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[Weekender] Can't get a date? Try a temple ... or city hall
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S. Korea successfully launches 1st spy satellite into orbit
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Try Seoul’s cheap, fulfilling street grub at Gwangjang Market
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Concerns over bedbugs rise among pet owners
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Schools brace for impact of record-low enrollment
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Hyundai Mobis develops world’s first quantum dot car display
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Day laborers, low-income earners fear lonely death
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US authorizes potential sale to S. Korea of munitions, equipment for F-35 stealth jets
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Seoul City to operate autonomous night bus
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Koreas' spy satellite launches heat up arms race in space
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Chinese billionaire confesses affair through online message
A Chinese billionaire, Wang Gongquan, announced that he is eloping with his mistress, on Chinese Social Networking Service Sino Weibo. The renowned investor’s online message to dump his wife to leave with his new love immediately went viral, The Telegraph reported. He posted the message saying, “I am giving up everything and eloping with Wang Qin. I feel ashamed and so am leaving without saying go
June 22, 2011
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SK firm opens online site on scholarships
SK Communications said Tuesday it has launched a website that provides scholarship information involving 63 scholarship foundations and 110 different academic funding programs.The country’s online portal, which runs Cyworld, said it would also hold a briefing session in Seoul and Busan this week at two universities to explain how students could easily access information on various scholarships ava
June 21, 2011
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Why is a Porsche like a peacock‘s tail? And who wants to date a guy in a Honda Civic?
A Porsche 911 Black Edition is seen at the Porsche SE annual shareholders meeting in Stuttgart, Germany, on Friday, June 17, 2011. (Bloomberg-Yonhap News)Everyone knows the racier the car, the racier the hormones.Now, researchers at the University of Minnesota have brought scientific precision to that age-old observation. To wit:Sexual signalling really works _ but not necessarily the way a young
June 21, 2011
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Aerosol reflectors in space proposed as climate change solution
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC speaks during the opening of the Nansen Conference on Climate Change and Displacement in the 21st Century in Oslo Monday June 6. 2011. (AP-Yonhap News)An U.N. body plans to develop a radical geo-engineering technology to blast aerosol "mirrors" in the space to tackle climate change, the Telegraph reported.The Int
June 21, 2011
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Prepaid mobile service to debut in S. Korea next month
SEOUL, June 19 (Yonhap) -- Eyesvision Co., a new entrant to the South Korean mobile phone market, said Sunday that it plans to launch prepaid wireless service through a leased network in the country next month.Eyesvision, which sells prepaid cards for international phone calls, said that it has agreed with SK Telecom Co. to lease the top mobile carrier's network and to roll out prepaid mobile phon
June 19, 2011
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Games company Sega becomes latest hacking victim
LONDON (AP) _ Video game developer Sega said that its online database has been hacked, making it the latest in a string of games companies to be attacked. The company sent an email to users of the Sega Pass system on Friday to warn them that email addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords had been stolen from online database. The email stressed that no financial information was at r
June 19, 2011
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Japanese lab makes meat from excrement
Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory has developed beef based on proteins from human excrement, the Huffington Post reported Friday. His idea was inspired when Tokyo sewage plant asked him to explore possible uses for the sewage and Ikeda found that the sewage contained a great deal of protein. The final product is made up of protein (63 percent), carbohydrates (25 percent), m
June 19, 2011
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Scientists ID mysterious flash in distant galaxy
This artist's image provided by the University of Warwick shows a star being distorted by its close passage to a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. (AP-Yonhap News)LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Astronomers think they have solved the mystery of an extraordinary flash spied in a faraway galaxy, saying it came from a massive black hole that devoured a star after it wandered too close.The awesom
June 17, 2011
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Facebook users more trusting, engaged
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook, it turns out, isn't just a waste of time. People who use it have more close friends, get more social support and report being more politically engaged than those who don't, according to a new national study on Americans and social networks. (Bloomberg)The report comes as Facebook, Twitter and even the buttoned-up, career-oriented LinkedIn continue to engrain themselves i
