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Actor Jung Woo-sung admits to being father of model Moon Ga-bi’s child
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Wealthy parents ditch Korean passports to get kids into international school
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Man convicted after binge eating to avoid military service
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First snow to fall in Seoul on Wednesday
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Final push to forge UN treaty on plastic pollution set to begin in Busan
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Korea to hold own memorial for forced labor victims, boycotting Japan’s
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S. Korea not to attend Sado mine memorial: foreign ministry
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Nvidia CEO signals Samsung’s imminent shipment of AI chips
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Toxins at 622 times legal limit found in kids' clothes from Chinese platforms
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Job creation lowest on record among under-30s
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Canadian dentist to use John Lennon's tooth to clone baby from dead Beatle's DNA
All you need is love -- and maybe an old tooth.During an episode of Dead Famous DNA on Channel 4 in England, Canadian dentist Dr. Michael Zuk revealed that he plans on using DNA from one of John Lennon’s teeth to make a clone baby that he can raise as his own. “If there is enough DNA to sequence it, it could be basically genetic real estate,” Zuk said. “My goal is to own John Lennon’s DNA.” Zuk purchased Lennon’s molar for $33,000 when it was put up for auction about three years ago. The doctor
April 13, 2014
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Galaxy S5 released worldwide
Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S5 has hit the global market along with its new wearable devices ― Samsung Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit.The Korea tech giant said Friday that its products with new fitness and health features have hit the shelves in 125 countries in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. This marked the biggest worldwide release of a Samsung smartphone. Its predecessor, the Galaxy S4, was introduced in 60 countries. “The refined design and technological inn
April 11, 2014
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Seoul shares fall 0.56%, won extends rise
South Korean shares closed lower Friday as an overnight drop in U.S. stocks prodded investors here to turn away from risky assets, with the Korean won extending its gain versus the U.S. dollar, analysts said. The local currency closed at a near six-year high.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index dropped 11.17 points, or 0.56 percent, to 1,997.44. Trading volume was light at 205 million shares worth 3.42 trillion won ($3.3 billion), with losers outpacing gainers 447 to 342.The index ope
April 11, 2014
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Chinese premier says FTA talks with Korea at ‘critical’ stage
BEIJING (Yonhap) ― Negotiations between South Korea and China aimed at forging a bilateral free trade pact have entered a “critical” stage, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, calling for the two nations to speed up the process of talks to reach a “high-level” agreement. Li made the remarks during a meeting with South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won on Thursday evening on the sidelines of a regional economic forum on China’s southern island of Hainan, according to a statement released by China
April 11, 2014
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Samsung, LG required to adopt kill switch
The government said Thursday that all new smartphones produced by local handset makers should adopt a “kill switch” security function to enable users to remotely shut off their devices, rendering them useless, to prevent theft. “This will help users (to safeguard their data) if (the phone is) lost or stolen,” said a government official at the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. Samsung Electronics will feature the kill switch on its new flagship model Galaxy S5, which will hit the glob
April 10, 2014
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Korea’s ICT exports jump 8.9% on-year in March
Backed by the country’s initiative to bolster the information and communication technology sector, related exports jumped 8.9 percent in March compared to a year earlier, according to government figures on Thursday.Outbound shipments of ICT products came to $14.98 billion in March, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.Imports surged 10.3 percent on-year to $7.43 billion, but the sector’s trade surplus widened to $7.55 billion from $7.02 billion in March 2013.“The country’s exp
April 10, 2014
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KT faces challenge to increase earnings despite restructuring: analysts
South Korea’s No. 2 mobile carrier KT Corp. is still faced with the challenge of improving its earnings despite latest efforts to reduce labor costs, analysts said Thursday, due to the dull performance of its fixed-line sector and the ever-intensifying battle with the rivals.“While cutting expenditures may have a positive effect for the short term, it will not be a fundamental solution to the slowed growth,” said Kim Jang-won, an analyst at IBK Investment & Securities.Hwang Chang-kyu, who took t
April 10, 2014
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Scientists try 3-D printer to build heart
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) ― It may sound far-fetched, but scientists are attempting to build a human heart with a 3-D printer.Ultimately, the goal is to create a new heart for a patient with their own cells that could be transplanted. It is an ambitious project to first, make a heart and then get it to work in a patient, and it could be years ― perhaps decades ― before a 3-D printed heart would ever be put in a person.The technology, though, is not all that futuristic: Researchers have already u
April 10, 2014
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NASA says weird Mars lights are not a sign of life
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― A NASA robot has snapped pictures showing glints of light on the Martian horizon, which some UFO enthusiasts have seized on as a sign of alien life on the Red Planet. Not so, said the space agency.More likely, the images of bright spots taken on April 2-3 are a product of the sun’s glare or cosmic rays, NASA said in a statement.In fact, similar glints of light are seen all the time in images taken by the Curiosity rover, a multibillion dollar unmanned vehicle equipped with cam
