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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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Shinsegae faces showdown with investors over SSG.com's delayed IPO
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Korean mobile carriers launch LTE data sharing service
South Korean mobile carriers KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. said Wednesday they plan to introduce a service that enables long-term evolution data sharing among multiple mobile devices, as a growing number of people own more than one mobile gadget. “The number of mobile gadgets owned by an individual is increasing as people are using them for different functions. The LTE data sharing plan will increase customer satisfaction since they can share LTE data among various devices,” a KT official said in
Dec. 12, 2012
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Is Samsung’s heir-apparent close to succession?
Samsung heir-apparent Lee Jay-yong has been the man of the hour in the nation’s business circles since he was appointed vice chairman of Samsung Electronics last Wednesday.Although the Lee’s promotion was widely predicted as he is the only son of Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee, the timing took observers by surprise as the country is getting ready for the Dec. 19 presidential election.Korean businesses have tended to stay low key during the election period, especially since candidates f
Dec. 12, 2012
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Asteroid came close to the Earth
An asteroid approached the Earth closely on Dec. 11. If it crashed into the Earth, it could have destroyed an area more than three times the size of Seoul, experts say.The 36-meter-wide asteroid named “2012 XE54” passed just 230,000 kilometers from Earth -- 156,000 kilometers closer than the moon. An asteroid of a similar size hit Siberia in 1908 and flattened 2,000 square kilometers.As the cycle of the asteroid “2012 XE54” is 2.72 years, scientists said it would be back, once more close to the
Dec. 12, 2012
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S. Korean mobile carriers launch LTE data sharing service
South Korean mobile carriers KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. said Wednesday they plan to introduce a service that enables long-term evolution (LTE) data sharing among multiple mobile devices, as a growing number of people own more than one mobile gadget."The number of mobile gadgets owned by an individual is increasing as people are using them for different functions. The LTE data sharing plan will increase customer satisfaction since they can share LTE data among various devices," a KT official sai
Dec. 12, 2012
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Biologic link to being gay or lesbian
Epigenetics -- how gene expression is regulated by temporary switches called epi-marks -- appears to be critical in determining sexuality, U.S. researchers say.Study co-author Sergey Gavrilets of the Working Group on Intragenomic Conflict at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and a professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and colleagues said the study solved the evolutionary riddle of homosexuality. The finding that “sexually antagonistic” epi-marks, which
Dec. 12, 2012
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Image of 'hobbit' human created
An Australian anthropologist has created what she says is an evidence-based image of the tiny "hobbit" species known as Homo floresiensis.With a background in forensic science, Susan Hayes was able to flesh out the face of a 3-foot tall, 30-year-old female based on remains uncovered in the Liang Bua cave on the remote Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.Homo floresiensis, nicknamed hobbits because of their diminutive size, lived on the Indonesian island of F
Dec. 12, 2012
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Smartphones to see through walls?
Smartphones may soon have the capability of seeing through walls courtesy of a tiny, low-cost imaging chip, U.S. researchers say.Two electrical engineers at the California Institute of Technology have invented tiny inexpensive silicon microchips that generate and radiate high-frequency electromagnetic waves, called terahertz waves.These waves are in a largely unused region of the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and far-infrared radiation and can penetrate a host of materials without
Dec. 12, 2012
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Study: Renewable energy can meet demand
Renewable energy has the potential to power a large electric grid fully 99.9 percent of the time economically by 2030, U.S. researchers say.A study by the University of Delaware and Delaware Technical Community College suggest a well-designed combination of wind power, solar power and storage in batteries and fuel cells would nearly always exceed electricity demand at costs comparable to today‘s electricity expenses, a university release reported Monday.“These results break the conventional wisd
Dec. 12, 2012
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Mobile carriers battle for edge in iPhone 5 sales
The launch of the iPhone5 on Dec. 7 has sparked a war between mobile carriers KT and SK Telecom, over hegemony in Korea’s Long Term Evolution market. Securing the largest client base is the first priority, the telecommunication firms said, to win a larger share of the smartphone market since the nation introduced LTE. Although reservations for the iPhone5 began before the official launch, not all applicants stuck to their original orders, a KT official said. The first-week iPhone sales will prov
Dec. 11, 2012
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SKT, KEB open first ‘smart’ branch
In cooperation with mobile carrier SK Telecom, Korea Exchange Bank opened its first “smart bank” branch at Seoul Square in Namdaemun, Seoul, on Tuesday.The paperless bank uses an electronic documentation system, multi-financial service machine and video counseling with bank clerks, SK Telecom said. Dubbed the “Q’Plex Seoul Square Branch,” the bank’s “Smart Branch Device” is a banking machine equipped with the latest information and communication technologies, with which customers can process som
