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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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Facebook rejects anti-Zuckerberg ad
Facebook refused to put up an ad criticizing its founder Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday, U.S. media reported.According to the San Francisco Chronicle, progressive mobile carrier CREDO Mobile requested Facebook to carry an ad critical of Zuckerberg for his advocacy of constructing the controversial Keystone XL pipeline that may harm the neighborhood environment. Facebook turned down the company’s request, saying the ad may confuse Facebook users to regard it as an actual message of the CEO. “Users
May 2, 2013
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Kakao teams with Evernote for chat-memo service
Kakao, the operator of the country’s biggest mobile messenger Kakao Talk, announced Wednesday that it has formed a strategic partnership with Evernote for a service that will allow users to use the U.S.-based tech firm’s memo app while chatting. Under the agreement, Kakao Talk users will be able to not only make memos while using the app, but also to save the contents of their chats and share them with others. The Evernote app allows the users to record text or voice and send them online.The mov
May 2, 2013
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Dongbu Daewoo eyes bigger U.S. presence
Dongbu Daewoo Electronics, one of the industry’s smaller but growing players, on Wednesday said it was strengthening its ties with leading U.S. retailer Wal-Mart by stepping up its supply of microwave ovens. A total of 500,000 units are to be supplied to Wal-Mart, which is more than double the number of ovens Dongbu Daewoo provided last year.Under the deal, the electronics maker in April started to supply 50,000 ovens, which were distributed to nationwide Wal-Mart stores and subsequently sold ou
May 1, 2013
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Responding to the ‘Dark Seoul Cyber Attack’
On March 20, 2013, South Korea suffered a cyber attack that resulted in the denial of service of several major banks, broadcasters, and the defacement of the websites of a telecommunications operator. Although reported as a major cyber attack, multiple security experts reported the malware as having a relatively low level of technical sophistication. What’s concerning is this attack could have been completely prevented by simply keeping antivirus software updated, making sure Windows security pr
May 1, 2013
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LGE forecast to ship over 50m smartphones this year
South Korean consumer electronics giant LG Electronics Inc. is expected to sell more than 50 million smartphones this year on the back of strong demand for its flagship Optimus G line-up and mid and low-end smartphones, brokerage houses said Tuesday.LG Electronics, the world’s No. 3 smartphone maker, sold some 26.3 million smartphones last year.Korea Investment & Securities said in a report that LG Electronics is expected to sell 53.29 million smartphones this year. Hyundai Securities and KB Inv
May 1, 2013
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20 years on, first web page to be reborn
GENEVA (AFP) ― The world’s first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today’s Internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the Web, organizers said on Tuesday.The European Organisation for Nuclear Research said it had begun recreating the website that launched that World Wide Web, as well as the hardware that made the groundbreaking technology possible.The world’s first website was about the technology itself, according to CERN, allowing early browsers t
May 1, 2013
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Korea’s major online news service wobbles after platform change
The online news service by Naver, Korea’s most influential Web portal, is seeing a major decrease in users one month after it introduced the new platform. The situation is hampering small news companies heavily dependent on the giant website.In April, Naver adopted the “Newsstand” platform, which pooled the top pages of 53 major news outlets in Korea and presented them to the users. It replaced its predecessor “Newscast” system that randomly exposed articles from those 53 sources.According to re
May 1, 2013
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‘Galaxy S4 more fragile than Galaxy S3, iPhone 5’
Samsung Electronic’s newly launched Galaxy S4 is more susceptible to damage than its previous model Galaxy S3 or Apple’s iPhone 5, a U.S.-based insurance firm claimed.According to SquareTrade, Galaxy S4 scored seven out of 10 in an extensive durability test, in which 10 is the worst score. Galaxy S3 scored 6.5 and iPhone got five.The firm said Galaxy S4 performed worse than its predecessor, except in water resistance. Testers noted the phone’s high breakability during drop tests, and pointed out
April 30, 2013
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Upper-arm lift surgery on the rise in U.S.
