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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Hybe's multilabel system tested amid conflict with Ador
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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SNU profs to suspend treatment for one day
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SK hynix pledges W20tr to ramp up DRAM production at home
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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Pianist Cho Seong-Jin named Berlin Philharmonic's artist-in-residence
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NASA, Europeans uniting to send spaceship to moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― NASA is teaming up with the European Space Agency to get astronauts beyond Earth’s orbit.Europe will provide the propulsion and power compartment for NASA’s new Orion crew capsule, officials said Wednesday. This so-called service module will be based on Europe’s supply ship used for the International Space Station.Orion’s first trip is an unmanned mission in 2017. Any extra European parts will be incorporated in the first manned mission of Orion in 2021.NASA’s huma
TechnologyJan. 17, 2013
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Curiosity readying to drill on Mars
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Scientists have zeroed in on a Martian target for the Curiosity rover to drill into a rock outcrop as flat as a pool table that’s expected to yield fresh insight into the red planet’s history.Running a tad behind schedule, Curiosity was due to arrive at the site in the next several days. After an inspection of the surroundings, the car-size rover will test its drill for the first time “probably in the next two weeks,” project manager Richard Cook of the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
TechnologyJan. 17, 2013
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Politics holds up science belt project
President-elect Park Geun-hye is looking to enhance the country’s science and technology competitiveness with the establishment of a powerful new ministry that will oversee research and development policies and industrialization of innovations. But it seems Park is already facing a major obstacle with the delay of a project to build a mega science and business complex that promised to house world-class basic science research organizations and related business facilities.The government is plannin
TechnologyJan. 17, 2013
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Norovirus spreading fast: KCDC
The number of cases of food poisoning caused by the norovirus sharply surged last year, health authorities said on Thursday.The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a total of 49 cases of norovirus infection were reported last year, an 88.5 percent increase from 26 cases in 2011.The virus spreads quickly, particularly during the winter time. People must wash their hands as frequently as possible until March this year to prevent further infection, the agency said. Noroviruses are
TechnologyJan. 17, 2013
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Cancer center for women holds symposium
Ewha Womans University Hospital Cancer Center for Women will hold a symposium on the latest medical progress on cancer treatment on Jan. 25 at its hospital in Mok-dong, western Seoul.Speakers for the event are renowned medical doctors and researchers on women’s cancers, including Seoul National University Hospital professor Park Ung-yang, Korea University Hospital professor Kim Yeol-hong and Dr. Yoo Byeong-cheol of the National Cancer Center.They will talk about the challenge of developing cance
TechnologyJan. 17, 2013
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Australian study points to potential cure for AIDS
SYDNEY (AFP) ― An Australian scientist said Wednesday he had discovered how to turn the HIV virus against itself to stop it progressing to AIDS, describing it as a major breakthrough in finding a cure for the disease.David Harrich, from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, said he had successfully modified a protein in HIV that the virus needed to replicate and instead made it “potently” inhibit virus growth.“I have never seen anything like it. The modified protein works every time,” sa
TechnologyJan. 17, 2013
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Common hip problems
The hip is the joint that connects the pelvis to the leg. Pelvic disease often occurs in this joint, which supports much of the body’s weight and has a structure commonly described as a ball and socket. When walking, the joint can be placed under 3-4 times more pressure than caused by body weight, and when running, this pressure can be 10 times more.Pelvic disease can occur after the middle-aged years. Fractures For younger people, fractures around the joint are usually caused by serious acciden
TechnologyJan. 17, 2013
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Stem-cell venture goes offshore to sidestep regulations
The Ministry of Health and Welfare and RNL Bio Co., a Seoul-based bio venture, are locking horns over controversial stem cell operations on Korean patients in Japan and China arranged by the firm.The government is considering taking legal action against the stem cell developer for a violation of Korean pharmaceutical law that bans injections of manufactured stem cells without approval from the state-run drug agency.Officials claim the firm has evaded the Korean law because it administered stem c
TechnologyJan. 17, 2013
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Credit card firms face probe over fees
The Financial Supervisory Service will dispatch inspectors to the headquarters of seven major credit card firms next week, in a bid to find out whether they charged retailers irregular service fees.“Starting on Jan. 21, the investigation into the overall credit card industry will be carried out over the next three weeks,” an FSS official said on Thursday.He said the financial regulator had demanded the seven issuers to tender a variety of documents on the card transaction fees on retailers befor
Jan. 17, 2013
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Shares slip on foreign selloff
