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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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Main opposition pushes to ease, not postpone, tax on crypto gains
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Jobs denies tracking location rumors: reports
Apple CEO Steve Jobs (Yonhap News)Apple’s founder Steve Jobs reportedly sent an e-mail to a customer that iPhones and iPads are not being used to track users, according to a U.S. website on Monday.“We don’t track anyone. The info circulating around is false,” wrote Apple CEO Jobs in an e-mail to a customer asking for clarification on the issue, MacRumors reported.The blog says that the customer fo
April 26, 2011
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S. Korea, China bust phone scam ring targeting S. Korea
Chinese prosecutors have arrested 23 suspects over phone fraud on South Koreans, Seoul's prosecutors said Sunday, the first bust on a scam ring after the two neighboring countries agreed to thwart voice phishing scams that have caused huge financial damage in South Korea in recent years.Voice phishing involves random phone calls to dupe victims to siphon their bank accounts. Callers, growingly tra
April 24, 2011
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3D porn film beats Avatar at Hong Kong box office
HONG KONG (AFP) - A Hong Kong movie billed as the world's first 3D porn film has broken the city's first-day box office record previously set by Hollywood blockbuster Avatar."3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy" notched up HK$2.8 million ($360,000) on its first day last week, outpacing director James Cameron's science fiction epic which drew HK$2.6 million, the porn movie's publicist told AFP Thursd
April 22, 2011
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Samsung Electronics sues Apple over patents
A Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Tab is displayed at its a showroom of the headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Apple Inc. has sued Samsung Electronics Co., saying the South Korean company's Galaxy line of smartphones and tablet computers copy Apple's popular iPad and iPhone.(AP-Yonhap News)Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones, said Friday
April 22, 2011
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Koreans eat too much salt: KFDA
About 30 percent of people here eat foods that are too salty, the Korea Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday, stressing that Koreans need to cut their sodium intake. Only 24.4 percent said they eat salt in moderation, showing that the dominant palette of Koreans is “savory.”The test was conducted by studying the preference of 500 people for the saltiness of a bowl of bean sprout soup. The W
April 21, 2011
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Glaucoma patients on rise: NHIC
The number of people suffering from glaucoma exceeded 400,000 in 2009, almost double 2002’s 210,000.Aging seems to be the most common cause of the disease that can eventually lead to blindness, the National Health Insurance Corporation said Monday. Glaucoma is a complicated disease in which damage to the optic nerve leads to progressive, irreversible vision loss. It is the second most common cause
April 21, 2011
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Study: 2 million babies stillborn every year
LONDON (AP) ― More than 2 million babies are stillborn every year worldwide and about half could be saved if their mothers had better medical care, according to research estimates published Thursday in the medical journal Lancet.While the vast majority of stillbirths happen in the developing world, the rates in countries including Britain, France and the U.S. have not dropped to the degree that ma
April 21, 2011
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Chung-Ang sets standard with spine and thyroid treatments
This is the fourth in a series of articles on international clinics at major medical centers in Seoul. ― Ed.Chung-Ang University Medical Center in Heukseok-dong, Seoul, may have not been the first choice for foreigners in the past. But recently, with several renovations and the support of business giant Doosan, the hospital has been treating more foreign patients from Seoul as well as around the w
April 21, 2011
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Atrial fibrillation increases risk of stroke
Thomas is a 58-year-old manager at a pharmaceutical company. One spring morning after jogging, he noticed a slight fluttering in his chest. He decided to ignore it. But next morning he noticed he could not move his left arm and leg. Upon careful questioning, Thomas revealed that he had had several episodes of fluttering for the last few months. Thomas was diagnosed with a stroke and a type of arrh
April 21, 2011
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Learning CPR can save lives
Performed correctly, resuscitation can buy time until professional help arrivesIt is spring, time for people to put on their trainers, get out of the house and start working out again. But for those who have weak hearts, the sudden exercise regime could cause extreme pain or even cardiac arrest. “If your heart stops beating for more than four and a half minutes, you might spend the rest of your li
