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Now is no time to add pressure on businesses: top executives
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CJ CheilJedang to spur overseas growth with new Hungary, US plants
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Seoul to host winter festival from Dec. 13
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Nationwide rail disruptions feared as union plans strike from Dec. 5
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Blackpink's solo journeys: Complementary paths, not competition
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N. Korea, Russia court softer image: From animal diplomacy to tourism
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Smugglers caught disguising 230 tons of Chinese black beans as diesel exhaust fluid
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[Today’s K-pop] Blackpink’s Jennie, Lisa invited to Coachella as solo acts
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Actor Song Joong-ki welcomes second child in Rome
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Korean Air offers special flights for mileage users
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How to tackle air-conditioningitis
Yoo Jun-hyun With the advancement of civilization, people are now able to control their environment. The term “air-conditioningitis” can often be heard during the summer. Air-conditioningitis occurs when the body cannot adjust properly to the sharp differences in temperature between the cool air-conditioned indoors and the warm outdoors. Air-conditioning in an office building, a bank, a hotel or
July 14, 2011
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Salt diet dangers may be influenced by potassium
ATLANTA (AP) ― The debate about the dangers of eating too much salt has gained a new wrinkle: A federal study suggests that the people most at risk are those who also get too little potassium.Potassium-rich foods, including fruits and vegetables, have long been recommended as a dietary defense against heart disease and other chronic illnesses. The new research is one of the first and largest U.S.
July 14, 2011
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Australia puts health warnings on booze bottles
SYDNEY (AP) ― Australia’s liquor industry launched a voluntary program to label its products with health warnings Tuesday, possibly to pre-empt future criticism that it is contributing to excessive drinking that is part of the national culture.About 80 percent of alcohol sold in the country - beer, wine and spirits - will carry the warnings, primarily aimed at teenagers and pregnant women, said Tr
July 14, 2011
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More AIDS patients may get cheaper drugs
LONDON (AP) ― Gilead Sciences Inc., one of the world’s biggest producers of AIDS drugs, will allow some of them to be made by generic manufacturers - potentially increasing their availability in poor countries, particularly in Africa, officials said Tuesday.In the first deal of its kind, the Foster City, California-based pharmaceutical company has agreed to allow four of its AIDS drugs to be made
July 14, 2011
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Oriental medicine out to prove itself
Jaseng’s Royer says Oriental medicine focuses on balance of inner energyMany Koreans visit Oriental medical doctors for stamina or chi improvement. Yet, the field is less visited for treatment of ordinary diseases, industry insiders admit.But Oriental medicine is slowly earning a reputation for seeing the disease and the body condition from a larger perspective. It is the hot spot for foreigners s
July 14, 2011
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Lawyer pushes class action suit against Apple
A lawyer is pushing for a class action suit against Apple after he won a court battle last month over the iPhone’s location tracking.Apple Korea recently paid about 1 million won in compensation to attorney Kim Hyung-suk following a lower court’s ruling that the smartphone’s software violated his privacy.Kim, 31, and his company MiRaeLaw on Thursday began to collect applications for a collective l
July 14, 2011
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Glasses tell what others are thinking
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab have come up with "social x-ray specs" that can interpret others’ facial expressions, according to reports. The creator of the glasses, Rosalind Picard said that they can identify human facial expressions such as thinking, agreeing, concentrating, interest and disagreement. This is made possible with the help of a built-in camera
July 14, 2011
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VMware moves closer to customers with new solutions
At the top of VMware’s priorities for Korea, a nation becoming actively engaged in cloud computing, are plans for buttressing the firm’s localization initiative and moving closer to the business of its customers.“We need to get closer to the business of our customers and need to move up much closer, more to the consulting at the business level and become more vertically aligned so that our solutio
July 13, 2011
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Scientists grow first stem cell tooth
July 13, 2011
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Number of smartphone users tops 15 mln in S. Korea