South Korean stocks closed marginally lower Thursday, as overseas investors continued to dump shares amid lingering economic jitters and a strong local currency, analysts said. The Korean won edged up against the U.S dollar.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index shed 3.18 points, or 0.16 percent, to finish at 1,974.27. Trading volume was heavy at 821.3 million shares worth 4.06 trillion won ($3.84 billion) with losers outnumbering gainers 450 to 342. “Investor sentiment has become more
Jan. 17, 2013
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Korea not to levy taxes on clergy: ministry
SEJONG (Yonhap News) ― The Finance Ministry said Thursday that it has decided not to impose taxes on priests, monks and other religious leaders anytime soon, apparently leaving the controversial issue to the incoming government.The decision, which is part of the ministry’s tax code revision proposal unveiled earlier in the day, comes amid expectations that the government might push ahead with its earlier confirmed plan to tax the clergy under the principle that “there is a tax where there is an
Jan. 17, 2013
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LS Industrial wins $67m deal in Iraq
LS Industrial Systems Co., a leading South Korean manufacturer of electric components, said Thursday it has won a $67 million deal to build a power distribution control center for the Iraqi government.Under the deal with Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity, the company will build seven distribution control centers across the country by early 2015, LS Industrial said in a press release. The deal is the biggest a local firm has won in the smart grid sector.The distribution control center, which operate
Jan. 17, 2013
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Samsung-LG dispute escalates
Samsung Display Co. has filed a suit against LG Display Co. seeking the invalidation of the latter’s patents on liquid crystal display, according to legal industry sources Thursday, the latest move in a heated patent tussle between the two display giants.LG Display, the world’s No. 2 maker of LCD, first raised three patent infringement claims on LCD technologies against Samsung Electronics Co. and Samsung Display.In a suit filed with the Seoul Central District Court last month, LG Display argued
TechnologyJan. 17, 2013
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E-Land signs deal to buy K-Swiss
Apparel giant E-Land Group inked a deal on Thursday to acquire Nasdaq-listed U.S. footwear company K-Swiss, Inc. for $170 million, becoming the first Korean company to buy a listed American fashion firm.Through taking over K-Swiss, which saw its sales halve from 2005 to around 600 billion won in 2011, E-Land plans to beef up its footwear line and business in China.About half of K-Swiss’ sales come from the U.S., and the other half from Europe and Asia.“By expanding our sports brand business from
IndustryJan. 17, 2013
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Dutch court rules in favor of Samsung
A Dutch court on Wednesday ruled that Samsung Electronics did not infringe on design-related patents of Apple Inc. for its Galaxy tablets, including the flagship 10.1.“We welcome the court’s decision, as making unreasonable claims involving the general design will not be helpful for the consumers or for the development of the industry,” the Suwon-based company said in a statement. Samsung and Apple have been enmeshed in a high-profile patent battle for over a year now, with Samsung ordered to pa
TechnologyJan. 17, 2013
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Uljin nuke reactor halts on malfunction
The first reactor of the Uljin nuclear power plant in Uljin, North Gyeongsang Province, suspended its operations due to a technical malfunction, Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power said Thursday. The breakdown in a power measurement instrument in the reactor stopped operations, but the reactor is safe and without signs of radiation leakage, the KHNP said. The 25-year-old first reactor of the Uljin nuclear power plant, which has the power generation capacity of 950 megawatts, has raised safety concerns
Jan. 17, 2013
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BOK to brief transition team on nation’s economic outlook
The Bank of Korea is expected to brief the transition team of President-elect Park Geun-hye on overall monetary policy and economic outlook on Friday.BOK officials said that the subjects presented would range from overviews of its monetary policy to household debt and its economic forecast for 2013. Although the team’s official policy briefing ended on Thursday with the statistics bureau, the team included the central bank at the last minute after it had omitted it from the seven-day briefing sc
Jan. 17, 2013
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Shipbuilders vying for W4tr UAE project
The nation’s top two shipbuilders ― Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding and Maritime Engineering ― are competing to win a $3.8 billion onshore oil facility construction project in the United Arab Emirates.In a recent bid made to Zakum Development Co., a subsidiary of the UAE’s state-run petroleum corporation, DSME emerged as a strong candidate by offering the lowest price, shipbuilding sources said Wednesday.DSME, in a consortium with U.K.-based Petrofac, entered a bid with a price
IndustryJan. 17, 2013
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NPS may get greater shareholder rights to rein in big firms
The National Pension Service, the country’s pension fund manager, has been increasingly called upon to carry out duties for the markets, becoming more than a mere manager of public money investing in safe assets.Whether it is stabilizing the stock market as it did at the height of the global financial crisis in 2008 or providing support to Korean companies for cross-border mergers and acquisitions, the NPS will likely once again emerge into the spotlight as a savior of sorts ― this time, for the
Jan. 17, 2013
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‘Leadership gene’ found: study
Certain qualities that allow a person to become a leader can be inherited, according to a recent study.“We have identified a genotype, called rs4950, which appears to be associated with the passing of leadership ability down through generations,” said the study’s lead author Jan-Emmanuel De Neve from University College London.De Neve, with colleagues from Harvard University, New York University and the University of California, analyzed genetic samples of about 4,000 individuals and found signif
TechnologyJan. 17, 2013