April 21, 2011
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Length of ring finger related to men's attractiveness
Is your ring finger longer than index finger? (The Korea Herald)PARIS, (AFP) - The longer a man's fourth or ring finger is compared to his index finger, the more likely he is to be judged attractive by women, according to a study released Wednesday.The results, published in the British Royal Society's journal Biological Sciences, unveil intricate links between foetal exposure of males to hormones,
April 21, 2011
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3-D erotic comedy shakes up Hong Kong box office
HONG KONG (AP) -- A pioneering 3-D erotic comedy has taken the Hong Kong box office by storm, beating the first-day record set by ``Avatar'' and drawing viewers from mainland China as it eyes a global rollout.The $3.5 million Cantonese-language production ``3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy'' had earned 17 million Hong Kong dollars ($2.2 million) as of Tuesday since opening last week on 73 screens,
April 21, 2011
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8 out of 10 Internet surfers using SNS: Nielsen
Eight out of 10 Internet users are using or have used at least one social network service, according to the survey conducted by Nielsen Company Korea.The survey was conducted on 1,000 Internet users in major cities in Korea including Seoul, Daejeon, Daegu, Gwangju and Busan from Feb. 25 to March 4 this year. Among the SNS platforms, Cyworld ranked most popular with 74.9 percent of respondents usin
April 21, 2011
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KT introduces new mobile financial service
KT, a major telecom operator here, launched on Wednesday a prepaid financial service named “Mobile Money” that will be linked with accounts of Industrial Bank of Korea. The service is designed for smartphones equipped with the Android operating system 2.1 or higher. Compared with other “smart” banking systems, Mobile Money has a faster and easier authentication procedure, KT said.Users can charge
April 21, 2011
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Attractive men have long... ring fingers: study
Is your ring finger longer than index finger? (The Korea Herald)PARIS, (AFP) - The longer a man's fourth or ring finger is compared to his index finger, the more likely he is to be judged attractive by women, according to a study released Wednesday.The results, published in the British Royal Society's journal Biological Sciences, unveil intricate links between foetal exposure of males to hormones,
April 20, 2011
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Twitter could be bad for romance: study
(MCT)Twitter users tend to have shorter relationships, an online survey showed. Time Online on Tuesday reported the survey of more than 830,000 people on how they feel about sex. The survey, by dating site OkCupid, showed that the more often people used Twitter, the shorter their relationships were likely to be as they became more self-loving. It also showed that women with curvy bodies tended to
April 20, 2011
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Samsung vows legal action over Apple's patent-infringement claim
Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that it will seek legal action against Apple Inc. over the U.S. company's accusation that the maker of the Galaxy S smartphone infringed upon Apple's patents. Samsung's response comes on the heels of Apple's allegation in a complaint with a U.S. court that the Galaxy S phone and the Galaxy Tab tablet computers copied design, mobile software and other patents o
April 19, 2011
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KT starts cloud computing service in U.S., Germany
South Korea’s telecom titan KT Corp. said Monday that it has started offering cloud services in three cities in the United States and Germany, aiming to attract game developers and other content providers. The telecom company rolled out remote storage services that allow streaming and downloading data from online servers in New York, Los Angeles and Frankfurt, it said in a statement. The company a
April 18, 2011
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Odd work schedules pose risk to health
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Reports of sleeping air traffic controllers highlight a long-known and often ignored hazard: Workers on night shifts can have trouble concentrating and even staying awake.“Government officials haven’t recognized that people routinely fall asleep at night when they’re doing shift work,” said Dr. Charles Czeisler, chief of sleep medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.Cz
April 18, 2011
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SMC draws patients from more nations
Its international clinic aims to be the top in world for expertise, servicesThis article the first part of a series of articles on international clinics for foreigners at medical centers in Korea. ― Ed.Samsung Medical Center’s international clinic has been praised for its latest medical techniques and for having some of the most sophisticated services. Located on the second floor of the annex buil
April 15, 2011
