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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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Reading key to improving imagination
Playing video or computer games can positively affect children, contrary to the popular belief that they can make them violent and corrupt their minds.Many scientists believe that games can help kids become more organized as they follow instructions and solve problems while going through mazes in a fantasy world and encountering obstacles.Nexon Korea’s flagship “Maple Story” game seeks to do that for kids by helping them develop their imaginations and organizational skills as they play a role an
April 16, 2014
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Crisis or opportunity? Pantech at crossroads
A rocky road stretches ahead for Pantech, the nation’s smallest handset maker that is struggling to stay afloat in a quickly saturating smartphone market. There are now talks of foreign companies such as Micromax seeking a stake in it, but whether this will be a blessing or a curse for the company is still up for debate. As Pantech has confirmed that several overseas companies including Indian handset maker Micromax have shown interest in the investment, concerns are rising about the matchup and
April 16, 2014
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T. rex gets new home in Smithsonian dinosaur hall
WASHINGTON (AP) ― More than 100 years after dinosaurs were first displayed on the National Mall, T. rex ― the king ― is joining the Smithsonian collection after a long journey from Montana.Paleontologists and curators unveiled parts of a nearly complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton Tuesday, including its jaw with teeth as big as bananas, at the National Museum of Natural History. FedEx delivered the dinosaur bones in a special truck carrying 16 carefully packed crates that were kept at room temper
April 16, 2014
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Samsung vice chairman says non-memory chip sector facing challenges
The vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., a global leader in semiconductors and mobile phones, said Wednesday that the company's non-memory chip sector is facing major challenges. In a message sent to employees outlining prospects for the second quarter, Kwon Oh-hyun said that while the company's overall semiconductor sales rose in the first three months of 2014, the conditions for large scale integration (LSI) circuits were not upbeat. These chips act as central processing units in sm
April 16, 2014
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LG Uplus to adopt Huawei equipment for LTE-A
LG Uplus, Korea’s third largest mobile carrier, and Huawei, a leading Chinese telecommunication equipment and solutions provider, said Wednesday that they will use WDM/OTN technology for common public radio interface (CPRI) backhaul on LG Uplus’ LTE-A network.They said this marks the world’s first breakthrough in the field of LTE-A backhaul technology.The CPRI-over-WDM/OTN solution enables pooled baseband processing for distributed base stations, saving fiber resources and improving network reli
April 16, 2014
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Are Samsung, Hyundai at odds?
Hyundai Motor Group’s relations with LG Chem and SK Innovation seem to have reached a new high as Hyundai Motor is teaming up with LG Chem, and Hyundai affiliate Kia Motors with SK Innovation, for electric car battery supplies.Hyundai’s luxury Grandeur Hybrid and Sonata Hybrid run on LG batteries, while Kia’s first electric vehicle Soul EV carries those of SK Innovation.Korean auto giant Hyundai Motor was widely expected to clinch supply deals with LG Chem, also a global leader in its sector.But
April 15, 2014
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Samsung SDI develops longer-life curved battery
Samsung SDI, Korea’s second largest lithium-ion battery maker, said Tuesday it has developed a longer-lasting curved battery for smart watches.The company’s rechargeable battery with a capacity of 210 milliamp-hours has five times the battery life offered by existing wearable batteries.Samsung SDI’s curved battery has been embedded in Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Gear Fit smart watches, which was introduced last week with the Galaxy S5 smartphone.Samsung SDI said it was able to produce improved,
April 15, 2014
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Study shows snacks might help avoid fight with spouse
WASHINGTON (AP) ― A quick candy bar may stave off more than hunger. It could prevent major fights between husbands and wives, at least if a new study that used voodoo dolls is right.That’s because low blood sugar can make spouses touchy, researchers propose.In fact, it can make them “hangry,” a combination of hungry and angry, said Ohio State University psychology researcher Brad Bushman.“We need glucose for self-control,” said Bushman, lead author of the study, which was released Monday in the
April 15, 2014
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Mars’ halcyon times may have been fleeting
PARIS (AFP) ― Cold and dry today, Mars was previously warm and wet but possibly only at intervals, a study suggests.Scientists have long puzzled over what happened to the water, the precious stuff of life, on the Red Planet.Unmanned spacecraft have sent home tantalizing images of gouged canyons, valleys and sedimentary deltas, while landers have found hydrous rocks, all suggesting Mars at one time hosted hundreds of kilometers of rivers and lakes.Today, though, Mars is too cold and the pressure
April 15, 2014
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KT to raise $1b via debt sales
South Korea's top fixed-line operator, KT Corp., said Tuesday it will raise $1 billion by selling bonds to overseas investors as it aims to raise cash for debt payments in the coming months.Of the amount, $650 million will mature in three years and the remaining $350 million in five years.The three-year bonds will carry an interest rate 100 basis points above the yield on three-year U.S. Treasurys. The rate of the five-year bonds will be 110 basis points higher than the government bonds of the s
