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Trump called Korea a 'money machine.' This is how Korean media translated it.
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Korea to pump in W8.8tr in 2025 to contend in global chip race
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Ex-Seoul police chief acquitted of negligence in Itaewon crowd crush
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New multilateral N. Korea sanctions monitoring team debuts in Seoul
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[Exclusive] Weverse accused of exploiting labels, fans with new mandatory paid-membership service
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[Herald Interview] 'Culinary Class Wars' explores today's views on fairness: creators
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Han Kang says she wants to 'meet readers through writing' in her 1st public speech since winning Nobel Prize
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First lady cleared of stock manipulation allegations
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'I would like to live in peace quietly,' Han Kang tells Sweden's SVT
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NK's gradual unveiling of constitutionalizing ‘2 hostile Koreas’ exposes dilemma: experts
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Man who can guess time could bear the Olympic torch
Fans dedicated a Facebook group to a local celebrity to make him the town’s official Olympic torch bearer, according to reports. Gordon Roberts from Bournemouth, England, is getting the support of 4,500 people who plan to nominate him as their “inspirational member of the community.”With his trademark white beard, scarf and jacket, the 82-year-old is known as a “big part of the community and alwa
July 28, 2011
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U.S. man attempts self-surgery with butter knife
GLENDALE, California (AP) -- A man stuck a butter knife into his belly in a failed bid at self-surgery to remove a painful hernia, police said Tuesday.The wife of the 63-year-old Glendale man called paramedics on Sunday night and told the emergency operator her husband was using a knife to remove a protruding hernia, Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.“She said he had impaled himself with a knife,” Lorenz said.
July 27, 2011
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S.African 'corpse' wakes up, scares off morgue staff: report
CAPE TOWN, July 24, 2011 (AFP) - A 50-year-old South African man thought to be dead woke up in a chilly morgue on Sunday and shouted to be let out, scaring off two attendants who thought he was a ghost, local media reported."His family thought he had died," health spokesman Sizwe Kupelo told the Sapa news agency."The family called a private undertaker who took what they thought was a dead body to
July 25, 2011
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Winning lottery slip found in lost wallet
A wallet has been returned to its owner one week after being lost -- with a winning lottery ticket still inside. The winner is said to have bought 10 pension-type lottery tickets, handing them out to friends and keeping just one.After getting drunk, however, he lost his bag with the wallet inside. Luckily, he was able to get the belongings back a week after the announcement of the winner.The winne
July 21, 2011
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Lunar eclipse turns moon blood red
SYDNEY, June 16, 2011 (AFP) - The longest lunar eclipse in more than a decade turned the moon blood red on Thursday, yielding a rare visual treat for stargazers across a large swathe of the planet from Australia to Europe.The first eclipse of the year -- when the Earth casts its shadow over the moon -- was seen in parts of Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.Often the moon turns brown in an eclipse
June 16, 2011
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Is a chimp smarter than a 4-year-old?
Chimps spit water into tube to reach peanutsIn Aesop’s fable “the crow and the pitcher” the bird uses stones to raise the water level in a jug. Chimps in an experiment showed a similar problem solving skills to obtain some peanuts.A research team in Germany tested this challenge on five gorillas, 43 chimpanzees and three groups of 24 kids aged 4, 6 and 8. The subjects were given a 26 centimter gla
June 14, 2011
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SK텔레콤, 해외사업은 계속 '꽝'인 이유...