SEOUL, July 13 (Yonhap) -- The number of smartphone subscribers in South Korea hit 15 million this week, according to data from the country's three mobile operators released Wednesday. South Korean smartphone subscribers numbered 15.35 million as of Monday, including 7.8 million users at the industry leader SK Telecom Co., 5.45 million at KT Corp. and 2.1 million at LG Uplus Corp., the mobile carr
July 13, 2011
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Half of Americans watch videos during work
About half of American adults watch online videos unrelated to work while on the job, a U.S. survey showed. Men watch twice as often as women.The study showed that 25 percent watch news clips and 15 percent view viral videos. Other popular choices were sports (11 percent) and television shows (9 percent). Some are bold enough to view full-length feature films (4 percent) and even pornography (3 p
July 13, 2011
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Secondhand smoking linked to behavioral disorders in children
A new research revealed that children from households with smokers are more likely to develop behavioral disorders and learning problems than those from smoke-free homes.The findings were released in the journal “Pediatrics.”It was traditionally thought that secondhand smoke causes health problems for children including respiratory difficulties. A woman lights a cigarette for a photograph in New Y
July 13, 2011
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Korea clears way for ‘Angry Birds’ to take on ‘StarCraft’
Apple Inc. customers in South Korea who couldn’t download Rovio Mobile Ltd.’s best-selling “Angry Birds” on their iPhones will soon be able to find out why flinging vindictive fowl at green hogs can be addictive. Korea scrapped rules yesterday requiring developers to have mobile games rated by the government, said Yi Ki-jeong, a manager at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Seoul. The
July 12, 2011
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Samsung retains LCD TV, 3-D TV leads in EU
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of TVs, maintained its lead in Europe’s major TV markets during the first five months of this year, a market researcher said Tuesday.According to GfK Group, the Korean TV maker accounted for 31.9 percent of Europe’s liquid crystal display TV market in May.Its market share stood at 30.8 percent in the January-May period. Samsung’s hometown rival LG
July 12, 2011
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Opposites attract? No!
The long-held theory of romance that opposites attract may be wrong a new study suggests.Researchers at University of California, Berkeley found similarity rules when people find themselves drawn to potential romantic partners, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reported. In what they refer to as “matching hypothesis,” men and women fall for the potential partners of their own or similar league and desirabilit
July 12, 2011
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Samsung smartphones set for space experiments
Astronomers are to conduct various space experiments with Samsung Electronics’ Nexus S Android smartphones carried by the space shuttle Atlantis. Atlantis docked the International Space Station on Sunday after it was launched Friday as the final flight of the U.S. shuttle program. (Yonhap News)Samsung smart phones are to perform various tasks ranging from measuring and inspecting ISS along with a
July 12, 2011
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‘GPS is allowed to find cheating husband’: U.S. court
A man shows a GPS devise as his classmate. (MCT) ‘GPS is allowed to find cheating husband’: U.S. court A New Jersey court has approved of a woman’s use of GPS to track down her suspicious husband. The woman hired a private investigator to follow her husband to find out whether he was having an affair. But when her husband, Kenneth Villanova, kept managing to avoid the investigator, he told her to
July 11, 2011
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Gene tied to relapse of breast cancer
A group of doctors here have found a gene that could detect the possible recurrence of breast cancer. If cancer treatment is effective, recurrence remains a major threat. The finding could contribute to improved treatment for breast cancer, Prof. Kim Lee-su of Hallym University said.When there are cancer cells, and when teh cancer spreads to the lymph nodes, normal cells’ production of αB-Crystall
July 7, 2011
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CAU hospital seeks test candidates
Chung Ang University Hospital is looking for candidates for a clinical test of its asthma treatment. Those applying should have been diagnosed with asthma before they reached 40 years of age. They should be either non-smokers or those who have quit mild smoking (less than 10 packets of cigarettes a year) for more than a year. The candidates must be taking steroids.Those selected will be able to ge
July 7, 2011
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Vocal cord nodules hit mostly women
The majority of people suffering from vocal cord nodules are female, especially teachers, the National Health Insurance Corporation said Monday. According to its report, 91,430 women were treated for vocal cord nodules in 2010, far outnumbering the 49,317 men who received treatment.The number of patients receiving treatment each year has steadily increased: from 123,000 in 2006 to 141,000 in 2010.
July 7, 2011