April 15, 2014
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Samsung to announce stance on deaths of employees from leukemia
Samsung Electronics said Monday it will soon announce its official position on the sufferings and deaths of its semiconductor workers from leukemia that family members and activist groups blame on the exposure to lethal chemicals at its plants.Rep. Sim Sang-jung of the minor opposition Justice Party had said on Wednesday she will propose a bill urging Samsung to apologize and compensate the families of the victims who died from leukemia after working at the firms’ chip-making facilities.Advocacy
April 14, 2014
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FTC slaps KT with 2.08b won fine for forcing unfair business contract
South Korea’s antitrust watchdog said Monday it had fined KT Corp., the country’s top fixed-line operator, 2.08 billion won ($2 million) for forcing an unjust contract on a local electronics manufacturer.According to the FTC, KT placed orders for 200,000 units with an initial production of 30,000 units of a low-end tablet PC, named the K-PAD, in 2010 from Enspert. KT was hurrying to release the product in the market before SK Telecom, its industry rival in the mobile carrier business, released S
April 14, 2014
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‘Cost of climate fight modest’
BERLIN (AP) ― The cost of keeping global warming in check is “relatively modest,” but only if the world acts quickly to reverse the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, the head of the U.N.’s expert panel on climate change said Sunday.Such gases, mainly carbon from the burning of fossil fuels, rose on average by 2.2 percent a year in 2000-2010, driven by the use of coal in the power sector, officials said as they launched the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change’s report on mea
April 14, 2014
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NASA approves station supply launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― NASA is pressing ahead with Monday’s planned launch of a supply ship despite a critical computer outage at the International Space Station, promising the situation is safe.Mission managers decided Sunday to proceed with the countdown for the SpaceX capsule, Dragon, already a month late in delivering more than 2 tons of cargo.“We’re good to go,” said NASA space station program manager Mike Suffredini.Suffredini noted the many important supplies aboard the Dragon, in
April 14, 2014
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New microRNA may help diagnose lung cancer: study
Korean researchers have identified a new type of microRNA molecule which suppresses a gene that plays an important part in lung cancer, the National Research Foundation of Korea said Sunday.Further studies on the newly identified miR-9500 can potentially enable early diagnosis of lung cancer and can even be applied to lung cancer treatment, researchers said. The study was presented last month in the online edition of the academic journal Cell Death and Differentiation, published by Nature Publis
April 13, 2014
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Galaxy S5 sales on track at home
Samsung Electronics had sold nearly 120,000 units of its newest smartphone, the Galaxy S5, in Korea as of last week, matching the performance of the previous model, the S4, market watchers said Sunday.The sales translate to roughly 10,000 units daily during the 12 business days from the March 27 launch date to Friday, they said.The S5 accounted for approximately 28 percent of the domestic smartphone market, they added.The smartphone, the latest version in the company’s flagship Galaxy series, wa
April 13, 2014
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Steve Jobs rejected deal with CrucialTec
Many behind-the-scenes stories about Apple’s former CEO Steve Jobs have received attention since he died in 2011.His meeting with Softbank CEO Son Masayoshi, who brought a rough concept image of a phone-capable iPod for a business partnership before the first iPhone was developed, was one of the latest episodes divulged. Another episode related to Steve Jobs and the evolution of the iPhone recently emerged from a local firm.In a recent interview with The Korea Herald, CrucialTec CEO Charles Ahn
April 13, 2014
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Samsung calls Google to its defense in Apple trial
Samsung Electronics called the first of as many as seven witnesses to begin making its case in a $2 billion patent trial that Apple’s true target in the lawsuit is the Android operating system. Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s vice president of Android engineering, testified yesterday in federal court in San Jose, California, about the development of the Android operating system used in Samsung phones. Apple contends, and Samsung denies, that several Android features in Galaxy devices infringe the i
April 13, 2014
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U.N. climate report balances science, politics
BERLIN (AP) ― After racing against the clock in an all-night session, the U.N.’s expert panel on climate change was putting the final touches Saturday on a scientific guide to help governments, industries and regular people take action to stop global warming from reaching dangerous levels.As always when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adopts one of its high-profile reports, the weeklong talks in Berlin were slowed by wrangling between scientists and governments over which words, ch
April 13, 2014
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Galaxy S5 sales on track at home
Samsung Electronics has sold nearly 120,000 units of its newest smartphone Galaxy S5 in South Korea as of last week, matching the performance of the predecessor model, the S4, market watchers said Sunday.The sales translate to roughly 10,000 units daily during the 12 business days from the March 27 launch date to Friday, they said. The S5 accounts for approximately 28 percent of the domestic smartphone market, they added.The smartphone, the latest version in the company's flagship Galaxy series,
April 13, 2014