국내에서는 1위 무선통신사업자인 SK 텔레콤이지만, 유독 해외무대에서는 연이은 고배를 마셨다. 미국과 중국 같은 여러 해외시장에 발을 들여놓으려고 지난 6년 동안 노력해왔지만 대부분이 실패했다. 정만원 SKT 전 대표도 이런 현상을 빗대어 “잃어버린 6년”이란 표현을 썼을 정도다. 국내에서는 우수한 성적을 거두는 SKT가 해외시장에서 맥을 추스르지 못하는 이유는 해외시장에 대한 이해부족과 과감한 재정적인 투자가 뒷받침이 되지 않았기 때문이라고 전문가들은 얘기한다. “통신망이라는 게 국가적인 재산인데 성공하기가 쉽지 않다. 기왕 할거면 엄청난 투자가 들어가야 하는데 그런 부분은 하지 못하면서 퍼포먼스는 빨리 내고 싶어하기 때문”이라고 안재민 키움증권 애널리스트는 말했다. 시장에 대한 이해없이 사업을 벌인
June 12, 2011
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SK텔레콤, 해외사업은 계속 '꽝'인 이유...
국내에서는 1위 무선통신사업자인 SK 텔레콤이지만, 유독 해외무대에서는 연이은 고배를 마셨다. 미국과 중국 같은 여러 해외시장에 발을 들여놓으려고 지난 6년 동안 노력해왔지만 대부분이 실패했다. 정만원 SKT 전 대표도 이런 현상을 빗대어 “잃어버린 6년”이란 표현을 썼을 정도다. 국내에서는 우수한 성적을 거두는 SKT가 해외시장에서 맥을 추스르지 못하는 이유는 해외시장에 대한 이해부족과 과감한 재정적인 투자가 뒷받침이 되지 않았기 때문이라고 전문가들은 얘기한다. “통신망이라는 게 국가적인 재산인데 성공하기가 쉽지 않다. 기왕 할거면 엄청난 투자가 들어가야 하는데 그런 부분은 하지 못하면서 퍼포먼스는 빨리 내고 싶어하기 때문”이라고 안재민 키움증권 애널리스트는 말했다. 시장에 대한 이해없이 사업을 벌인 대
June 12, 2011
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Leona Helmsley's millionaire dog dies
NEW YORK — "Trouble," the pooch who inherited $12 million from hotel mogul Leona Helmsley, has died, heading to the hunting grounds in the sky and leaving a trail of money and legal disputes behind.The pampered Maltese bitch with a curly off-white coat died December 13, spokeswoman Eileen Sullivan said, but news only emerged Thursday.She was 12 in human years, or 84 in doggie years, just shy of th
June 10, 2011
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Waking up with a foreign accent
An American woman named Karen Butler went to the dentist to remove several teeth and came out speaking a foreign -- slightly Irish -- accent. She is believed to be suffering from a rare neurological disorder called foreign accent syndrome (FAS). This complication was first diagnosed in Norway in 1941 when a woman was hit by shrapnel from an air raid in World War II. Since then, there have only be
June 9, 2011
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Police under fire for ignoring threat before gruesome murder
Local police in Essex, Britain, came under fire after they ignored 100 text messages by a man threatening to kill his ex-partner. He shot the woman and their 2-year-old dead in their home on Sunday, according to Daily Mail Online. The killer also shoved his shotgun into the mouth of her 10-year-old daughter, who saved her life by climbing through the window onto the kitchen roof, according to the
June 8, 2011
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NM boy, 9, becomes youngest to fly balloon solo
TOME, New Mexico (AP) -- Nine year-old Bobby Bradley floated into history early Saturday, taking off solo in a hot air balloon and landing perfectly about a half-hour later to become the youngest trained pilot to accomplish such a feat.As the morning sun rose in the remote New Mexico town of Tome, Bradley took off in the company of three other balloons, whose pilots included a designated balloon e
June 5, 2011
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Homemade Danish rocket takes off
COPENHAGEN (AFP) - A home-made rocket built by two Danes successfully blasted off from a floating launch pad off the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm Friday, nine months after its first test flight failed due to a defective hair drier."It was like seeing a missile and it came over us a couple of kilometres up. We are ecstatic and will be going home with everything we have learned," one of the Dani
June 5, 2011
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Murder accomplice caught by a single message
A simple text message helped police uncover who the accomplice was in a heated murder case. The murder case, revealed two weeks ago, involved a university professor who killed his wife and threw her body into the Nakdong river. The body of the wife was discovered on May 21, 50 days after she was reported missing. Kang, her husband and a university professor, admitted to the killing after his arres
May 31, 2011
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Blackbeard's anchor recovered off US coast
A 3,000 pound anchor from what is believed to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, is recovered from the ocean where it has been since 1718, on Friday, May 27, 2011 in Beaufort Inlet, in Carteret County N.C. Crew member Mitchel Gilliland, right, helps guide the anchor aboard the Dan K. Moore. (AP-Yonhap News) (AP-Yonhap News)MOREHEAD CITY, North Carolina (AP
May 29, 2011
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[Photo] Celebrities at Paeksang Arts Awards
Celebrities show off their evening gown and tuxedos at the 2011 Paeksang Arts Awards held on Thursday in Seoul. Ko Hyun-jung Kim Nam-joo Moon Geun-young Lee Min-jung Lee Byung-hun Tang Wei Hwang Jung-eum Tang Wei Hwang Jung-eum
May 27, 2011
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애플 팀쿡 방한의 진짜 목적은?
