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Actor Jung Woo-sung admits to being father of model Moon Ga-bi’s child
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Trump picks ex-N. Korea policy official as his principal deputy national security adviser
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First snow to fall in Seoul on Wednesday
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Wealthy parents ditch Korean passports to get kids into international school
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S. Korea not to attend Sado mine memorial: foreign ministry
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Man convicted after binge eating to avoid military service
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Toxins at 622 times legal limit found in kids' clothes from Chinese platforms
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[Weekender] Korea's traditional sauce culture gains global recognition
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BLACKPINK's Rose stays at No. 3 on British Official Singles chart with 'APT.'
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Korea to hold own memorial for forced labor victims, boycotting Japan’s
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15 minutes to determine fate of Arirang 5 satellite
Nearly eight years have passed since South Korea began developing its latest multipurpose satellite, but the fate of the much anticipated project will be determined in just 15 minutes after liftoff, launch organizers said Thursday.The Arirang 5 satellite was set to be launched at 8:39 p.m. (11:39 p.m. KST) from Russia’s Yasny launch site, some 1,800 kilometers southeast of Moscow, using a Dnepr three-stage rocket converted from Russia‘s conventional intercontinental ballistic missile.In 9.2 seco
Aug. 22, 2013
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LG Display develops Quad HD LCD panel
LG Display Co., a South Korean panel maker, said Wednesday that it has developed a new HD LCD panel for smartphones that offers four times clearer images than existing HD LCD displays.The 5.5-inch Quad HD panel improves contrast and vividness compared to current mobile displays, and enables users to enjoy a full view of PC-version web pages at a single glance without image distortion. This is in contrast to current Full HD displays, which only realize three quarters of a full screen.Also, even w
Aug. 21, 2013
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LG Chem to supply Japan’s Softbank Mobile
LG Chem Ltd., the world’s largest lithium-ion battery maker, said Wednesday that it has signed a deal with Japan’s second-largest mobile carrier to provide batteries starting this month.LG Chem said the batteries will be used as uninterrupted power supply, or UPS, in 130,000 base stations of Softbank Mobile Corp. The UPS is an electrical apparatus that provides emergency power to base stations when the input power fails.The total electricity of the batteries to be provided to the Japanese mobile
Aug. 21, 2013
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Astronaut recounts terror
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― The Italian astronaut who nearly drowned in his helmet during a spacewalk last month is sharing more details about the terrifying experience, revealing how he felt all alone and frantically tried to come up with a plan to save himself.Luca Parmitano wrote in his online blog, posted Tuesday, that he could no longer see as the water sloshed around in his helmet outside the International Space Station.“But worse than that, the water covers my nose ― a really awful sen
Aug. 21, 2013
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Swedish museum recovers lost scientific artifact
AMSTERDAM (AP) ― A rare 16th-century scientific instrument used by early astronomers that has been missing from a Swedish museum for around a decade has been recovered and will be returned this week, the London-based Art Loss Register says.The brass-and-silver astrolabe, made in 1590 and worth around half a million euros ($750,000), turned up when an Italian collector discovered that the piece was listed as missing and came forward to return it, Register Director Chris Marinello said.The collect
Aug. 21, 2013
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SK Hynix builds analysis center for R&D
SK Hynix on Tuesday said it has established an analysis center within its research and development center in its headquarter city of Icheon, Gyeonggi Province. Analysis is an essential step in semiconductor development, especially as demand is growing for intricate and more developed technology procedures, SK Hynix said. “Semiconductors need to be developed without a centimeter of error, for which analysis plays a key role,” said SK Hynix CEO Park Sung-wook. “I hope our new center will lay the f
Aug. 20, 2013
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CIA acknowledges Area 51 but not UFOs
LAS VEGAS (AP) ― UFO buffs and believers in alien encounters are celebrating the CIA’s clearest acknowledgement yet of the existence of Area 51, the top-secret Cold War test site that has been the subject of elaborate conspiracy theories for decades.The recently declassified documents have set the tinfoil-hat crowd abuzz, though there’s no mention in the papers of UFO crashes, black-eyed extraterrestrials or staged moon landings.Audrey Hewins, an Oxford, Maine, woman who runs a support group for
Aug. 20, 2013
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S.F. Bay Area building demolition fuels quake study
HAYWARD, California (AP) ― It took just seconds for a 13-story building overlooking San Francisco Bay to implode, spewing smoke and chunks of concrete as it crumbled into a heap of rubble. But U.S. Geological Survey scientist Rufus Catchings was marveling less at the visual spectacle than what he could feel with his feet.As the building collapsed, the vibrations Catchings noted told him that a novel experiment to study one of the most dangerous fault lines in the country likely was a success. “I
Aug. 20, 2013
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LG Display keeps lead in large LCD panel market
South Korean display giant LG Display Co. kept its dominant position in the market for liquid crystal display (LCD) panels that are 9.1 inches or larger in the first half, data showed Tuesday.Shipments by LG Display reached 88.96 million units in the January-June period, accounting for 26.2 percent of a total 339 million units shipped globally, according to the data by market researcher DisplaySearch.The large LCD panels are usually used for computer monitors, laptop computer screens and TVs.LG
Aug. 20, 2013
