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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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[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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Nvidia CEO signals Samsung’s imminent shipment of AI chips
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SK Telecom’s daily data traffic tops 1 petabyte
SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, said Monday that its daily data transfer topped 1 petabyte in line with the growing use of smartphones and tablet computers in the country. According to SK Telecom, data transfer on its mobile network topped the milestone on April 26, becoming the country’s first mobile operator to set such a record. A petabyte is a measure of data, and one petabyte is a million gigabytes. The figure includes data traffic on the third-generation network, WiFi
May 6, 2013
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College students face risk of heart diseases due to binge drinking
Students on college campuses do not fear pulling all-nighters at parties and drinking a large amount of alcohol, assuming that their youth may protect them from the destructive effects of their lifestyle. However, according to a study by researchers from the University of Illinois, people in their 20s are not immune to heart disease caused by binge drinking.“Binge drinking is neurotoxic and our data supports that there may be serious cardiovascular consequences in young adults,” said professor S
May 6, 2013
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Apple slammed for child, environmental exploitation
The rivalry between Samsung Electronics and Apple Inc. was brought to the fore again after an international organization slammed both tech giants for using suppliers that employ child labor and may harm the environment. According to Friends of the Earth, an international environmental group, Apple has remained silent on the issue of using tin mined from Indonesia, whereas Samsung has responded by saying it will address the issue as soon as it can.“Apple has refused to answer its own customers’ q
May 5, 2013
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FTC in final stage of probe into Google
SEJONG (Yonhap News) ― South Korea’s corporate watchdog is expected to soon announce the results of its deliberation into an antitrust case against Google Inc. for its alleged involvement in activities that hurt fair market competition, industry sources said Friday.Some sources also speculate that the Fair Trade Commission might be considering dropping the charges against the U.S. Internet search engine giant as it is in the final stage of its deliberation into the case.In 2011, NHN Corp. and Da
May 3, 2013
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Companies slow to tackle U.S. mobile phone thefts
U.S. authorities said mobile carriers and phone manufacturers should do more to resolve the rapidly growing smartphone thefts. In 2012, Washington D.C. alone witnessed a record 1,829 smartphone robberies and nearly half of all thefts in San Francisco involved mobile devices, according to the U.S. police. The underlying issue is that wireless carriers and smartphone producers are slow to tackle the problem.A national database tracking stolen devices and iPhone’s location-tracking function for mis
May 3, 2013
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[Photo News] Jessica Alba talks at Seoul Digital Forum
Jessica Alba, a Hollywood actress and CEO of an eco-friendly product label Honest Company, is having a talk with the topic “Widening Access to Healthy Living with ‘Honest’ Products and a Dream” at the Seoul Digital Forum.A mother of two girls, Alba created the company to distribute ethical, clean baby products. She was listed as one of Fortune’s 10 Most Powerful Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneur of the Year at the U.K. Glamour Women of the Year 2012 Awards.The Seoul Digital Forum is held from May
May 3, 2013
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Intel names Krzanich as chipmaker's next CEO
Intel's chief operating officer, Brian Krzanich, will become its next CEO in two weeks, tasked with steering the world's largest chipmaker through an industry shake-up that is seeing tablets and smartphones overshadow Intel's base in personal computers.Intel, one of the pillars of Silicon Valley, announced Thursday that Krzanich, who is 52, will replace Paul Otellini on May 16. Otellini, 62, announced his decision to resign six months ago and will end a nearly 40-year career with Intel, includin
May 3, 2013
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Korea eyes expansion of commercial space industry
The government will soon set up measures to help commercialize its space technology while also working to further develop its commercial space sector that will include the early development of a shuttle to the moon, the science ministry said Thursday.The move comes as there are only 61 private companies or research institutes developing space technologies in the country while 44.2 percent of them have annual sales of less than 1 billion won ($909,000), according to the Ministry of Science, ICT a
May 2, 2013
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Houses of former NIS agents, informant raided over scandal
Prosecutors on Thursday raided the houses of two former agents of the nation’s main intelligence agency and one informant as part of a widening investigation into allegations that the organization attempted to influence public opinion ahead of last year’s presidential election. The scandal centers around allegations that the National Intelligence Service extensively and systemically meddled in the presidential election by using its agents to post a slew of politically sensitive comments against
May 2, 2013
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U.S. appeals emergency contraception ruling
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The U.S. Department of Justice appealed Wednesday a federal judge’s ruling ordering regulators to provide emergency contraception to women and girls of all ages.The appeal came just one day after the Food and Drug Administration allowed a manufacturer to make the Plan B One-Step morning-after pill available to those aged 15 and older without a prescription.The FDA says that decision is not related to the pending court case over emergency contraception.Until now, emergency cont