서울 서초구 삼성전자 서초사옥에서 열린 삼성전자 갤럭시S2 미디어데이에서 모델이 갤럭시S2를 소개하고 있다. (연합뉴스)애플 팀쿡 방한의 진짜 목적은?애플, 삼성에 아이패드3용 아몰레드 도입 타진애플의 최고운영책임자인 팀쿡이 최근 한국 방문에서 삼성의 아몰레드 (AMOLED) 디스플레이 기술을 아이패드3에 적용하기 위해 삼성 측과 협의를 벌인 것으로 알려졌다.“애플은 삼성의 아몰레드 기술을 일명 아이패드 3라고 불리는 아이패드 2의 업그레이드 버전에 적용시키고자 하는 것으로 알고 있다,”고 한 업계 관계자가 코리아 헤럴드에 전했다.팀쿡은 또한 삼성측에 선수금도 제의한 것 같다고 이 관계자는 덧붙였다.애플은 현재 올해 3월에 출시된 아이패드 2를 포함한 모든 태블릿 PC에 LCD 디스플레이를 사용하고 있다.삼
May 25, 2011
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Farewell Oprah!
Stevie Wonder (left) performs for Oprah Winfrey as Jamie Foxx looks (right). (AP)Maria Shriver appears with Oprah Winfrey during a star-studded double-taping of "Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular," Tuesday, May 17, 2011, in Chicago.(AP)Winfrey reacts as she is surrounded by Will Smith, his wife Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Jordan (AP)Aretha Franklin and Oprah Winfrey acknowledge fans. (AP)O
May 18, 2011
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Children's Day photos
Photographs showing children in different parts of Seoul on Wednesday in celebration of Children's Day. (Yonhap News)
May 5, 2011
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[단독인터뷰] 김영하 '트위터 다시 안 할 것'
Korean author Kim Young-ha in New York (Kim Yoon-mi/The Korea Herald)'팟캐스트 '김영하의 책 읽는 시간' 곧 재개할 생각'트위터를 접겠다고 선언했던 소설가 김영하는 최근 코리아헤럴드와 뉴욕에서 가진 단독 인터뷰에서 트위터를 다시 할 생각은 전혀 없다고 밝혔다.트위터를 다시 할 의향이 없느냐는 질문에 김영하는 “트위터를 안 하니까 편하다. 안 하고 나서 좀 더 느긋해졌다”고 대답했다.그는 “(트위터를 할 때는) 매일 뭔가를 얘기 해야 할 것 같고 그랬는데 여기서 그걸 끝내고 나서 1주일이건 한 달이건 어떤 문제를 혼자 생각할 수 있게 되었다” 라고 말했다.그는 어떤 이슈에 대해 말을 한다는 건 “압력솥의 뚜껑을 여는, 김이 새는 효과”와 같다고 설명했다
May 3, 2011