Dec. 11, 2012
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iSolated: Bad Apple Maps directions lead to desert
The city of Mildura is not at the end of a dirt road in the Australian bush, in tire-choking desert sand far from food and water. Unfortunately, Apple‘s much-maligned mapping application thinks it is.More than two months after Apple’s CEO apologized for errors in its Maps service, Australian police say the app is ``potentially life threatening‘’ because of the bad directions it has given to the southern city. On Tuesday, a police official said Apple had ``sort of half-fixed‘’ the problem.Victori
Dec. 11, 2012
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Scientists to probe lake hidden under ice
British scientists say they are almost ready to begin an attempt to reach and analyze the water of an Antarctic lake buried under 2 miles of ice.The cold waters of Lake Ellsworth -- 9 miles long, nearly 2 miles wide and 525 feet deep -- have remained in the dark for up to half a million years, they said.Scientists say they hope a study of the ice-covered lake will help them understand the limits of where life is possible.Despite the high pressure of the lake‘s water and the absolute absence of s
Dec. 11, 2012
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Motorola to pull out of Korea
Motorola Mobility announced Monday that it would withdraw most of its operations in Korea next year, in line with its global reorganization program.The Korean unit of the mobile handset maker said it was part of the restructuring that has been conducted by its U.S. headquarters.Company officials said Motorola was realigning research and development organizations globally to focus its strength on markets where it can compete most effectively.The company added that it would retain two business uni
Dec. 10, 2012
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‘Apple created Samsung nightmare’
Apple may have turned Samsung into Frankenstein’s monster by entrusting it with the supply of iPhone components, a former employee of Apple’s strategy unit contended in a blog posting on Dec. 7. James Allworth, present fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School, said that Apple’s expensive, risky patent war against the South Korean handset maker was not the solution to end the dispute. Allworth wrote in his Asymco posting, “The problem that Apple is facing right now
Dec. 10, 2012
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Chocolate, it's all about the guilt
The very guilt associated with indulging in forbidden foods such as chocolate can, in fact, enhance women's enjoyment of them, U.S. researchers say. Lead researcher Kelly Goldsmith of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago said the study findings show "experiencing the emotion of guilt can increase pleasure," Time magazine reported In one of the study's experiments, 103 participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups. In the group primed to feel more guil
Dec. 10, 2012
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Orange vegetables may reduce breast cancer
U.S. researchers found women with the highest levels of carotenoids -- found in produce -- in their blood had the lowest risk of breast cancer. A. Heather Eliassen of the Channing Division of Network Medicine, the Department of Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and colleagues, conducted an analysis of eight studies involving 80 percent of the world's published prospective data on plasma or serum carotenoids and breast cancer.The study, published in the Journal of
Dec. 10, 2012
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Fittest students get higher grades
Middle school students in the best physical shape do better than their less fit classmates on standardized tests and report cards, U.S. researchers say.Lead researcher Dawn Coe, an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville who conducted the research as a doctoral student in Michigan State University‘s kinesiology department, said the study was among the first to examine how academic performance relates to all aspects of physical fitness -- including body fat, muscular stren
Dec. 10, 2012
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Apple Maps glitch could be deadly: Australian police
Australian police Monday warned motorists about using the map system on new Apple iPhones after rescuing several people left stranded in the wilderness, saying the errors could prove deadly.Victoria state police said drivers were sent “off the beaten track” in recent weeks while attempting to get to the inland town of Mildura, being directed instead to the middle of a national park.“Police are extremely concerned as there is no water supply within the park and temperatures can reach as high as 4
Dec. 10, 2012
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Parasite has links to self-harm
A parasite dubbed the “cat parasite” leads to self-harming behaviors such as suicide, according to Swedish researchers. However, the discovery shouldn’t raise concern as humans have been infected with it for a long time.In a study, the team first infected human dendritic cells with toxoplasma, and observed the infected ones secreting the signal substance, GABA (gamma-Aminobutyric acid). In the following experiment conducted on live mice, it found that the infected dendritic cells spread through
Dec. 10, 2012
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Firm hopes to sell $1.5b trips to the moon
Attention wealthy nations and billionaires: A team of former NASA executives will fly you to the moon in an out-of-this-world commercial venture combining the wizardry of Apollo and the marketing of Apple.For a mere $1.5 billion, the business is offering countries the chance to send two people to the moon and back, either for research or national prestige. And if you are an individual with that kind of money to spare, you too can go the moon for a couple days.Some space experts, though, are skep
Dec. 9, 2012