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Dongduk Women’s University halts coeducation talks
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Defense ministry denies special treatment for BTS’ V amid phone use allegations
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Russia sent 'anti-air' missiles to Pyongyang, Yoon's aide says
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OpenAI in talks with Samsung to power AI features, report says
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Two jailed for forcing disabled teens into prostitution
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Trump picks ex-N. Korea policy official as his principal deputy national security adviser
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South Korean military plans to launch new division for future warfare
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Kia EV9 GT marks world debut at LA Motor Show
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S. Korea not to attend Sado mine memorial: foreign ministry
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Gold bars and cash bundles; authorities confiscate millions from tax dodgers
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Parents key to teen's alcohol, drug use
Some parents assume whatever they say about drugs and alcohol may be drowned out by peer pressure, but U.S. researchers say parents are key.Michael Cleveland of the Prevention Research Center at Pennsylvania State University said influences on what teens do often come from their friends, but parents have big roles.Cleveland and colleagues interviewed high school freshmen and sophomores, asking the
July 24, 2012
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Scientists 'engineer' a jellyfish
The artificial jellyfish. (Image credit: Harvard/Caltech)(UPI)U.S. researchers say they've used inanimate silicone and living cardiac muscle cells to reverse engineer a freely swimming artificial "jellyfish."Researchers at Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology say the successful effort was a proof of concept for reverse engineering a variety of muscular organs and simple li
July 24, 2012
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KT starts test service for world’s first VoLTE
KT, Korea’s second-largest mobile carrier, said Monday that it has launched a pilot service of Voice over Long Term Evolution for the first time in the world.Some 300 workers and college students will be given the chance to test KT’s high-definition VoLTE in Korea.The concept of HD VoLTE is similar to Voice over Internet Protocol telephone service, which uses Internet broadband lines to transmit voice data, whereas VoLTE transmit data via LTE networks, an industry source said.Also, VoLTE allows
July 23, 2012
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Female flirtation is a plus in negotiation
Using flirtation during a negotiation appears to create better economic outcomes for female negotiators, a U.S. researcher found.However, study leader Laura Kray of the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Management, said female negotiators only had an advantage if the flirtatiousness was perceived as above and beyond friendliness.The researchers examined “feminine charm” in negotia
July 23, 2012
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Kissenger: virtual lips for long-distance lovers
Finding it hard to keep up the passion in a long-distance relationship? Help might be on the way. A robotics professor in Singapore has invented a gadget equipped with motion-sensitive electronic "lips" that allow amorous but absent couples toexchange long-distance smooches via the Internet.Shaped like a small head with oversize silicone lips, the "Kissenger" -- short for Kiss Messenger -- was unv
July 23, 2012
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Japan launches rocket to ISS
A handout photograph shows a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. H-2A rocket which carries Arirang-3 taking off from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan on Friday, May 18, 2012. (Bloomberg photos and graphics)An unmanned rocket carrying more than 4 tons of supplies to the International Space Station was successfully launched
July 23, 2012
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Moms saddest when kids back in school
This photo is not directly related to this article.(Bloomberg photos and graphics)The return of school days is more emotionally tolling for mom than kids; she is the saddest when classes start, a U.S. survey indicates.Plum District, a Web community of mothers, conducted an online survey of more than 2,400 of its members last June, and found 40 percent of moms said they were the saddest family memb
July 23, 2012
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Many see e-cigarettes as less harmful
(McClatchy)Current U.S. smokers are more likely to use e-cigarettes -- formally known as Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems -- than non-smokers, researchers say. Researchers at the Schroeder Institute at the American Legacy Foundation, a non-profit Washington group that seeks to address the health effects of tobacco use, analyzed data from more than 6,000 adults who participated in two national
July 23, 2012
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Women can fight breast cleavage wrinkles
Facial wrinkles get the lion's share of attention, but a U.S. plastic surgeon says wrinkles in women's breast cleavage can also be remedied.Dr. Rod Rohrich, chairman of plastic surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, said wrinkle-fighting strategies can work on other areas of the body besides the face.One such area is breast cleavage -- where wrinkling caused by e
July 23, 2012
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Gray hair may indicate good health
