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[AtoZ into Korean mind] Humor in Korea: Navigating the line between what's funny and not
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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Yoon seeks rebound, taps 5-term lawmaker as chief of staff
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Medical standoff deepens as doctors reject new med school plan, talks
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[Graphic News] 77% of young Koreans still financially dependent
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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[Herald Interview] Why Toss invited hackers to penetrate its system
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S. Korean envoys convene to navigate strategy amid Middle East tensions
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North Korea fires several short-range ballistic missiles into sea: JCS
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Samsung, SK hynix investors dump shares on Nvidia crash
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Samsung to spend W170b on software
Samsung Group, South Korea’s top family-owned conglomerate, said Wednesday that it plans to spend 170 billion won ($153 million) in training software engineers and nurturing the related industry over the next five years.The group also said it plans to hire over 2,000 software engineers every year through 2017, up almost 30 percent from an average seen in the past few years.Samsung will also offer software-related training courses for 50,000 students over the next five years.“The plans will help
May 15, 2013
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‘Naver too dominant’
Choi Mun-kee, the minister of science, ICT and future planning, on Wednesday said the nation’s most influential Web portal Naver was too dominant.“(Naver) seems to have too much of the market,” Choi said, saying that when companies go over the line, they should switch modes to focus more on social contribution.“Naver, however, still seems to be concentrating to much on making the pie bigger,” the minister said in a press conference. He added that the “young CEO” ― Kim Sang-hun, CEO of NHN, which
May 15, 2013
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Samsung, LG execs receive recognition on Invention Day
Samsung Electronics’ mobile chief Shin Jong-kyun was awarded the distinguished Gold Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit by the Korean Intellectual Property Office on Wednesday, which was national Invention Day.At LG Electronics, a senior researcher, Ahn Joon-ki, was crowned as this year’s invention king.The Gold Tower Order is awarded to individuals and companies that have shown outstanding performance in contributing to national interests. Shin of Samsung was recognized for his role in help
May 15, 2013
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Korea to expand sales network for MVNOs
The government said Tuesday that it will allow so-called mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) to sell their mobile phone services through the country’s state-run postal service provider starting from September, in a bid to help lower mobile rates and households’ communication bills.MVNOs borrow networks from existing mobile carriers at wholesale prices, thus offering their services at cheaper rates compared to existing mobile operators.They can offer cheap mobile rates because they do not sp
May 15, 2013
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Minister calls for lower communication costs
Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning Choi Mun-kee on Wednesday called for lower communication costs for Korean households, saying that monthly prices of 120,000 won to 130,000 won are ideal.“With the introduction of smartphones, phones have virtually become computers. Because the price of these handsets are going up due to the sophisticated features that are being added, it’s difficult to keep the prices down. We hope there will be a way to maintain prices at 120,000 won to 130,000 won w
May 15, 2013
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Sanofi Pasteur to give homeless free flu vaccines
The Korean branch of Sanofi Pasteur, a French vaccine manufacturer, said Wednesday it would provide free flu vaccines to 7,000 homeless people this year.The drug maker has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Korea Association of Welfare Institute for the Homeless, a nonprofit organization, to deliver the vaccines to neglected people in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province.The plan would provide protection to more than 80 percent of the homeless people registered at support centers and
May 15, 2013
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KAIST team develops ‘unbreakable’ screen
A group of scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has discovered a way to produce an “unbreakable” screen, which may pave the way in display technology, the school announced on Tuesday.The research team led by Yoon Choon-sup used polyamide film instead of glass.Researchers have already been looking at using polyamide film, but so far failed to put it to practical use because of its weak heat-resistance and durability.The KAIST team noted that they have increased t
May 14, 2013
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S. Korea ranks 3rd in number of secure Internet servers
South Korea took the third spot among 143 countries in terms of the number of secure Internet servers in 2011, the country's ministry in charge of IT and science said Tuesday.The country had 2,496 secure Internet servers per million people in 2011, the third-largest after Iceland and the Netherlands, the Ministry of ICT, Science and Future Planning said, citing data compiled by the World Economic Forum (WEF).Secure Internet servers are servers using encryption technology in Internet transactions
May 14, 2013
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SK Hynix signs deal with Chongqing
SK Hynix, the world’s second-largest chip supplier, signed a deal with the Chinese city of Chongqing for chip testing and packaging, the Seoul-based company said on Monday.Under the agreement, the two sides will establish a joint corporation based on a memorandum for investment. Chongqing will be responsible for the backend processing involving mainly the testing and packaging of chips, the company said. SK Hynix appeared to believe that the investment would be mutually beneficial, with the chip
May 13, 2013
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GS EPS to build Asia’s top biomass plant in Korea
