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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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[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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[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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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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S. Korea lowers COVID-19 warning level, lifts last-remaining antivirus mandates
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Facebook launches K-pop page
Facebook said Monday it has launched a K-pop music page to help fans of Korean pop music around the world to engage with their favorite K-pop stars more actively. The page, provided jointly by Facebook and Korea’s largest entertainment agency SM Entertainment, will be updated with the latest K-pop news and content in both Korean and English.On Monday morning at 11 a.m., Seoul time, the K-pop page had photos and information from the SM Town Concert in Los Angeles. The page is seen at www.facebook
May 21, 2012
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Hilarious YouTube video shows ‘Gramp’ schooling street-ballers
A comical video clip of a seemingly old man taking on young basketball players is entertaining hundreds of thousands online.In this video, “uncle Drew,” is asked by his “nephew” to play in place of an injured player during a pick-up basketball game.After air-balling first couple of shots, uncle Drew starts draining threes, crossing over opponents before finally throwing an alley-oop pass to himself and throwing it down.“Too easy out here against these young buds,” boasts uncle Drew.Spectators ca
May 21, 2012
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to ``married'' on Saturday.Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, California, home, capping a busy week for the couple.Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the Univer
May 20, 2012
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Japanese lobbying against N.Y. ‘comfort women’ memorial backfires
Japanese officials’ demand to remove a monument dedicated to the memory of wartime sex slaves in New Jersey has backfired, according to the New York Times. The Times said Japanese lobbying to remove the monument had made the Korean community there determined to build more of themAccording to the article, James Rotundo, the mayor of Palisades Park, where the monument is located, said the lobbying began late last month when Japanese officials sent e-mails requesting a meeting with the borough admi
May 20, 2012
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Men equate steak with masculinity
Men connect eating meat -- especially muscle meat like steak -- with masculinity, but vegetables were not considered masculine, U.S. scientists found.(MCT)Study authors Paul Rozin of the University of Pennsylvania, Julia M. Hormes of Louisiana State University, Myles S. Faith of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Brian Wansink at Cornell University said several studies showed meat ge
May 18, 2012
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Korean shellfish at risk for feces exposure, U.S. says
The U.S. is curbing shellfish imports from South Korea after food safety regulators determined that inadequate sanitation may have exposed oysters, mussels, clams and scallops to human fecal waste. The Food and Drug Administration removed Korean shippers from its certified shellfish list on May 1, Curtis Allen, an agency spokesman, said in an e-mail today. The FDA cited risks from water and land-b
May 18, 2012
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Seoul buses run uninterrupted after union, management strike deal
Buses in Seoul were running smoothly Friday after unionized drivers struck a last-minute wage deal with management and scrapped plans to strike.(Yonhap News)The breakthrough agreement came after marathon talks between the union and management, who agreed to a 3.5 percent wage increase and a 40,000 won (US$34) increase in extra pay for accident-free driving, officials said.Plans to strike from 4 a.
May 18, 2012
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S. Korean satellite successfully reaches earth's orbit
South Korea's multipurpose satellite equipped with a high-resolution camera successfully reached the earth's orbit after blasting off from a Japanese space center, the government said Friday.The Arirang 3 satellite, which lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center south of Kyushu Island at 1:39 a.m. on Japan's H-IIA rocket has made contact with ground stations, indicating that it has entered a c
May 18, 2012
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Study: Students can have fun without booze
(Yonhap Photo)Research indicates students in college can have as good a time at a party if they don't drink, U.S. researchers suggest.Lori Scott-Sheldon of the Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I., analyzed data on 19 studies involving more than 1,400 U.S. college students.The study, published in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behavior, found students were less likely to drink alcohol when the
May 17, 2012
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Coffee buzz: Study finds java drinkers live longer
One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn't matter.The study of 400,000 people is the largest ever done on the issue, and the results should reassure an
May 17, 2012
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Man keeps son’s bride as sex slave
A Pakistani father-in-law, 56, who kept his son’s bride as a sex slave was caught when she learned enough English to call 999.The 22-year-old Pakistani bride came to the U.K. following an arranged marriage and the father-in-law imprisoned and made her swear on the Koran that she would keep the abuse a secret. When she came to the U.K. in 2008 at the age of 18 she wasn’t able to speak English but after three months she learned enough to phone 999 emergency to ask for help. She said that she conte
May 16, 2012
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Junsu says new music video cost ‘a lot of money’
Junsu, a member of the popular music group JYJ and a rising musical star, said on Wednesday that he wouldn't mind if he was called Xia Junsu, which he had used for the formerly five-member boyband TVXQ.He said that his newest music video of “Tarantallegra,” the first single from his solo album, may be one of the most expensive music videos he has ever made.“If you had watched it, you could’ve imagined that it would be one of the most expensive music videos. If I considered only the Korean market
May 16, 2012
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Jogye order hit hard by scandals
The Jogye Order, South Korea’s largest Buddhist sect, is plunging deeper into crisis following a string of revelations of unbecoming and illegal conduct among monks. The scandal erupted last week when Buddhist monk Seongho exposed an all-night gambling and boozing party among his fellow monks, prompting nationwide criticism.He exposed on Tuesday that Ven. Myungjin and the order’s treasury chief Ven. Jaseung went to “room salons,” establishments that often facilitate prostitution. Jogye responded
May 16, 2012
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Ko Young-wook accused of two more sexual assaults
TV celebrity Ko Young-wook, who is under police investigation on allegations of raping a teenager, has been accused of two more sexual assault charges by two other victims, police said Wednesday.Last week, Ko denied allegations that he intentionally got an 18-year-old female entertainer-aspirant drunk to rape her at his home.According to the police, the 36-year-old was summoned again to a police station in Yongsan on Tuesday afternoon over additional allegations and was questioned for more than
May 16, 2012
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Viruses can be tapped for electric power
U.S. researchers say electricity generated by viruses could bring devices that generate power from everyday human activities like walking.A paper-thin "viral" generator embedded in the sole of a shoe could charge a person's phone as they walk, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory said.The power would be generated by harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricit
May 16, 2012
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Weather girl ‘disappears’ on TV
A U.S. weather woman demonstrated on a live TV show why meteorologists never wear green.Wearing a green dress to show why the color is avoided on TV, FOX 2’s Jessica Starr appeared to disappear into the weather map in the background, leaving just her arms and face visible.The effect was caused by chroma key, also known as a green screen.The technique is used for layering two images or video streams together to remove the background from the subject of a photo or video.During the show, one of the
May 9, 2012
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찢긴 돈 붙이면, 남편이 애써 모은 돈 갈가리 찢은 사연은?
