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Trump picks ex-N. Korea policy official as his principal deputy national security adviser
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S. Korea not to attend Sado mine memorial: foreign ministry
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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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Wealthy parents ditch Korean passports to get kids into international school
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Toxins at 622 times legal limit found in kids' clothes from Chinese platforms
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Actor Jung Woo-sung admits to being father of model Moon Ga-bi’s child
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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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It’s a bug’s life: Microbes to inherit the Earth
PARIS (AFP) ― Two billion years from now, an ever-hotter Sun will have cooked the Earth, leaving microbes confined to pockets of water in mountains or caves as the last survivors, a study said.The bleak scenario is proposed by astrobiologist Jack O’Malley-James of the University of St. Andrews, Edinburgh.As the Sun ages over the next billion years, it will become more luminous, cranking up the thermostat on the Earth, O’Malley-James suggests in a computer model presented at a meeting of Britain’
July 4, 2013
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‘Cousin marriage’ doubles gene risk for babies
PARIS (AFP) ― First cousins who marry run twice the risk of having a child with genetic abnormalities, according to the findings of a study in the English city of Bradford, published Friday in The Lancet.The city, which has a high proportion of South Asian immigrants and their descendants among its population, served as a microcosm for examining the risk of blood relative couplings.About 37 percent of marriages among people of Pakistani origin in the study involved first cousins, compared to les
July 4, 2013
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U.S. researchers make ‘bionic ear’ with 3-D printer
PRINCETON, New Jersey (AP) ― With a 3-D printer, a petri dish and some cells from a cow, U.S. researchers are growing synthetic ears that can receive ― and transmit ― sound.The Princeton University scientists send bovine cells mixed in a liquid gel through the printer, followed by tiny particles of silver. The printer is programmed to shape the material into a “bionic ear” and forms the silver particles into a coiled antenna. Like any antenna, this one can pick up radio signals that the ear will
July 4, 2013
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Past decade hottest on record, warming pace fastest: U.N.
GENEVA (AFP) ― The 21st century’s first decade was the hottest on record, with temperatures rising at an unprecedented pace and weather extremes claiming over 370,000 lives, the United Nations said Wednesday.In a new report on 2001-2010, the World Meteorological Organization said land and sea temperatures averaged 14.47 degrees Celsius.This compares with the long-term average of 14 C, as measured from weather records dating back to 1881.“This is the warmest decade of this whole period,” said WMO
July 4, 2013
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Honda’s robot museum guide not yet a people person
TOKYO (AP) ― Honda Motor Co.’s walking, talking interactive robot is running into glitches in its new job as a museum guide in Tokyo. The bubble-headed Asimo machine had problems telling the difference between people raising their hands to ask questions and those aiming their smartphones to take photos at the Miraikan science museum. It froze mid-action and repeated a programmed remark, “Who wants to ask Asimo a question?’’The robot guide, shown to reporters on Wednesday, is connected by wireles
July 4, 2013
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Higgs boson evidence mounts 1 year after particle’s discovery
PARIS (AFP) ― A year since the discovery of a subatomic particle set the science world aflutter, evidence is mounting it may be the elusive Higgs boson even as researchers warn the suspense is far from over.“We have established without a doubt that we have a new particle, and that it is a boson. What remains to be done is confirm that it is a Higgs,” said physicist Pauline Gagnon, a member of the team that made the discovery at the European Organization for Nuclear Research.The elusive boson dub
July 4, 2013
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Fried fish dish crowned most unhealthy meal in America
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― A batter-laden fried fish dish packs two weeks worth of harmful trans fat in a single serving and was named worst restaurant meal in America Tuesday by a U.S. consumer advocacy group.The Big Catch meal, sold at the fast food chain Long John Silver’s, contains 33 grams of trans fat and 3,700 milligrams of sodium, said the Center for Science in the Public Interest.People should limit themselves to 2 grams of trans fat daily, according to the American Heart Association, and most
July 4, 2013
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Hearing impairment
People working in a noisy environment can develop hearing impairment as a work-related problem. The noise level from woodturning can easily exceed 90 decibels, which is the level that can cause hearing impairment. Therefore, if you work in such environments it is important that you wear earplugs. An increasing number of young people are developing hearing impairment with the use of MP3 players and other devices. The volume on many sets of headphones can exceed 90 decibels, so it is important not
July 4, 2013
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Japanese scientists create ‘human liver’ from stem cells
Scientists in Japan said Wednesday they had grown human liver tissue from stem cells in a first that holds promise for alleviating the critical shortage of donor organs.Creating lab-grown tissue to replenish organs damaged by accident or disease is a Holy Grail for the pioneering field of research into the premature cells known as stem cells.Now Takanori Takebe of the Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine and a team report in the journal Nature that they grew tissue “resembling th
July 4, 2013
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Cyber attacks hit 67 targets: ministry
A total of 67 targets including public offices and companies came under cyber attacks on June 25 and the following days, the Korean government said Thursday. The types of attacks include distributed denial of service (DDoS) and malicious codes to destruct hard disk drives. Among them, 14 organizations lost some of their data stored on hard disks due to the malicious code. At the press briefing on Thursday, the government disclosed the extent of damage by the latest series of cyber attacks. “A t
July 4, 2013
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Naver’s Newsstand service suffers setback
NHN, which runs South Korea’s biggest portal Naver.com, kicked off its news aggregation service called “Newsstand” in April, only to see plunging traffic and complaints from local news media, according to a recent forum. At a forum of online journalism experts who reviewed the portal’s news service, Sangji University professor Kim Kyung-hwan criticized the usability of the system. “The news service is very inconvenient for those who do not have a specific preference of the press.” He said it is
July 4, 2013
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Faster network draws ‘phablet war’
As the world’s top two smartphone makers, Samsung Electronics and Apple Inc., continue to vie for a larger share of the global mobile device market, the next battle is expected to focus on “phablets,” according to industry officials.With the commercialization of the LTE-Advanced network ― which can provide up to double the connection speed of the existing Long Term Evolution technology ― the two electronics giants are expected to release their latest handheld devices built for the faster network
July 3, 2013
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Is TSMC’s tech good enough for Apple?