June 17, 2011
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Obesity surgery fails to extend life in older men
CHICAGO (AP) ― Very obese older men hoping to live longer may be let down by a new long-term study that found weight-loss surgery didn’t increase survival for people like them ― at least during the first seven years.Prior studies have found stomach stapling and other obesity surgeries improved survival rates after two to 10 years. The new study in mostly older male veterans suggests one of two thi
June 16, 2011
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Sunscreen for infants ‘necessary’
The American Academy of Pediatrics advised mothers to use an adequate amount of sunscreen on babies less than six months old. It said the general notion that infants do not sunburn is false and that UV-induced pigmentation, starting with baby’s first exposure to summer sun, may contribute to the development of skin cancer later. According research conducted by Dr. May Paller, skin on the backs or
June 16, 2011
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National insurance to cover diabetes test
Blood-sugar-level measuring kits for diabetes patients will be covered by national health insurance from July, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday. According to a ministry official, it costs about 50,000 won a month ($46) if one uses six kits every day. The new plan will cover 30,000 won of the monthly cost. This will help 40,000 patients nationwide save 15 billion won a year, the mi
June 16, 2011
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SMC opens Twitter account
Samsung Medical Center opened a Twitter account (@mySMC for Samsung Seoul Hospital and @myKBSMC for Kangbuk Samsung Hospital), commencing direct interactive communications with online users. The account will provide information about the hospitals and healthcare tips. The SMC will give out “gifticons” to 500 followers to mark the launch. (baejisook@heraldm.com)
June 16, 2011
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Concerned about low vitamin D levels?
Whereas vitamin D deficiency has long been recognized as a medical condition, vitamin D “insufficiency” has recently become a concern. Increased attention to this new “syndrome” has led to a substantial increase in testing for vitamin D levels in the blood, and it is expected that several million tests will be performed in the U.S. this year. If you worry about your vitamin D levels or wonder how
June 16, 2011
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FDA issues new rules for sunscreen protection labeling
LOS ANGELES ― The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued new guidelines for sunscreen labeling that will give consumers better information about the products’ effectiveness and that will, for the first time, allow labeling to claim that sunscreens protect against skin cancer and early skin aging.The agency has been considering such regulations since 1978 and released some proposed rules in
June 16, 2011
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The good, the bad and the truth on cancer
Expert advises early screening, good dietary habits and exercise to prevent cancerThere are many deadly diseases in the world but few provoke the same anxiety as cancer. Cancer is the No.1 cause of death apart from aging. As of 2008, about 178,000 people were being diagnosed with cancer every year, with about 60,000 dying of it. Those numbers are expected to soar, according to the National Cancer
June 16, 2011
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Father influences daughters’ sexual behavior
Girls' decisions about sex are significantly influenced by their father’s parenting skills, a new study shows. “Girls who receive lower quality fathering tend to engage in more risky sexual behavior -- sex without a condom, having sex while drunk, multiple sexual partners and becoming pregnant before age 19 -- in adolescence,” said Bruce J. Ellis of the University of Arizona Norton School of Famil
June 16, 2011
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Olive oil could lower stroke risk: study
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Older people who eat olive oil have a lower risk of stroke than those who do not, suggested a study of more than 7,000 French people that was published Wednesday in the United States.Researchers at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Bordeaux, France followed 7,625 people age 65 and older from three cities -- Bordeaux, Dijon and Montpellier -- for a period o
June 16, 2011
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Dispute over use of organs of those killed by euthanasia
Lungs from those who die by euthanasia are more suitable for transplant surgery, according to medical specialists from Belgium.Dirk van Raemdonck, the leader of the study from Leuven, explained that lungs taken from people who died through euthanasia were in better condition than those taken from victims of accidents.The report, “Initial Experience With Transplantation of Lungs Recovered From Dono
June 16, 2011
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Sleepy people eat more: study
People suffering from sleep deprivation are likely to be unable to resist high calorie foods, a study found.Inadequate sleep leads to an increase in the hormone ghrelin, which tells you when to eat, and decreases in the hormone leptin, which tells you to stop eating, Shelby Freedman Harris, an author of the report, said.People suffering from lack of sleep have less leptin and more ghrelin. The imb
June 15, 2011