April 10, 2014
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Google, Hancom join office software race
After reigning for nearly two decades in the global personal computer office suite market, Microsoft is facing challenges from new contenders seeking to carve out bigger slices of the pie in the market for mobile productivity applications. So far, it looks like the challengers are mostly relying on so-called “freemium” strategies to attract customers. A significant example is Google, which began handing out its Quickoffice mobile application, free of charge, in September 2013. The set of mobile
April 9, 2014
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Tech giants target kids’ tablet market
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are expanding their tablet PC lineup for children as the global tech giants eye them as potential customers amid a growing market for e-books and digital education.LG is ready to roll out a follow-up to the Kids Pad introduced in 2012 called the Kids Pad 2, a nontoxic and durable tablet featuring basic tool kits to learn Korean, English and math.The upgraded tablet, which has been certified by the National Radio Research Agency, is expected to hit the marke
April 9, 2014
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Japan stem-cell researcher says results valid
TOKYO (AFP) ― A young female scientist accused of fabricating data made a tearful apology live on Japanese television Wednesday for “mistakes” in her research, but insisted her ground-breaking conclusions on stem cells were accurate.Haruko Obokata, 30, blamed her youth and inexperience for errors in her methodology, but said she had managed to create the building-block cells capable of growing into the specialized cells of the brain, liver, heart or kidneys.“I apologize with my whole heart to my
April 9, 2014
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Americas get front-row seat for lunar eclipse
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― North and South America, get ready for the first eclipse of the year ― in color.Next Tuesday morning, the moon will be eclipsed by Earth’s shadow. This total lunar eclipse will be visible across the Western Hemisphere. The total phase will last 78 minutes, beginning at 3:06 a.m. EDT and ending at 4:24 a.m. EDT.The moon will be rising in the western Pacific, and so only the last half of the eclipse will be visible there. In much of Europe and Africa, the moon will b
April 9, 2014
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KT plans massive voluntary retirement
KT said Tuesday that some 70 percent of its workforce will be asked to voluntarily leave their jobs at Korea’s second-biggest mobile carrier, as it seeks to boost efficiency and improve lackluster earnings.This is also in line with efforts by KT’s new CEO Hwang Chang-gyu, a former CEO of Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor unit, to “rejuvenate” the company with younger staff and rebuild it completely.The company said that its managers and staff agreed to the restructuring plan, which includes opt
April 8, 2014
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Naver shares twice as expensive as Google, relative to profits
Naver Corp., whose Line messaging service propelled shares to levels twice as expensive as Google Inc., is getting sold by overseas investors faster than any other South Korean stock amid concern the rally went too far.Foreigners sold a net $638 million of the shares during the past month, the most among KOSPI index members, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Naver, which also operates the nation’s most popular search engine, sank 13 percent from a record high on March 10, after a 99 perce
April 8, 2014
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In blind test, soloists like new violins over old
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Ten world-class soloists put costly Stradivarius violins and new, cheaper ones to a blind scientific test. The results may seem off-key to musicians and collectors, but the new instruments won handily.When the lights were dimmed and the musicians donned dark glasses, the soloists’ top choice out of a dozen old and new violins tested was by far a new one. So was the second choice, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Of the
April 8, 2014
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Climate chair calls for ‘enlightenment’
BERLIN (AP) ― The head of the United Nations scientific panel on climate change urged diplomats and scientists to show “enlightenment” Monday, as they began a weeklong meeting aimed at spelling out in plain terms what options the world has if it wants to prevent catastrophic global warming.Delegates at the closed-doors meeting in Berlin need to tackle a number of sensitive issues, including how best to cut carbon emissions and how to share the cost of shifting away from the fossil fuels that are
April 8, 2014
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KT to carry out voluntary retirement
KT Corp., South Korea's No. 2 mobile carrier, said Tuesday it will accept voluntary retirement from senior employees in an apparent bid to tighten its belt as it is dragged down by lackluster performances.The company said it reached an agreement with its labor union to allow employees who have worked 15 years or more at KT to retire, which accounts for 23,000 of the current 32,000 workers. Applications will be accepted from Thursday to April 24. This is the first such step since 2009 when the mo
April 8, 2014
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Samsung puts Q1 operating profit at W8.4t
Samsung Electronics Co., the world's biggest technology firm by revenue, estimated Tuesday its 2014 first-quarter operating profit at 8.4 trillion won ($7.9 billion).The preliminary estimate represents a 4.3 percent fall from the operating profit of 8.78 trillion won a year earlier, the company said in a regulatory filing.The figure, however, marks a 1.08 percent increase from the operating profit of 8.31 trillion won posted over the September-December period of 2013.First-quarter sales were est
April 8, 2014
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Samsung to release USIM-embedded Gear Solo watch
A new standalone variant of the Samsung Gear 2, equipped with a universal subscriber identity module, or USIM, will likely be christened the Samsung Gear Solo, a source told The Korea Herald.As reported earlier by The Korea Herald, Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom are jointly preparing to release the new smart watch. According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the state patent office, the electronics giant has filed a patent with the Gear Solo name. As the name indicates, the wearabl
April 7, 2014
