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Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Will tug-of-war between doctors, government end soon?
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Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
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Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
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[Graphic News] More Koreans say they plan long-distance trips this year
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[KH Explains] Hyundai's full hybrid edge to pay off amid slow transition to pure EVs
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North Korea removes streetlights along cross-border roads with South
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Russia's denial of entry of S. Korean national unrelated to bilateral ties: Seoul official
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Farming households dip below 1m for first time in 2023
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Samsung braces for patent war
The total number of patents that tech giant Samsung Electronics holds in the U.S. increased by more than fifteen times over the past nine years, according to the company on Thursday.Samsung’s patents registered at the U.S. patent office stood at 38,809 last year, up from 2,457 in 2007. An individual uses Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S7. (Yonhap)In 2015 alone, Samsung obtained 5,072 patents in the nation, the second highest after tech firm IBM. Since 2006, Samsung has been the second most prolific
May 26, 2016
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OLED panels to replace LCDs in smartphones: reports
Organic light-emitting diode display panels are forecast to replace liquid crystal display panels for smartphones, as Apple Inc. and other smartphone makers are moving to equip their smartphones with OLED display panels, reports showed Thursday.The global shipments of OLED display panels are expected to soar to 630 million units in 2019 from 250 million in 2015, according to a report by industry tracker IHS. The shipments of LCDs, in the meantime, are forecast to inch up from 1.29 billion to 1.3
May 26, 2016
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More seniors accessing Internet through digital gadgets
More people in the older generations are connecting to the Internet through their smartphones and other digital gadgets, although their use of applications was fewer in number and diversity than younger age groups, a survey said Thursday.Nielsen KoreanClick, basing its findings on mobile behavioral data from October 2014 to April 2016, said 77 percent of South Koreans in their 50s-60s use the Internet through personal computers and mobile phones. This is an increase from 53 percent in 2013. The
May 26, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Samsung to counter-sue Huawei
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday hinted that it might file a counter-suit against Huawei, which has sued the Korean company in the U.S. and China for infringing its technology patents. “We will take countermeasures, including a lawsuit (against Huawei),” Ahn Seong-ho, head of Samsung’s intellectual property division, told reporters after a weekly meeting of Samsung CEOs in Seoul. Samsung Group headquarters (Yonhap)His comment came after the Chinese equipment giant filed patent suits in Californi
May 25, 2016
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LG Chem named top eco-friendly energy company
LG Chem, the chemicals and battery unit of LG Group, said Wednesday that it has been named a top environment-friendly energy company by a consultative body of energy ministers from 23 countries. The Clean Energy Ministerial, which discusses the development of clean energy sources and their wider adoption, will hold the awarding ceremony of its first Energy Management Leadership Award in San Francisco next month on the sideline of their seventh meeting. The award aims to honor companies for their
May 25, 2016
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LG’s water purifier sales surge 50% in India
LG Electronics said Wednesday its water purifier sales in India soared 50 percent in the first quarter compared to a year ago, but did not reveal specific sales figures. LG entered India’s water purifier market in July 2014 -- the first time for a Korean company to do so -- tapping the nation’s burgeoning middle class who had complained about the poor condition of drinking water. A customer talks with a sales person about LG Electronics’ water purifier at a store in India. (LG Electronics)With i
May 25, 2016
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CrucialTec, Kona-I introduce biometric credit card
Fingerprint module maker CrucialTec and smart card firm Kona-I said Wednesday that they have developed a plastic card fitted with a fingerprint module, which the partners said would help beef up the security of financial transactions.The credit card will allow users to directly identify themselves by scanning their fingerprints on the biometric module installed in the 0.84-millimeter plastic card.Fingerprint module maker CrucialTec and smart card firm Kona-I roll out a credit card installed with
May 25, 2016
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[Photo News] Samsung VR at Humanitarian Summit
Korean Ambassador to Turkey Cho Yoon-su wears Samsung Electronics’ Gear VR headset at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul on Tuesday. The Korean tech giant also signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.N. Population Fund during the two-day summit to offer supersonic medical equipment, worth $150,000, to support Syrian refugees in the country. (Samsung Electronics)
May 25, 2016
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KT teams up with local firms to develop IoT bicycle
Network operator KT has joined forces with four local companies to grow the sector for connected bicycles, the company said Wednesday.The network firm and its four partners -- bike-maker Alton Sports, credit card firm BC Card, security firm KT Telecop, and insurance firm Dongbu Insurance -- signed a memorandum of understanding for the initiative in Seoul on the day.They will develop a solution that tracks down the locations of the so-called Internet-of-Things bicycles equipped with alarm sensors