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has now been on the block long enough for Apple Inc. to turn to the world’s largest chip foundry firm to diversify its supply lines for its most critical device component, the AP processor chip. But the real question now is whether TSMC ― which is still struggling to improve its yield and offer satisfactory chip characteristics ― will be able to deliver what Apple wants, industry watchers said.Yield, which measures the percentage of chips in a finished wafe
July 3, 2013
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Samsung, SK Hynix signs cross-licensing deal
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the world’s top two memory chip makers, on Wednesday said they have signed a cross-licensing deal, significantly reducing the possibility of intellectual property feuds between the two.The contract, which reportedly had been in progress for a couple of years, will allow them to share technology on semiconductors for an unspecified amount of time so they can spend more time and effort on technological advancement. The pair also will be able to form a united front
July 3, 2013
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‘Anonymous’ cyber attacks resume
Hackers claiming to be from hacktivist group “Anonymous” once again wracked the nation by launching fresh cyber attacks against 10 government agencies, local dailies and private firms on Monday, less than a week after similar attacks on the websites of Cheong Wa Dae, the presidential residence, government offices and political parties.The websites of local newspapers Yeongnam Ilbo and Gyeongnam Ilbo; Cyber Dokdo, a government-run promotion website for the easternmost islets of Dokdo; and the con
July 1, 2013
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Korean TV makers green-certified in Europe
South Korea’s electronics giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics both announced on Monday that their TV products sold in Europe have recently received green technology certifications. Samsung’s Smart TV F8000 series was certified by Nemko, a Norwegian safety standard and regulation authority, while LG’s 55-inch curved OLED TV received certification from the U.K.-based Intertek for its eco-friendly technology and use of materials, the company officials said. Samsung and LG are now able to
July 1, 2013
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Korea, China to cooperate on 5G
The Science Ministry said Friday that IT sector policymakers from South Korea and China have signed a pact to foster closer cooperation on high-end mobile technologies. In China on Thursday, Vice Science Minister Yoon Jong-rok and a group of industry leaders from SK Telecom, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics signed a memorandum of understanding with the Asian superpower’s 5G promotion group to better coordinate in developing 5G network technologies.The Chinese representatives included membe
June 28, 2013
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NASA launches sun-watching satellite from U.S.
NASA launched a satellite late Thursday on a mission to explore a little-studied region of the sun and to better forecast space weather that can disrupt communications systems on Earth.Unlike a traditional liftoff, the Iris satellite rode into Earth orbit on a Pegasus rocket dropped from an airplane that took off around sunset from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on California's central coast. About 100 miles (160 kilometers) off the coast and at an altitude of 39,000 feet, the airplane released t
June 28, 2013
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[Graphic News] 1 in 4 Seoul citizens obese
Nearly 25 percent of adult citizens in Seoul were found to be obese in 2012, with the proportion on the rise for the fourth consecutive year, according to a survey of 23,165 citizens aged 19 or older. Korea considers people obese when their body mass index measurement exceeds 25 and with extreme obese when their BMI exceeds 30.
June 27, 2013
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Rising Sun flag in game angers Koreans
A Belarusian online game company has stirred up a heated controversy in South Korea due to its upcoming title incorporating the Rising Sun flag of Imperial Japan.Enraged by the game’s adoption of the flag, a group of Korean gamers plan to launch a campaign to collect signatures from some 40,000 users to protest against the game developer.Belarus-based Wargaming.net is developing the game titled “World of Warships,” one of the massively multiplayer online game series including “World of Tanks” an
June 27, 2013
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