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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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Trump picks ex-N. Korea policy official as his principal deputy national security adviser
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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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S. Korea not to attend Sado mine memorial: foreign ministry
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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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Toxins at 622 times legal limit found in kids' clothes from Chinese platforms
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Nvidia CEO signals Samsung’s imminent shipment of AI chips
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NASA: Cooling pump on station shuts down
WASHINGTON (AP) ― NASA said Wednesday it was looking into a problem with a malfunctioning cooling pump on the International Space Station, but there was no immediate danger to the six crewmen on board.A valve on a pump on one of the station’s two external cooling loops shut down because it was too cool Wednesday afternoon, NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs said. He said that at no time was the crew at risk. But some non-critical equipment of the massive orbital outpost were powered down.“It could be a s
Dec. 12, 2013
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Actor’s science contest asks: What is color?
MINEOLA, New York (AP) ― Alan Alda, the actor-turned-part-time professor, has a new question for scientists to consider: How do you explain color to an 11-year-old?The television and film star best known for his role in the 1970s sitcom “MASH” is posing the question as part of the third annual “Flame Challenge.” Alda helped organize the international contest as part of his work at the Stony Brook University Center for Communicating Science.The university on eastern Long Island named the center i
Dec. 12, 2013
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U.S. issues rules for removing antibiotics from farms
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― In response to concerns about the rise in drug-resistant superbugs worldwide, U.S. regulators Wednesday issued voluntary guidelines to help cut back on antibiotics routinely fed to farm animals.The plan described by the Food and Drug Administration is not mandatory, and applies only to certain pharmaceuticals that are given to healthy livestock in a bid to grow bigger animals and boost food production. “We need to be selective about the drugs we use in animals and when we use
Dec. 12, 2013
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Yahoo apologizes for prolonged outage of revamped e-mail
Yahoo! Inc., the Web portal that revamped its e-mail service in October, apologized for a problem that has knocked out access to the service for some users since Dec. 9.The company had “dozens of people working around the clock to bring it to a resolution,” Jeffrey Bonforte, a senior vice president at Yahoo, said on the company’s website. “The issue has been harder to fix than we originally expected.”Earlier today, Yahoo said it expected access to be restored by 3 p.m. San Francisco time. As of
Dec. 12, 2013
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Samsung Electronics scores in Germany, loses in Korea
Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest smartphone maker, on Thursday defended itself in a German court against U.S.-based Apple but was not as successful on its home turf. The Mannheim district court of Germany on Wednesday (local time) invalidated a lawsuit filed by Apple against Samsung for infringement on a patent involving language-specific keypads.The language-specific technology originally belonged to Mitsubishi before Apple acquired it in 2011. It basically stores a multilingual charac
Dec. 12, 2013
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Car accidents double among smartphone users: data
The number of car accidents related to smartphones has doubled over the past three years with the rise in the use of mobile digital devices, according to a research institute.The Traffic Climate and Environment Research Center, a research unit of Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co., said in a report it released Wednesday that the smartphone-related accident rate increased 1.9-fold from 437 in 2009 to 848 cases in 2012.The abrupt rise in such accidents is attributed to both phone calls and the us
Dec. 11, 2013
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Samsung Electronics to keep three-pronged business structure
Samsung Electronics decided to retain its current three business units and strengthen its camera business, officials said Wednesday.They said the three main business units ― device solutions, home appliance, and IT and mobile ― remain intact, and will be continued to be led by CEOs Kwon Oh-hyun, Yoon Boo-keun and Shin Jong-kyun, respectively.Because of last year’s major restructuring process in which Samsung Electronics split a division in charge of finished goods into mobile and consumer electr
Dec. 11, 2013
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SKT partners with ARM on ‘Internet of Things’
SK Telecom and British semiconductor company ARM forged a partnership on the “Internet of Things” on Wednesday.SK Telecom’s head of information communications technology division Choi Jin-sung met with Adam Gould, ARM’s vice president and a former CEO of Sensinode, for joint technology research, the company said in a statement.The Internet of Things refers to technology that connects devices, people and space with wireless communications through information technologies such as sensors. Both com
Dec. 11, 2013
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SimpleX Internet helps online start-ups tap into global market
SimpleX Internet, the nation’s leading Web hosting provider, has been helping Korean online shopping sites diversify their sales channels and tap into the global market. The company opened its Cafe 24 Global Center in September to provide services for users who want to create online shopping sites in the Chinese, Japanese and English languages. “We found that language was the biggest barrier that start-ups face when selling their products overseas. As product description is related to local cult
Dec. 11, 2013
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Santa being tracked by Microsoft and Google
