
May 22, 2014
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Samsung smartphones top U.S. consumer satisfaction index
Samsung Electronics topped the American Customer Satisfaction Index for smartphones for the first time, helped by its Galaxy lineup.The South Korean company earned a score of 81 on a scale of zero to 100, according to the report by the U.S.-based consumer researcher seen on its website Wednesday. Its score last year was 76.“While Apple still sells nearly twice the number of phones in the United States as Samsung, the South Korean manufacturer comes out on top in one critical metric, customer sat
May 21, 2014
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Power without wheels
They float as if flying through the air. They can move faster and hardly make a sound compared to conventional trains with wheels.Magnetic levitation trains can potentially emerge as South Korea’s next-generation rail transportation, offering a cleaner, quieter commute in metropolitan areas.After 25 years of developing its own urban “maglev” train consisting of homemade components, the country is set to introduce the world’s second maglev that can go up to 110 kph on a 6.1 km track through Inche
May 21, 2014
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Bullet trains go wireless
Consumer electronics such as smartphones and toothbrushes are not the only things that can be charged wirelessly anymore. Korean researchers have developed ways to adapt such technology into high-speed railways.The Korea Railroad Research Institute recently introduced the world’s first bullet train that can be powered wirelessly without overhead electric grids, in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province. The researcher demonstrated the so-called online electric train, named “Hemu,” equipped with the wireless
May 21, 2014
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Samsung to invest $24b in facilities
South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. may spend up to 25 trillion won ($24.39 billion) this year on facility investment, an 8.6 percent increase from 2013, driven by its focus on the organic light-emitting diode panel, industry watchers said Wednesday.The tech firm, the world’s No. 1 smartphone maker and the jewel of top cap conglomerate Samsung Group, had said last month its facility investment this year would be about the same as last year.But Samsung Display Co., whose investments
May 21, 2014
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Siemens moving toward making offer for Alstom
A Deutsche Bahn AG InterCity Express train, manufactured by Siemens AG, sits on a platform at Berlin Central Station in Germany. French officials have urged Alstom to consider a rival offer from Germany’s Siemens, after GE tried to buy the French firm. (Bloomberg)Siemens wrote to Alstom seeking information for a possible bid for the French energy and transportation company Alstom, said French Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg.The Germany company “wrote this morning to Alstom to request details,
May 21, 2014
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Is ‘Snowpiercer’ train possible?
Developing a locomotive powered by nuclear fusion that runs nonstop around the world as seen in the South Korean post-apocalyptic train movie “Snowpiercer” could be possible, scientists said.If the world’s scientists and engineers can figure out a way to make a fusion reactor small enough to fit inside a train’s engine room, and use snow as a water supply to fuel the fusion, a real-life Snowpiercer could be developed like nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines.“If a small-size fusion r
May 21, 2014
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April global temperatures tied for highest since 1880
The dry Maria Cristina reservoir in Spain (EPA-Yonhap)WASHINGTON (AFP) ― April was historically hot across the globe, tying with 2010 for the highest average temperature since 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday.“The globally averaged temperature across land and ocean surfaces tied with 2010 as the highest on record for the month,” NOAA said in a statement.The planet last month was 0.77 degrees Celsius hotter than the 20th-century average.Central Siberia saw te
May 21, 2014
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Mexico plans to extract 13,000-year-old skeleton
MEXICO CITY (AP) ― Mexican experts plan to extract the entire skeleton of a teenage girl who nearly 13,000 years ago toppled into a deep hole in a Mexican cave and died, an official said.Archaeologist Pilar Luna said that so far only a molar and a fragment of a rib have been removed from the underground cave where the remains were found in 2007.Once recovered, the remains will be studied and then displayed, probably in Quintana Roo state where the teenage girl was found, said Luna, deputy direct
May 21, 2014
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KT launches ‘autobahn’ service
Beset by a series of scandals and losses, South Korea’s biggest telecom company KT Corp. is aiming to extricate itself from the doldrums by the latter half of this year by providing the fastest network service available.Introducing its “GiGA” service, which converges the technologies of Wi-Fi, Long Term Evolution and copper wires, KT aims to change the market, in which telecom companies are heavily focused on attracting consumers through irregular pricing strategies.KT CEO Hwang Chang-gyu, a for
May 20, 2014
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NASA: Russia alone can’t end space station work
The International Space Station (File photo)BERLIN (AP) ― Friction between the United States and Russia over Ukraine won’t spell the end of the International Space Station, the head of NASA said Monday, dismissing concerns that one of the world’s most prestigious scientific endeavors could fall victim to political disagreement.The comments by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden come a week after Russia warned that it could cease cooperating with the U.S. on the project after 2020. Although Japan,
May 20, 2014
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China winds could carry childhood disease to Japan
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― An airborne toxin that is blown into Japan from northeast China could be the cause of the mysterious Kawasaki disease, a childhood illness that mostly affects the very young, researchers said Monday.Kawasaki disease occurs worldwide but is most common in Japan and causes fever, rash, peeling fingernails and in about 25 percent of cases it can also lead to coronary aneurysm, a life-threatening ballooning of arteries that supply the heart.While its cause has eluded researchers e
May 20, 2014
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Studies say wildfires worse due to global warming
WASHINGTON (AP) ― The devastating wildfires scorching Southern California offer a glimpse of a warmer and more fiery future, according to scientists and federal and international reports.In the past three months, at least three different studies and reports have warned that wildfires are getting bigger, that man-made climate change is to blame, and it’s only going to get worse with more fires starting earlier in the year. While scientists are reluctant to blame global warming for any specific fi
May 19, 2014
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SpaceX Dragon splashes down to Earth from ISS
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― The commercial cargo ship Dragon returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing back nearly 2 tons of science experiments and old equipment for NASA.“Welcome home, Dragon!” the California-based company said via Twitter.After a one-month visit, the SpaceX cargo ship was set loose Sunday morning. Astronaut Steven Swanson, the station commander, released it using the big robot arm as the craft zoomed more than 400 km above the South Pacific
May 19, 2014
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LG Chem inks patent deal with Japanese battery film maker
LG Chem researchers examine safety reinforced separators at their lab in Daejeon on Sunday. LG Chem LG Chem said Monday that it has inked a patent license deal with Japanese battery film maker UBE MAXELL. Under the agreement, UBE MAXELL, a joint venture between Ube Industries and Hitachi Maxell, can use LG Chem’s separator film technology, called “safety reinforced separator technology,” using a ceramic coating on battery separators. The battery separators play a critical role in separating t
May 19, 2014
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Korea in the information society
MSIP director general Min Won-kiOn May 17, the world celebrated World Telecommunications and Information Society Day. The United Nations established the day to recognize the ever-increasing impact of information and communications technologies in our daily lives. The theme of this year’s WTISD was “Broadband for Sustainable Development.”In recognition of Korea’s contribution to broadband, the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union recognized President Park Geun-hye as a laureate
May 18, 2014
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