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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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S. Korea votes in favor of Palestinian bid for UN membership
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Russia's denial of entry of S. Korean national unrelated to bilateral ties: Seoul official
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Bae Doo-na shares portraying Korean identity in Hollywood's 'Rebel Moon'
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[From the Scene] Monks, Buddhists hail return of remains of Buddhas
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Medical schools granted enrollment quota flexibility for next year
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Yoon offers first one-on-one meeting with opposition leader next week
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France rejects opening Paris flight routes to T'way Air, deals blow to Korean Air merger
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Chinese man behind drug scam targeting teens nabbed in Cambodia
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Iran fires air defense batteries in provinces as sound of explosions heard near Isfahan
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Space shuttle Enterprise reopens to N.Y. visitors
NEW YORK (AP) ― The historic Enterprise space shuttle returned to view Wednesday on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Manhattan’s far west side, protected by a structure designed to hold up in conditions worse than the storm last fall that damaged it.The ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the end of eight months of repair work for the shuttle, which was damaged during Superstorm Sandy last October when the structure around it deflated.The pioneering shuttle had surface abras
July 11, 2013
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Banks required to beef up network systems
The financial regulator said Thursday it will require banks to build a two-pronged network system in a bid to avert cyber attacks after a series of online hackings into some of their websites. The Financial Services Commission (FSC), the country's top financial watchdog, said it plans to have large banks separate their network systems into two partitions -- one for internal use and the other for online use -- by next year. Under the measures, banks must split their main operating system first in
July 11, 2013
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U.S. lawmakers propose national park on moon
The next U.S. national park may be out of this world ― literally.U.S. Congress members Donna Edwards and Eddie Bernice Johnson on Tuesday proposed legislature aimed at establishing a national park on the surface of the moon to commemorate NASA’s 1969-1972 Apollo program.“As commercial enterprises and foreign nations acquire the ability to land on the moon, it is necessary to protect the Apollo lunar landing sites for posterity,” said the bill, named Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act. The “Apollo L
July 10, 2013
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LG completes R&D center for car components
LG Electronics Co., a South Korean home appliance maker, said Wednesday that it has completed the construction of a research and development center to focus on the development of automotive parts.The R&D center will house 800 engineers to develop vehicle parts such as motors, inverters and converters for electric vehicles, it said.Last month, LG Electronics, also the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, said it will establish a new business division called the Vehicle Components Business Divi
July 10, 2013
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Korea’s IT exports reach new high in H1
SEJONG (Yonhap News) ― South Korea’s exports of information-technology products surged to a record high in the six months that ended on June 30 on growing shipments of mobile communication devices and semiconductors, the government said Tuesday.In the January-June period, the country’s IT exports reached $81.24 billion, up 10.9 percent from the same period in 2012, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.The country’s trade surplus in the IT sector also surged to a record high of
July 10, 2013
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Intel-Microsoft synergy seen to boost PC sales
Synergy between new technologies from the world’s top chipmaker Intel and software giant Microsoft may put the brakes on the decline in the PC market, according to industry officials.The introduction of Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 in August, combined with Intel’s recently released fourth-generation Haswell processor, may boost PC sales that have suffered because of the smartphone and mobile device boom over the past five years, the officials said. Microsoft is expected to release its latest operatin
July 10, 2013
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Study: Air pollution cut northern China lifespans
A new study links heavy air pollution from coal burning to shorter lives in northern China. Researchers estimate that the half-billion people alive there in the 1990s will live an average of 5{ years less than their southern counterparts because they breathed dirtier air.China itself made the comparison possible: for decades, a now-discontinued government policy provided free coal for heating, but only in the colder north. Researchers found significant differences in both particle pollution of t
July 9, 2013
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Korea’s first computer museum to open on Jeju
JEJUDO ISLAND ― Nestled beside Halla Arboretum in Jeju, Korea’s first museum dedicated to computers and gaming is set to open at the end of this month.Nexon, Korea’s top company in software and gaming, on Monday held the Nexon Computer Museum media showcase event prior to opening it to the public around July 26 this year.“Our goal is to reinstate the concept of computer and game as a form of culture in order to preserve and celebrate the rich history of technological development,” said Kim Jung-
July 8, 2013
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It’s a bug’s life: Microbes to inherit the Earth
PARIS (AFP) ― Two billion years from now, an ever-hotter Sun will have cooked the Earth, leaving microbes confined to pockets of water in mountains or caves as the last survivors, a study said.The bleak scenario is proposed by astrobiologist Jack O’Malley-James of the University of St. Andrews, Edinburgh.As the Sun ages over the next billion years, it will become more luminous, cranking up the thermostat on the Earth, O’Malley-James suggests in a computer model presented at a meeting of Britain’
July 4, 2013
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‘Cousin marriage’ doubles gene risk for babies
PARIS (AFP) ― First cousins who marry run twice the risk of having a child with genetic abnormalities, according to the findings of a study in the English city of Bradford, published Friday in The Lancet.The city, which has a high proportion of South Asian immigrants and their descendants among its population, served as a microcosm for examining the risk of blood relative couplings.About 37 percent of marriages among people of Pakistani origin in the study involved first cousins, compared to les
July 4, 2013
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U.S. researchers make ‘bionic ear’ with 3-D printer
PRINCETON, New Jersey (AP) ― With a 3-D printer, a petri dish and some cells from a cow, U.S. researchers are growing synthetic ears that can receive ― and transmit ― sound.The Princeton University scientists send bovine cells mixed in a liquid gel through the printer, followed by tiny particles of silver. The printer is programmed to shape the material into a “bionic ear” and forms the silver particles into a coiled antenna. Like any antenna, this one can pick up radio signals that the ear will
July 4, 2013
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Past decade hottest on record, warming pace fastest: U.N.
