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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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Man convicted after binge eating to avoid military service
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First snow to fall in Seoul on Wednesday
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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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4 in 10 households to own tablet this year
Four in 10 Korean households are expected to have a tablet PC this year, according to Strategy Analytics.The global research firm said that Korea’s tablet penetration rate per household is forecast to stand at around 44 percent in 2014.The rate lags behind other advanced high-tech economies. North America’s penetration rate is forecast to reach 54.1 percent this year, and 39.8 percent in the eurozone. Samsung Galaxy tablet devices sit on display at Samsung Electronics’ pavilion at the Mobile Wor
May 18, 2014
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Cuba’s mobile email experiment causes chaos
HAVANA (AP) ― On an island where most people have no Internet access, the arrival of mobile phone email service was embraced with joy.Tens of thousands of Cubans began emailing like crazy in March ― for days, until the service started to fail, taking much of Cuba’s already shaky voice and text-messaging mobile service down with it.The island’s aging cellphone towers became swamped by the new flood of email traffic, creating havoc for anyone trying to use the system. Users had to make eight or ni
May 18, 2014
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Rio official: Water pollution targets won’t be met
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ― Rio de Janeiro’s environment secretary has acknowledged that pledges to drastically reduce the amount of pollution that flows into Guanabara Bay before the 2016 Olympics will not be met.In a letter obtained Saturday by the Associated Press, Carlos Francisco Portinho said the construction of two new sewage treatment facilities would lead to a 50 percent reduction in the levels of pollution flowing into the bay.Olympic sailing events are to be held in the Guanabara Bay, and o
May 18, 2014
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Mobile firms get back to business
Korea’s three mobile carriers are set to face off in a fierce race to attract and secure customers as SK Telecom and LG Uplus resume operations next week after business suspensions for doling out excessive subsidies.KT, the No. 2 player, has been the only one operating since April 27, and has successfully attracted subscribers away from its competitors.The company saw some 194,000 customers, or around 11,000 a day, switch to its services during the 17 days since it restarted its operations.This
May 15, 2014
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Line opens pop-up store in Hong Kong
Line characters in Hong Kong (Naver)Local Internet giant Naver has opened a pop-up store in Hong Kong featuring products of characters from its Line mobile messenger. The company said the store is the fifth of its kind overseas after Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. “The long lines in front of the shop to buy Line’s character products show the rising popularity of Line and its characters in Hong Kong,” a Line spokesperson said. “The popularity now matches those in Japan, Thailand and Ta
May 15, 2014
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Cyclones migrate out of tropics
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Tropical cyclones worldwide are moving out of the tropics and more toward the poles and generally larger populations, likely because of global warming, a surprising new study finds. Atlantic hurricanes, however, don’t follow this trend.While other studies have looked at the strength and frequency of the storms, which are called hurricanes in North America, this is the first study that looks at where they are geographically when they peak. It found in the last 30 years, tropical
May 15, 2014
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Sewol sailors indicted on charges of homicide
The captain of the Sewol and three other key crew members were indicted on charges of homicide Thursday. The 11 other crew members were indicted for manslaughter. The four key sailors -- the captain, chief mate, second mate and the chief engineer -- were charged with homicide out of willful negligence. All crewmen are accused of violating the rescue rule and negligence resulting in death. “(The investigation team) charged the captain with homicide because he did not take any measures in the whol
May 15, 2014
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[Graphic News] West Antarctic glaciers collapsing at unstoppable pace, NASA says
Six glaciers in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, are in an irreversible retreat, threatening to increase sea levels, according to a new study by NASA. The loss of the entire western part of Antarctica could raise global sea levels by 1.2 meters in the centuries to come, the study suggested. The Amundsen Sea includes some of the biggest and fastest-moving glaciers on Earth, and their retreat is known to be a major driver of global sea-level increases.NASA estimates that the loss of the glaciers in t
May 14, 2014
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Bringing characters to life
Character merchandising used to be a business belonging to traditional content producers with established retail distribution channels, such as Disney and Warner Bros.That is no longer the case, thanks in part to mobile and software technology that has allowed everyone, including mobile messaging services, to break into the character business both online and offline.KakaoTalk and Line, Korea’s two biggest mobile messaging services, are bringing their unique and funny characters from their chat s
May 14, 2014
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A healing gift of music
They say that time heals all wounds.For young musician hopefuls such as Lee Hyung-jin and Lee Hyun-soo, not only time but also music has helped them overcome their personal difficulties and allow their scars to heal as they discovered their gifts.Both coming from poor backgrounds with their parents constantly working long hours, the lives of Hyung-jin and Hyun-soo, who are not related, were never easy. Hyung-jin lives in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, and Hyun-soo in Icheon, Gyeonggi Provi