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Earliest iron artefacts came from meteorite
The earliest iron artefacts ever found -- funeral beads strung around bodies in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian cemetery -- were made from a meteorite, archaeologists said on Monday.Hi-tech scanning of the beads, discovered by British archaeologists in the Lower Egypt village of el-Gerzeh in 1911, shows the metal came from a rock in outer space, they said.The nine small beads come from two burial sites dated to around 3,200 BC, where they were found in necklaces along with exotic terrestrial minerals
Aug. 20, 2013
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Samsung flat TVs maintain top spot in Europe: data
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of TVs, maintained its lead in Europe’s flat TV market in the first half of the year, industry data showed on Monday.The South Korean tech behemoth accounted for 38 percent of Europe’s flat TV market in the January-June period, according to the data compiled by market researcher GfK.LG Electronics Inc., Samsung’s hometown rival, came in second with a 16.6 percent share, followed by Phillips with a 9.9 percent share, they showed.Samsung accounted
Aug. 19, 2013
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China's share in Samsung Electronics' net sales falls
Samsung Electronics Co. is struggling in the Chinese market, despite its steady sales growth in other parts of the world, according to company sales data released on Sunday.Samsung's net sales amounted to 77.2 trillion won (US$69.4 billion) in the first half of this year, its regulatory filing showed.The Americas accounted for 26.7 percent, or 20.6 trillion won, of the electronics giant's half-year turnover, followed by 23.3 percent for Asia and Africa, excluding China, and 21.5 percent for Euro
Aug. 18, 2013
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In ads, Coke insists sweetener safe
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Faced with falling sales of its diet soda, Coca-Cola is running ads in the United States that say its sugar-free beverages, sweetened with the chemical aspartame, are safe.The print ads which began appearing Wednesday in major U.S. newspapers show a pair of laughing women, one holding a bottle of diet Coke in hand, alongside text that reads: “Quality products you can always feel good about.”The copy beneath the picture says, “The safety of aspartame is supported by more than 2
Aug. 15, 2013
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Gynecological infections
Infections in the female reproductive tract can be divided into lower tract infections, such as vaginitis or cervicitis, and upper tract infections, which cause pelvic inflammatory disease. The characteristic symptoms of vaginitis include itching, discharge, odor, pain during intercourse, and painful urination which are common symptoms that women visit gynecology clinics for. Bacterial vaginosis is the most common cause of vaginitis. It is not an infection by specific bacteria, but rather caused
Aug. 15, 2013
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Korea to launch first brain bank next year
Korea’s first state-run brain tissue repository will be established next year to assist research on neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s and autism, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said Thursday.The planned “brain bank” in Daegu is expected to collect, store and distribute brain and spinal cord tissue for research.The Korea Brain Research Institute will take charge of designing and operating the project to study neurodegenerative diseases and develop t
Aug. 15, 2013
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Samsung, Apple dispute to drag on: expert
The patent dispute between Samsung and Apple is most likely to drag on as neither side has been given a “definitive victory,” an expert on the issue said.“The assumption is that in the background there are discussions between the companies seeking terms on which to settle their differences, likely through cross-marketing agreements, but so far neither company has been able to score a definitive victory that changes the stakes between them to give one side a definitive advantage over the other. A
Aug. 15, 2013
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[Newsmaker] LG’s G2 phone garners rave reviews overseas
A wave of positive reviews overseas for LG Electronics’ newest smartphone, the G2, is fanning the company’s hopes for better luck in the market this year. CNET called it a “speed demon,” noting that the “menus flew by with almost blinding swiftness.” Trusted Reviews claimed it was not just LG’s best phone so far, but is “shaping up to be one of the best phones ever made.” Ubergizmo raved about the decision to install power control buttons on the back of the device, saying they have become “beli
Aug. 14, 2013
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Samsung launches curved OLED TVs in U.S.
Samsung Electronics Co., the world‘s largest flat TV maker, rolled out its first 55-inch curved OLED TV with full HD capabilities in the U.S. with a price tag of $8,999.Samsung Electronics follows the footsteps of its local rival LG Electronics Inc., which started receiving orders in April for the world’s first-ever curved OLED TVs. In June, Samsung introduced the TV set on its home turf, joining the race for next-generation TV market. Consumers in the U.S. can order the 55-inch curved display T
Aug. 14, 2013
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KAIST unveils foldable electric vehicle
A group of scientists from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed what is claimed to be the country’s first foldable electric vehicle, the school announced on Tuesday. Developed by Seo In-soo and his research team, the Armadillo-T uses a 13.6 kWh battery and four independent in-wheel motors that enable it to reach 60 kilometers per hour and travel approximately 100 kilometers on a single charge.The small, battery-powered vehicle weighs less than 500 kilograms and measur
Aug. 13, 2013
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Kakao Talk questioned on U.S. crime suspicions: reports
The chief executives of Kakao Talk, one of the most used mobile messenger services here, were allegedly questioned by the U.S. authorities in June over a possible connection to a crime ring. The reports said the authorities believed the company chairman Kim Beom-su and co-CEO Lee Sir-goo, along with a vice president, could have been working with a Korean-American crime organization to illegally import stolen phones to Korea. Lee, however, flatly denied the reports, saying that they were not eve
Aug. 13, 2013
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