중국에서 900만원이 넘는 지폐가 갈가리 찢긴 사건이 화제가 되고 있다고 지난 월요일 영국 데일리메일이 보도했다.린자오창(31)이 정신분열증을 앓고 있는 아내의 치료비를 위해 애써 모은 5만 위안(약 903만원)의 지폐가 아내의 손에 의해 찢겨 그 조각들을 은행에 갖고 와 도움을 청했다.찢긴 돈을 붙이는 작업을 위해 6시간 동안 모두 12명의 은행 직원이 동원됐다. 그러나 작업 끝에 겨우 지폐 한 장을 완성했을 뿐이었으며 끝내 돈 붙이는 작업을 포기했다.한편 린 씨의 안타까운 사연은 중국의 언론매체 및 소셜 미디어 사이트인 웨이보를 통해 중국 전역에 알려졌다.언론 보도 후에 두 명의 자원봉사자가 자신이 사는 지역에서 수 백 킬로미터 떨어진 청두까지 가서 린 씨을 돕고, 자선단체와 지방단체에서 성금을 보내는
May 8, 2012
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'LG전자 구글TV 5월 17일에 나온다’
LG전자는 오는 17일 구글TV를 미국에 출시 할 예정이라고 7일 밝혔다.LG전자의 한 고위관계자는 올해 구글TV의 첫 모델인 3D기능까지 겸비한 자사의 TV를 다음 주 17일에 시장에 내놓을 계획이라고 말했다.이와 함께, LG전자는 모션인식이 가능한 QWERTY 키보드도 함께 선보일 예정이다. LG의 구글TV는 지난 1월 라스베가스에서 열린 세계 최대 규모 가전쇼인 CES에서 공개된 바 있다. 코리아헤럴드 조지현기자 LG Electronics to roll out new Google TV on May 17LG Electronics will roll out its new Google TV in the U.S. on May 17, strengthening its alliance with the U.S.-ba
May 7, 2012
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'김연아 술 광고 금지하라’
한국중독정신의학회는 6일 “국내 맥주 광고에 국민 피겨스타 김연아 선수가 출연하고 있는 데 대해 우려를 표명한다”며 대중 광고 중지를 촉구하는 내용의 성명을 발표했다.학회는 국민 스타로서 청소년에게 큰 영향력을 행사하는 김연아가 맥주 광고에 출연함에 따라 음주 문화를 조장하는 결과를 낳고 있다고 지적했다. 한국중독정신학회는 현재 주요국가별 술 광고 규제현황을 보면, 미국은 연방 알코올음료 관리법을 토대로 메이저리그 선수 등 스포츠 선수의 주류 광고 출연을 금지하고 있고, 영국도 독립방송협회의 윤리규정에 따라 ‘어떠한 주류 광고도, 젊은층에 인기있는 유명 인물을 등장시켜서는 안된다'라고 전면 금지시키고 있다’고 예를 들었다. 하지만 현재 한국은 운동선수들의 음주광고 규제가 없으며, 이에 대한 정부의 조치가
May 7, 2012
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'길거리 최면' 주의! 피해 사례 속출
57세의 한 여성이 거리에서 즉각적인 최면을 당해 16만 달러 이상의 금품을 갈취 당하는 사건이 발생했다.피해자는 4월 15일 보스턴의 차이나타운에서 쇼핑을 하고 있던 중 세 명의 여성이 다가와 어깨를 치면서 질문을 하기 시작했고 이로 인해 최면에 걸려 금품을 빼앗겼다고 현지 경찰이 밝혔다.세 명 중의 한 명이 피해자에게 말을 거는 사이 다른 두 여성들은 그녀에게 비닐봉투를 건네주었고, 집에 돌아가 봉투 안에 귀금속 등을 담아 몇 시간 뒤 보스턴 커먼으로 다시 나오라는 지시를 최면으로 한 것으로 추정하고 있다.최면에 걸린 피해 여성은 집으로 돌아가 비닐봉투에 목걸이, 옥팔찌, 금반지 2개와 여권, 현금 등 16만 달러 가치의 물품을 넣은 뒤 지시받은 약속장소로 가서 비닐봉투를 세 명의 여성들에게 넘겨주었다.
May 6, 2012