GENEVA (AFP) ― The 21st century’s first decade was the hottest on record, with temperatures rising at an unprecedented pace and weather extremes claiming over 370,000 lives, the United Nations said Wednesday.In a new report on 2001-2010, the World Meteorological Organization said land and sea temperatures averaged 14.47 degrees Celsius.This compares with the long-term average of 14 C, as measured from weather records dating back to 1881.“This is the warmest decade of this whole period,” said WMO
July 4, 2013
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Honda’s robot museum guide not yet a people person
TOKYO (AP) ― Honda Motor Co.’s walking, talking interactive robot is running into glitches in its new job as a museum guide in Tokyo. The bubble-headed Asimo machine had problems telling the difference between people raising their hands to ask questions and those aiming their smartphones to take photos at the Miraikan science museum. It froze mid-action and repeated a programmed remark, “Who wants to ask Asimo a question?’’The robot guide, shown to reporters on Wednesday, is connected by wireles
July 4, 2013
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Higgs boson evidence mounts 1 year after particle’s discovery
PARIS (AFP) ― A year since the discovery of a subatomic particle set the science world aflutter, evidence is mounting it may be the elusive Higgs boson even as researchers warn the suspense is far from over.“We have established without a doubt that we have a new particle, and that it is a boson. What remains to be done is confirm that it is a Higgs,” said physicist Pauline Gagnon, a member of the team that made the discovery at the European Organization for Nuclear Research.The elusive boson dub
July 4, 2013
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Fried fish dish crowned most unhealthy meal in America
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― A batter-laden fried fish dish packs two weeks worth of harmful trans fat in a single serving and was named worst restaurant meal in America Tuesday by a U.S. consumer advocacy group.The Big Catch meal, sold at the fast food chain Long John Silver’s, contains 33 grams of trans fat and 3,700 milligrams of sodium, said the Center for Science in the Public Interest.People should limit themselves to 2 grams of trans fat daily, according to the American Heart Association, and most
July 4, 2013
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Hearing impairment
People working in a noisy environment can develop hearing impairment as a work-related problem. The noise level from woodturning can easily exceed 90 decibels, which is the level that can cause hearing impairment. Therefore, if you work in such environments it is important that you wear earplugs. An increasing number of young people are developing hearing impairment with the use of MP3 players and other devices. The volume on many sets of headphones can exceed 90 decibels, so it is important not
July 4, 2013
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Japanese scientists create ‘human liver’ from stem cells
Scientists in Japan said Wednesday they had grown human liver tissue from stem cells in a first that holds promise for alleviating the critical shortage of donor organs.Creating lab-grown tissue to replenish organs damaged by accident or disease is a Holy Grail for the pioneering field of research into the premature cells known as stem cells.Now Takanori Takebe of the Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine and a team report in the journal Nature that they grew tissue “resembling th
July 4, 2013
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Cyber attacks hit 67 targets: ministry
A total of 67 targets including public offices and companies came under cyber attacks on June 25 and the following days, the Korean government said Thursday. The types of attacks include distributed denial of service (DDoS) and malicious codes to destruct hard disk drives. Among them, 14 organizations lost some of their data stored on hard disks due to the malicious code. At the press briefing on Thursday, the government disclosed the extent of damage by the latest series of cyber attacks. “A t
July 4, 2013
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Naver’s Newsstand service suffers setback
NHN, which runs South Korea’s biggest portal Naver.com, kicked off its news aggregation service called “Newsstand” in April, only to see plunging traffic and complaints from local news media, according to a recent forum. At a forum of online journalism experts who reviewed the portal’s news service, Sangji University professor Kim Kyung-hwan criticized the usability of the system. “The news service is very inconvenient for those who do not have a specific preference of the press.” He said it is
July 4, 2013
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Faster network draws ‘phablet war’
As the world’s top two smartphone makers, Samsung Electronics and Apple Inc., continue to vie for a larger share of the global mobile device market, the next battle is expected to focus on “phablets,” according to industry officials.With the commercialization of the LTE-Advanced network ― which can provide up to double the connection speed of the existing Long Term Evolution technology ― the two electronics giants are expected to release their latest handheld devices built for the faster network
July 3, 2013