May 25, 2016
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Kona I releases biometric fingerprint smart card
Korean FinTech firm Kona I Co. Ltd. said Wednesday that it has rolled out a biometric smart card that features an embedded fingerprint sensor.The new model can identify the user's fingerprint and can be used to allow access to buildings or for other ID card uses in the security sector, the company said. A new biometric smart card by Kona I (Kona I)For instance, a biometric credit card can become active for only 15 to 20 seconds when a card holder taps a finger on a sensor, company officials said
May 25, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Former Samsung engineer develops translation solution to break down language barrier
Living in a world without language barriers is not a far-fetched idea at all thanks to technological advancement, according to a big data expert in linguistic analysis. “It would be fair to say that translation technology for written language is now fully mature, and translation solutions for written language -- not for spoken language though -- are widely deployed in both the public and private sectors,” said Lea Jong-ho, chief technology officer of Seoul-headquartered translation and interpret
May 25, 2016
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Battle for TV tech leadership heats up
Competition to take the lead in standardizing imaging technology in the TV sector intensifies as two groups for different tech standards make all-out marketing efforts to win the race.The HDR technology improves contrast ratio and color accuracy. In layman’s term, it helps TVs generate brightness and darkness better and display more real-life colors.Leading the HDR war are the two tech standards -- HDR10, an open-platform standard adopted by a number of firms including Samsung and Dolby Vision,
May 24, 2016
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Samsung, LG to boast display leadership at U.S. trade show
Korean display-makers Samsung Display and LG Display will flex their technological muscles at SID’s Display Week 2016, an annual trade show to be held from Tuesday to Thursday, in San Francisco.The display business unit of Samsung Group will showcase a host of futuristic products including organic light-emitting diode displays that can be rolled or folded, OLED displays for virtual reality gadgets and vehicles, and hologram technology. Samsung Display will showcase a rollable display at the SID
May 23, 2016
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Minority shareholders file suit against CJ HelloVision on delayed merger
Minority shareholders of CJ HelloVision, the nation’s largest cable TV operator, on Monday filed a lawsuit, demanding the company adjust the merger-swap ratio for its planned merger with SK Broadband, the IPTV unit of SK Telecom. A total of 17 shareholders, holding a combined 33,111 shares, sued the company and CEO Kim Jin-seok on Monday. CJ HelloVision CEO Kim Jin-seok (Yonhap)The lawsuit came after the merger plan, including the swap ratio of 0.476123 CJ share for each SK share, was approved b
May 23, 2016
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Endangered stork breeding attempt succeeds in central Korea
A released stork has hatched two chicks in the wild in the country's central region, marking the species' first natural breeding in the country, the Yesan municipal government said Monday, quoting a research center tasked with restoring the endangered bird.The Oriental White Stork Park in Yesan, a town in South Korea's central province of South Chungcheong, said its researchers confirmed the chicks in a nest of a female stork named Minhwang and a male stork named Manhwang on Sunday. The two are
May 23, 2016
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Government to try fast-track approval for 3D-printed medical instruments
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety is looking at the possibility of allowing limited use of medical instruments made through 3D printers before final government approval, hoping to change relevant regulations by November, officials said Monday.The attempt falls in line with the results from an inter-ministerial deregulation meeting last week where 3D-printed medical instruments were specified as a subject of eased restrictions.The ministry mentioned through public symposiums that it is conside
May 23, 2016
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[Photo News] LG OLED TV at Picasso exhibition
May 22, 2016
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Samsung to shake up employee titles
Samsung Electronics plans to announce a new structure of employee titles next month that aims to promote talented workers based on performance regardless of age or years of experience. According to industry sources Sunday, a task force team within the human resource management division has worked on the revision since the company’s announcement of a new corporate vision “Start-up Samsung” in March. Samsung has maintained a typical structure of five employee ranks that is common at other Korean
May 22, 2016
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Samsung widens gap with Apple in market share
Samsung Electronics further widened the gap with runner-up Apple in terms of smartphone sales in the first quarter.According to research firm Gartner, Samsung’s smartphone sales were slightly up at 81.2 million units in the first three months of the year, making it the world’s largest smartphone-maker and earning it 23.2 percent market share. Its archrival Apple sold 51.6 million smartphones, which compared to 60.2 million iPhones sold in the same period a year ago. Its market share was down fro
May 22, 2016
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[EYE] ‘Social diversity key to facing AI world’
As apprehension spreads among ordinary mortals over the rise of artificial intelligence to replace humans, social diversity would be the key for people to brace for the next AI generation, Korea’s renowned neuroscientist said.“Current rote-learning method that unilaterally crams knowledge into people’s brains is nothing but an attempt to train the ability that can be replaced by AI. People should come to think of the opposite question: ‘How can we have different experiences and viewpoints?’ Beca
May 20, 2016