Upper-arm lift is the latest trend in plastic surgery, according to a report by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. While bigger eyes, higher noses and bigger breasts still prevail in the industry, arms are definitely having their moment with the number of surgeries shooting up 4,378 percent over the past decade. The primary patients are those who have gone through dramatic weight loss and want to tighten the saggy underarm area. The new wave in the plastic surgery industry is not only ge
April 30, 2013
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Survival of fittest: Fights won on personality not on size
British and U.S. researchers suggest size may not matter in fighting; the big guy doesn‘t always win -- at least for fish.Scientists at the University of Exeter in England and Texas A&M University found when fish fight over food, it was personality, rather than size, that determined which would be victorious.The findings, published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, suggested when resources were in short supply personality traits such as aggression could be more important than s
April 30, 2013
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Microsoft’s new ad parodies battle between Samsung, Apple
Microsoft’s new ad for Nokia Lumia 920 Windows phone portrays the battle between two competitors, Samsung and Apple, in the U.S. smartphone market. It starts with a wedding ceremony where two groups of guests start to take pictures, one with the Galaxy Note 2 and the other with the iPhone 5. A brawl ensues between the two groups when one Apple user mocks a Samsung user. The scuffle turns into a rowdy scene reminiscent of the patent spat between the two tech rivals.The ad ends with the slogan “Do
April 30, 2013
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Botox less effective the more it is used
Women who regularly get Botox treatments seeking youth are becoming immune to the injection, even forming antibodies to it, a report said.German researchers published a paper in the Journal of Neural Transmission, saying that one out of 200 Botox patients come to develop antibodies which lead to ineffective results. More negative results were found among those who took a larger dose of injection than others due to medical reasons such as treating spasms or sweating. Other scientists from Britis
April 30, 2013
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Seniors seeking part-time jobs surge in 2012
The number of job seekers aged 50 and above surged in 2012 from five years earlier, data showed Monday, as more baby boomers apparently seek new career opportunities after retirement.According to the data compiled by Alba.co.kr, a Seoul-based online job portal, the number of members aged 50 and above came to 20,831 in 2012, rising nearly eight-fold from 2,730 tallied in 2007.The number of members in their 20s and 30s advanced two-fold and four-fold over the cited period, respectively, the compan
April 29, 2013
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LGE begins sale of curved OLED TVs, first in the world
LG Electronics said on Monday that it will begin accepting pre-orders for its 55-inch curved OLED TVs in Korea to once again show that it intends to stay ahead of Samsung Electronics in terms of OLED technology. The announcement marks the first time that a Korean company, including Samsung, has commercialized both flat screen and curved OLED TVs. The flat screen OLED TVs have started to ship to local customers in February.Over 1,400 LG retail stores here have started to take orders on this day,
April 29, 2013
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SK Hynix to supply Samsung as early as June
SK Hynix Semiconductor will be supplying Samsung Electronics with memory chips as early as June, industry sources said on Monday. The firm will supply enough to make up 20 percent of Samsung’s mobile business. The deal would mark the first time for SK Hynix to supply Samsung, and also would be a partnership to note as a deal between the world’s largest memory chipmakers, No. 1 Samsung and No. 2 SK Hynix. There already had been reports that Samsung wanted to diversify its mobile chip sources by l
April 29, 2013
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LG rolls out world's first curved OLED TV on home turf
Home appliance giant LG Electronics Inc. Monday released organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs with curved displays in South Korea for the first time in the world, staying ahead of a growing competition for the next-generation TV market. The revolutionary model with a 55-inch curved screen is seen to help LG widen a gap with its rival Samsung Electronics Co. and other global TV makers in the race for the burgeoning market, market watchers said. Usually, the images, when they are viewed on
April 29, 2013
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Forced exercise reduces anxiety, depression
Rats forced to exercise in a study were protected against stress and anxiety the same as rats who ran without being forced, U.S. researchers say.Benjamin Greenwood, an assistant research professor in University of Colorado at Boulder, said there was a question whether people reap the same mental benefits of exercise if they are forced to do -- as is common among high school, college and professional athletes, members of the military or those who have been prescribed an exercise regimen by their
April 28, 2013
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Galaxy S4 good, but not incredible: U.S. media
The highly-anticipated global release of Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S4 was welcomed with a lukewarm -- “good but not incredible” -- response from a number of major U.S. news outlets.The latest model of South Korean tech giant’s flagship Galaxy series is to hit the global markets on Saturday, a day after it was released in South Korea.Armed with a five-inch screen and powerful hardware that allows users to cruise through apps and videos, the smartphone is expected to present a serious challenge
April 26, 2013
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Clenching can boost memory: study
Clenching one’s fist can boost memory, U.S. researchers claimed in a recent study.Ruth Propper, an associated professor of psychology at Montclair State University, said that clenching fists while memorizing could improve recall later.Propper and her colleagues conducted research in which they divided 50 right-handed participants into five groups and asked them to remember as many words as they could after scanning a list of 72 words. The first group clenched their right hand while memorizing an
April 26, 2013
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Samsung rules in smartphones
It was no surprise to see Samsung Electronics, the world’s biggest maker of memory chips and smartphones, post a more than 40 percent increase in its first quarter net profit on the back of brisk shipments of its flagship Galaxy lineup. Net profit reached 7.15 trillion won ($6.44 billion), up from the 5.05 trillion won in the previous quarter a year earlier, the company said on Friday. On the same day, Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jay-yong and his fellow executives met with Google CEO L
April 26, 2013