May 2, 2013
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Endoscopy under conscious sedation
Upper endoscopy is the most fundamental test to diagnose diseases of the esophagus, stomach and the duodenum (for example, gastric cancer, gastric ulcers, duodenal ulcers and esophagitis). Unlike radiological tests using contrast imaging of the upper gastrointestinal tract, endoscopy allows a direct biopsy of any abnormal tissues, producing a more accurate diagnosis as well as helping the treatment planning. Gastric cancer is very common in Korea and upper endoscopy is very important for early d
May 2, 2013
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Acupuncture more effective for pain than drugs: study
New research by Korean doctors of Oriental medicine suggested that a homegrown acupunctural method could reduce acute lower back pain faster and more effectively than conventional drug injections.In a joint study conducted by doctors of Jaseng Hospital of Korean Medicine and researchers of the Korea Institute for Oriental Medicine, pain was reduced significantly more among patients who received a nontraditional acupuncture treatment called motion style acupuncture (MSAT) compared with another gr
May 2, 2013
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Videogames slow, reverse ‘mental decay’: study
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Playing videogames can prevent and even reverse deteriorating brain functions such as memory, reasoning and visual processing, according to a study released Wednesday.The University of Iowa study of hundreds of people age 50 and older found that those who played a videogame were able to improve a range of cognitive skills, and reverse up to seven years of age-related declines.“We know that we can stop this decline and actually restore cognitive processing speed to people,” sai
May 2, 2013
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Facebook rejects anti-Zuckerberg ad
Facebook refused to put up an ad criticizing its founder Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday, U.S. media reported.According to the San Francisco Chronicle, progressive mobile carrier CREDO Mobile requested Facebook to carry an ad critical of Zuckerberg for his advocacy of constructing the controversial Keystone XL pipeline that may harm the neighborhood environment. Facebook turned down the company’s request, saying the ad may confuse Facebook users to regard it as an actual message of the CEO. “Users
May 2, 2013
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Kakao teams with Evernote for chat-memo service
Kakao, the operator of the country’s biggest mobile messenger Kakao Talk, announced Wednesday that it has formed a strategic partnership with Evernote for a service that will allow users to use the U.S.-based tech firm’s memo app while chatting. Under the agreement, Kakao Talk users will be able to not only make memos while using the app, but also to save the contents of their chats and share them with others. The Evernote app allows the users to record text or voice and send them online.The mov
May 2, 2013
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Dongbu Daewoo eyes bigger U.S. presence
Dongbu Daewoo Electronics, one of the industry’s smaller but growing players, on Wednesday said it was strengthening its ties with leading U.S. retailer Wal-Mart by stepping up its supply of microwave ovens. A total of 500,000 units are to be supplied to Wal-Mart, which is more than double the number of ovens Dongbu Daewoo provided last year.Under the deal, the electronics maker in April started to supply 50,000 ovens, which were distributed to nationwide Wal-Mart stores and subsequently sold ou
May 1, 2013
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Responding to the ‘Dark Seoul Cyber Attack’
On March 20, 2013, South Korea suffered a cyber attack that resulted in the denial of service of several major banks, broadcasters, and the defacement of the websites of a telecommunications operator. Although reported as a major cyber attack, multiple security experts reported the malware as having a relatively low level of technical sophistication. What’s concerning is this attack could have been completely prevented by simply keeping antivirus software updated, making sure Windows security pr
May 1, 2013
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LGE forecast to ship over 50m smartphones this year
South Korean consumer electronics giant LG Electronics Inc. is expected to sell more than 50 million smartphones this year on the back of strong demand for its flagship Optimus G line-up and mid and low-end smartphones, brokerage houses said Tuesday.LG Electronics, the world’s No. 3 smartphone maker, sold some 26.3 million smartphones last year.Korea Investment & Securities said in a report that LG Electronics is expected to sell 53.29 million smartphones this year. Hyundai Securities and KB Inv
May 1, 2013
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20 years on, first web page to be reborn
GENEVA (AFP) ― The world’s first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today’s Internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the Web, organizers said on Tuesday.The European Organisation for Nuclear Research said it had begun recreating the website that launched that World Wide Web, as well as the hardware that made the groundbreaking technology possible.The world’s first website was about the technology itself, according to CERN, allowing early browsers t
May 1, 2013
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Korea’s major online news service wobbles after platform change
The online news service by Naver, Korea’s most influential Web portal, is seeing a major decrease in users one month after it introduced the new platform. The situation is hampering small news companies heavily dependent on the giant website.In April, Naver adopted the “Newsstand” platform, which pooled the top pages of 53 major news outlets in Korea and presented them to the users. It replaced its predecessor “Newscast” system that randomly exposed articles from those 53 sources.According to re
May 1, 2013
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