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) ― The competition between Microsoft and Google is stretching to the North Pole as the Internet search rivals vie to be top Santa tracker this Christmas.Google on Wednesday launched a google.com/santatracker website offering reindeer games, elf antics and updates on beloved gift-giver Kris Kringle as children worldwide count down to Christmas eve.“A team of Google engineers are working hard to track Santa’s sleigh with the most advanced maps and holiday technology available,”
Dec. 11, 2013
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Korea’s R&D spending ranks sixth in world
South Korea’s research and development spending was the sixth-highest worldwide last year, rising 11.1 percent from a year earlier, a report showed on Tuesday.The government, research institutes, universities and corporations spent a combined 55.45 trillion won ($52.7 billion) on R&D activity in 2012, up 5.56 trillion won from the previous year, according to the report compiled by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning.The R&D spending, worth $49.23 billion, was the sixth-largest in th
Dec. 11, 2013
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Viewing news of trauma worse than experiencing it
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― After the Boston marathon bombings, people who spent six hours a day scouring media for updates were more traumatized than those who were actually there, a U.S. study suggested.The study raised questions about the psychological impact of repeated exposure to violence via digital and traditional media in the first major terror attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001.The findings were based on a survey of 4,675 adults taken shortly after the deadly April 15 attacks and the fren
Dec. 11, 2013
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Comet ISON pronounced dead
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Comet ISON, once optimistically called the comet of the century, is dead, the victim of a way-too-close brush with the sun. It was barely a year old.The comet, which excited astronomers and the media as it zipped near the sun on Thanksgiving Day, was pronounced dead at a scientific conference Tuesday. Astronomers who had followed the ice ball mourned the loss of the sky show that once promised to light up during December.Naval Research Lab astronomer Karl Battams, who headed th
Dec. 11, 2013
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Taking pictures to remember may help you forget
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Taking a picture to help you remember something might end up having the opposite effect, according to research published in the United States.A study released this week showed that people who took photographs of items during a museum tour were less likely to remember details than those who merely looked at the objects.That is a lesson for a world growing accustomed to instant photo-sharing on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, said psychological scientist Linda Henke
Dec. 11, 2013
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Alibaba, Samsung may compete against Google
Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, China’s largest online trading company, on Wednesday met with Samsung Electronics executives including mobile chief Shin Jong-kyun. While Samsung remained tight-lipped on the matter, sources said the two sides had much to talk about, including Alibaba’s ambitions to manufacture its own version of the Google Glass -- a wearable computer fitted with an optical head-mounted display that is to serve as a ubiquitous computer. Alibaba has been quietly building the d
Dec. 11, 2013
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Video games may cause deadly thrombosis: report
Playing video games for a long time without taking breaks may be deadly, Live Science reported on Wednesday.Extended video gaming often involves no movement for a long period, which can increase the risk of developing a potentially lethal condition known as deep-vein thrombosis, or DVT, the report said. The report cited a 31-year-old man from New Zealand who spent eight hours a day playing PlayStation games for four days, and a doctor told him that deadly blood clots developed in his leg. DVT ca
Dec. 11, 2013
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Google to offer free upgrade to ‘Google Glass’
Google said Thursday it was offering a free upgrade to the new Google Glass Explorer Edition for early buyers. The upgrade is said to be faster and more durable, with an added slot to install on ordinary glasses.But Google said the renewed version would not be compatible with first-generation accessories. The offer is valid through Feb. 5 and is open to those who bought Google Glass before Oct. 28.The high-tech wearable device works as a miniature computer, featuring a side-mounted touchpad and
Dec. 11, 2013
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European probe on course for a landing on a comet
It's been likened to a parachutist trying to land on a mountaintop. Or a person attempting to leap from one speeding car to another.The European Space Agency is planning to land an unmanned spacecraft on a comet next year in an unprecedented and exquisitely tricky mission that has been underway for almost a decade and is about to enter a critical new phase.The agency announced Tuesday that its Rosetta probe, which has been journeying through space since its launch in 2004, will be awakened from
Dec. 11, 2013
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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 sales top 10 million units
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, said Tuesday that global sales of its Galaxy Note 3 smartphones have surpassed the 10 million mark since its release in late September.The milestone comes two months earlier than its predecessor, the Galaxy Note 2. It took nine months and four months, respectively, for the Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 2 to reach the mark, according to Samsung.The new Galaxy Note 3 phablet, with a 5.7-inch screen, is an upgraded version of the 5.5-inch Gal
Dec. 10, 2013
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Indian firms, a rising threat to Korean phone makers
India’s mobile phone makers are expanding their presence in the global smartphone market on the back of strong demand at home and sales of lower-priced devices, industry data showed on Tuesday.Micromax emerged as the world’s 11th-largest mobile phone maker in the third quarter, surpassing HTC, Motorola and Blackberry, and became the No. 2 smartphone brand in India, with a record 14 percent share, according to the latest data compiled by Hong Kong-based Counterpoint Technology Market Research.Sam
Dec. 10, 2013