May 14, 2014
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Google Chromecast hits Korean market
Internet giant Google made the Asian debut of its streaming stick, Chromecast, in Korea on Tuesday.The device-to-TV casting dongle, priced at 49,900 won ($48.80), enables smartphone or tablet PC users to watch YouTube videos or movies purchased on the Google Play application platform on TV screens, the company said. Casting to the TV is currently only available on certain applications, including local streaming services Tving and Hoppin, but Google plans to expand its collaboration with other co
May 14, 2014
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People, process, technology: Perfect combination for cloud computing
Jay HahmCloud computing is no longer a buzzword. It is now a critical and strategic component for businesses across sectors. The cloud initiative means that IT decision makers have to sort through a copious amount of information to make the right choices, focusing on a holistic view of all aspects of the organization ― not only IT ― that are impacted, including people, processes and technology. Effectively defining and building a complete cloud implementation can lead to a total business transfo
May 14, 2014
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IBM CEO faces doubts as growth proves elusive
International Business Machines chief executive officer Ginni Rometty will face a skeptical audience when she speaks to Wall Street analysts tomorrow. As she’s worked to revamp the company in a shifting technology industry, Rometty has kept herself bound to IBM’s target of at least $18 a share in adjusted earnings this year ― a number that 60 percent of analysts anticipate the company will miss. After eight consecutive quarters of revenue declines, she must start increasing sales or reduce expen
May 14, 2014
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Wandering Oregon wolf may have found a mate
MEDFORD, Oregon (AP) ― Oregon’s famous wandering gray wolf, dubbed OR-7, may have found the mate he has trekked thousands of kilometers looking for, wildlife authorities said. It’s likely the pair spawned pups, and if confirmed, the rare predators would be the first breeding pair of wolves in the Oregon’s Cascade Range since the early 1900s.Officials said cameras in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in the southern Cascades captured several images of what appears to be a female wolf in th
May 14, 2014
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Universities on high alert for measles and tuberculosis
(123rf)Universities are on alert as some students have been diagnosed with tuberculosis or measles, health officials said.It was confirmed that among the 11 people infected with measles, nine are students at Kookmin University in Seoul and one is a student at nearby Kwangwoon University, said disease control officials. Another 49 people are also suspected of having measles and among them 45 were identified as Kookmin University students, the agency added.“It was found that the disease first brok
May 14, 2014
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Samsung issues 'deep apology' over prolonged leukemia dispute
Samsung Electronics Co. officially apologized and promised compensation Wednesday over the sufferings and deaths of its semiconductor workers from illnesses that family members claim are work-related."Several workers at our production facilities suffered from leukemia and other incurable diseases, which also lead to some deaths," said Kwon Oh-hyun, the CEO of the electronics giant."We should have settled the issue earlier, and we are deeply heartbroken that we failed to do so and express our dee
May 14, 2014
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Chairman urges LG to go ‘back to basics’
LG Group chairman Koo Bon-moo stressed the importance of fundamentals at work during a seminar with executives on Tuesday. His comments came at time when safety concerns, raised by the recent ferry disaster, have swept the nation. “We must pay the keenest attention to the fundamentals while doing businesses to detect any negligence in safety or quality,” the chairman told the top executives of LG’s affiliates at its headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul. LG Group chairman Koo Bon-moo“If the company be
May 13, 2014
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Red wine ingredient no magic pill: study
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― U.S. researchers may have found a flaw with the “French Paradox,” or the notion that people who drink red wine can somehow avoid the pitfalls of a high-fat diet. A study out Monday found that resveratrol ― one of the highly touted antioxidants in red wine ― did not help people live longer. Nor did it help people avoid cancer or heart disease, according to the research published in JAMA Internal Medicine, a journal of the American Medical Association.“This study suggests that d
May 13, 2014
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More chemicals suspected of damaging sperm
German and Danish scientists on Monday said they had identified dozens of chemicals, including some used in hygiene and consumer products, that interfere with male fertility by damaging sperm.Writing in the journal EMBO Reports, the team said a third of 96 compounds they tested using a new technique had an adverse effect on sperm.The chemicals included 4-methylbenzylidene camphor (4-MBC), which is an ultraviolet filter used in some sunscreens, and the anti-bacterial agent Triclosan, used in some
May 13, 2014
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Antarctic ice melting ‘unstoppable’
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Ice is melting in the western Antarctic at an “unstoppable” pace, scientists said Monday, warning that the discovery holds major consequences for global sea level rise in the coming decades.The speedy melting means that prior calculations of sea level rise worldwide made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will have to be adjusted upward, scientists told reporters. “A large sector of the West Antarctic ice sheet has gone into a state of irreversible retreat. It ha
May 13, 2014
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