Graying hair is typically regarded as an indicator of senility, but new study suggested it may actually be a sign of health, according to a report on Livescience.com.Researchers from Museo Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Spain recently found that some wild boars with reddish furs tend to be more vulnerable to cell damage. Red fur points to abundant pheomelanin, a pigment that produces col
July 22, 2012
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Sugary drinks can change muscles in month
Sugary drinks lead to alterations in muscles similar to those in people with obesity problems and type 2 diabetes, researchers in Britain said. Dr. Hans-Peter Kubis of Bangor University in England said the research showed regularly drinking soft drinks changed the way muscles use food as fuel, making them prefer to burn sugars over fats. "This study proved our concerns over sugary drinks have bee
July 22, 2012
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Korea's high-speed wireless Internet penetration tops 100 percent
South Korea's high-speed wireless Internet penetration rate has topped the 100 percent mark for the first time among member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a report showed Sunday.The penetration rate of high-speed wireless Internet service in South Korea amounted to 100.6 percent as of the end of last year, the highest among the 34 members of the Paris-
July 22, 2012
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LG Electronics to release limited edition ‘king-size’ smart TV
LG Electronics plans to release a limited edition of its new ultra-definition, 3-D light-emitting diode smart television from July 20 to Aug. 20.Korea’s second largest consumer electronics company said that it will introduce the 84-inch LED TV model named 84LM9600, which is slightly bigger than the standard 2-meter-long king mattress.Targeting the premium TV market, LG’s ultra-definition LED TV offers four times as high resolution as full high-definition 1,920 by 1,080-size TVs, the company said
July 20, 2012
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Samsung asks to restrict Apple references to Jobs at patent trial
Samsung Electronics asked a federal judge to restrict references by Apple Inc.’s lawyers to the company’s late founder Steve Jobs at a jury trial scheduled for July 30 over mobile-device patents. Harold McElhinny, a lawyer for Apple, told U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, Wednesday that he plans to show jurors two slides of Jobs during opening statements in the case. The slides include one when Jobs announced the release of the iPhone in 2007 ― an “announcement that went arou
July 20, 2012
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LG Display, SNU join hands for next-generation displays
LG Display, Korea’s second-biggest display panel maker, has formed a partnership with Seoul National University for the research and development of next-generation display technology.The company said that the two sides will establish the LGD-SNU Cooperation Center within the university’s Research Institute of Advanced Materials to push forward in making Korea the “Mecca” of the world’s leading R&D in display.The corporate-academic center will house top engineers, researchers and professors from
July 20, 2012
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Gray hair may indicate good health
Graying hair is typically regarded as an indicator of senility, but new study suggested it may actually be a sign of health, according to a report on Livescience.com.Researchers from Museo Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Spain recently found that some wild boars with reddish furs tend to be more vulnerable to cell damage. Red fur points to abundant pheomelanin, a pigment that produces color in fur. Scientists found that more pheomelanin boars have, more likely they are to lack glutathio
July 20, 2012
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Bones give clues to Neanderthal lifestyle
This photo is not directly related to this article.(123rf)Spear hunting may not have given Neanderthals their powerful right arms; it may have come from scraping animal skins for clothes and shelters, researchers say.Skeletons show Neanderthals, our closest known extinct relatives, had unusually strong right arms, as their right humerus -- the long arm bone associated with the biceps and triceps -
July 20, 2012
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Moms may not see if kids are overweight
Many mothers can‘t tell whether their toddlers are big kids or too-big kids, U.S. researchers discovered.Dr. Erin Hager of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and colleagues had low-income moms of overweight toddlers choose silhouettes that the moms thought represented the size of their child.“Ninety-four percent of the mothers of overweight toddlers chose a silhouette that was two or mo
July 20, 2012
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PC DRAM price fall to curb SK Hynix earnings: report
HONG KONG (Yonhap News) ― SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, will see its earnings restrained by weakening prices of dynamic random-access memory used in manufacturing PCs, a report said Thursday.Macquarie said in the report that it is downgrading its rating on SK hynix by one notch to “neutral” from “buy,” saying the company’s operating profit will be affected by the delayed recovery of the PC DRAM market. It also slashed its target price for the South Korean firm to 21
July 19, 2012
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KT to sell copper cables to focus on faster network operations
KT plans to sell its old copper cables that used to be the main telecommunication lines for telephones and the Internet in the 1990s.With the emergence of smarter devices and demand for faster data, copper cables have gradually been replaced by fiber-optic cables, which are lighter and transmit data faster with greater bandwidth.KT said Thursday that it will sell over 26,000 tons of copper cables via a public auction to waste and recycling companies by the end of August.With the proceeds from th
July 19, 2012