GS EPS Co., a local energy firm, said Monday that it will spend 300 billion won ($269.5 million) to build Asia’s No. 1 biomass generation plant in a bid to tap deeper into the renewable power industry.The envisioned plan calls for GS EPS to construct the plant that will use a mix of agricultural byproducts to generate electricity in Dangjin, some 123 kilometers south of Seoul.In a groundbreaking ceremony held earlier in the day, the company said it plans to complete the plant by August 2015. The
May 13, 2013
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LG to invest W120b in environmental safety
LG Electronics Inc., the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, said Monday that it plans to spend 120 billion won ($107.8 million) to beef up its environmental safety program, including chemical spill prevention, by 2015. LG also said it will expand the number of chemical experts and improve its fire protection system as part of the plans. The investment plan came after a highly poisonous hydrofluoric acid leak at Samsung Electronics Corporation’s main chip plant took place on Thursday in the
May 13, 2013
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Samsung to offer 5G service by 2020
Samsung Electronics Co. said Sunday that it successfully developed a core technology of the fifth-generation network (5G) for the first time, aiming to enable users to access faster data services by 2020. The new wireless technology will enable customers to access a stream of data faster than the current fourth-generation network and download an entire movie in less than a second, the world's largest smartphone maker said. Under the new platform, users can download and upload data at speeds
May 12, 2013
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LG launches Optimus G Pro in U.S. market
LG Electronics, the world’s No. 3 smartphone maker, has released its Optimus G Pro smartphone in the U.S., the Seoul-based company said Friday. The launch follows the release of a 5.5.-inch Optimus G Pro at home in February, and the full HD smartphone launched by Japan’s NTT DoCoMo in March.The latest phone features an IPS display consuming 50 percent less energy, despite being twice as bright as AMOLED screens of the same size, the company said.U.S. customers can pick up the latest version of t
May 10, 2013
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Tech research firm to hold conference on 3rd platform
International Data Corporation Korea will hold its annual conference to deliver an informative overview on issues reshaping the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets at InterContinental Seoul COEX on May 15.Under the theme “Unlocking Value from the 3rd Platform: New Buyers, Offerings and Competitors,” the IT Directions 2013 Conference will provide insight into the industry’s transition to the next-generation computer platform -- built on big-data, cloud, mobi
May 10, 2013
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Korea starts work on next-gen light source
Korea will build a facility for a next-generation light source that creates high-energy X-rays, 10 billion times brighter than its current most powerful source.The government had a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday to build a “fourth-generation synchrotron radiation” facility in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province. A synchrotron accelerates particles such as electrons to extremely high energies, creating an electron beam that travels at almost the speed of light. It then uses this beam to genera
May 9, 2013
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Thick-skulled fossil cuts dino theory down to size
PARIS (AFP) ― The discovery of a new thick-skulled dinosaur the size of a large dog may challenge our image of a prehistoric Earth dominated by supersized lizards, a study said.The planet may, in fact, have been inhabited by many more types of small dinosaur than widely thought, a group of researchers wrote in the journal Nature Communications.“It would have been a world filled with a diversity of dinosaur life, both large and small,” study co-author David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum’s nat
May 9, 2013
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Ice Age language may share words with modern tongues
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Our Ice Age ancestors in Europe, 15,000 years ago, may have used words we would recognize today, according to a new study out this week in a U.S. journal.Words that sound alike in related languages are generally assumed to have come from a common route, like “father” in English and “pater” in Latin.Lead author Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading in Britain, and his team were able to take the analysis a step further by showing that certain very co
May 9, 2013
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Ministry to ease sodium limit on kids’ food despite opposition
Concerns are rising over health authorities’ plan to relax salt content limits on instant noodle products that aim to be certified as good-quality snacks for kids.The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced its plan on Wednesday to ease the sodium limit of the products from the current cap of 600 milligrams to 1,000 milligrams. The new sodium limit of 1,000 milligrams is more than half the recommended limit for a child’s daily consumption of sodium ― between 1,500 and 1,800 milligrams a day.B
May 9, 2013
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Diagnosing gastric conditions
More people in Korea than in the West complain of symptoms related to the gastrointestinal system. However, many people tend to dismiss such symptoms and do not see a doctor about it, which can sometimes lead to the progression of serious illnesses, such as gastric cancer. The best methods to maintain a healthy life is to practice the usual good lifestyle habits and have regular checkups to diagnose conditions early. Here, we will look at gastritis, gastric ulcers and gastric cancer, which are s
May 9, 2013
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Advanced facial contouring surgery attracts attention
A triangular-shaped face is popular among young Koreans in their 20s and 30s because they think it is beautiful. Demand for surgical operations to have this “V-line” shape is growing. But many of those who want to change their looks often find difficulty choosing surgical methods because many facial surgeries carry a high risk of side effects and cause excruciating pain.To this, Siot osteotomy has been grabbing attention because it cuts a smaller part of the chin bone than other existing methods
May 9, 2013