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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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Food delivery apps thrive in Korea, where 7 in 10 order via mobile
South Koreans are big on food delivery. With just a phone call, food like fried chicken and jjajangmyeon, or Chinese black bean noodles, can be brought to one’s doorstep. While much of this dynamic still stands, Korea’s food delivery market is quickly changing and expanding in scope, mainly riding on demographic shifts and going mobile. Food deliveries are becoming more popular than ever, fueled by single-person households who prefer food deliveries to eating out alone. Smartphones have also st
June 13, 2018
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[US-NK Summit] Twitter launches ‘high-five’ emoji for US-North Korea summit, draws backlash
Social media giant Twitter has launched a special emoji to mark the historic US-North Korea summit taking place in Singapore, on projections of an upturn in social media traffic. Ahead of the historic meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Twitter encouraged users following the event to use a series of hashtags to activate a new special emoji.“US President @realdonaldtrump will meet North Korea Chairman Kim Jong-un on 12 June in Singapore,” said a tweet fr
June 12, 2018
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[US-NK Summit] South Korea’s foodtech startup launches North Korea’s best restaurant guide
A South Korean food technology startup has launched a new restaurant guide introducing the top-rated restaurants in North Korea to wish for peace and the reunification of the Korean Peninsula, as the historic US-North Korea Summit was held in Singapore on Tuesday. SikSin, Korea’s leading restaurant recommendation and rating app, said it has launched the world’s first-ever “North Korea’s best restaurant guide” on its mobile app and website.The SikSin platform now has a new “North Korea category”
June 12, 2018
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Naver to disallow repetitive comments on news articles, place stricter posting limits
Naver, the operator of South Korea’s most widely used portal website, will disallow users from posting the same comment multiple times on a news article, as part of continued efforts to revamp its news display system and prevent macro automation software. The move is the latest in Naver’s series of responses to an opinion rigging scandal in which a power blogger named “Druking” and politicians used a computer program to artificially ramp up the number of clicks on the “agree” button for specifi
June 12, 2018
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LG Innotek to mass produce ultra-hard thermoelectric chips next year
LG Innotek, an electric parts manufacturing subsidiary of LG Electronics, said Tuesday it has completed a facility for mass production of nanometer-class thermoelectric chips for a variety of applications from home appliances to vehicles and vessels. The company has established a production line for the product in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, and will embark on mass production next year, it said. Thermoelectric chips are known as innovative semiconductors that produce power by heating and co
June 12, 2018
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SKT invests in mobile media startup to boost music platform business
Mobile carrier SK Telecom said Monday it invested 10 billion won ($9.3 million) in MakeUs, a mobile media company, as part of efforts to strengthen its music platform business. MakeUs is a startup that creates mobile content about topics ranging from music, food and traveling to beauty, for Facebook and YouTube. It is followed by more than 330 million users on social network sites. The firm runs a music channel called “Dingo Music” which is gaining popularity for providing music videos adjusted
June 11, 2018
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[From the Scene] Ride-hailing giant Grab joins hands with SK for lead in future mobility
SINGAPORE — In Singapore, you will most likely spot green-colored vehicles or motorbikes roaming the streets in every part of the city. Though they may be an unfamiliar sight to foreign tourists, they’re a part of the everyday mobility scene in the city-state as well as most parts of Southeast Asia. Meet Grab, the largest ride-hailing app in Southeast Asia. Based in Singapore, Grab’s fleet of private vehicles, taxis and motorbikes currently dominates the ride-hailing market in eight countries i
June 11, 2018
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Credit bureau at center of IP infringement allegation
A financial technology startup and major credit bureau are locked in a fight, with the former claiming the Korea Credit Bureau violated intellectual property rights on the startup’s technology to allow user verification with a single finger touch on a smartphone.Korean financial technology startup Hankook NFC said it is filing complaints against Korea Credit Bureau, its former business partner to create the authentication system, for infringing its patent rights on the authentication technology
June 10, 2018
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Korean Air to host annual IATA meeting in Seoul next year
Korean Air will host an annual meeting of air carriers around the world next year in Seoul, to discuss the future of commercial aviation industry and pending safety issues.The International Air Transport Association is the world’s largest organization for air carriers. It holds a general meeting every year, bringing executives from air carriers, aircraft manufacturers and related industries from all around the world. Named a host of IATA’s general assembly, Korean Air hopes to upgrade the global
June 8, 2018
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Samsung ramps up AI R&D overseas
South Korean tech titan Samsung Electronics is accelerating its research and development efforts on artificial intelligence capabilities abroad by hiring renowned experts and top talents, according to the industry on Friday. At three newly opened AI centers in Toronto, Cambridge, England, and Moscow last month, efforts are being made to secure top talents from the AI field to help lead the centers. In Toronto, the new center led by Larry Heck, senior vice president of Samsung Research America, i
June 8, 2018
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[From the Scene] KT SAT aims to connect flights, ships around the world
GEUMSAM, South Chungcheong Province -- On a vast landmass of around 61,000 square meters in Geumsan County in South Chungcheong Province, a total of 45 satellite antennas have been erected to communicate with five KT SAT-owned satellites revolving in an orbit. These antennas are there to enable 510 vessels in waters and 333 aircraft flying over the sky to stay connected with onshore areas, providing secured communications and remote management and control of the ships and flights. Established in
June 7, 2018
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Samsung’s first micro LED display hits global market
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday announced the official launch of the first micro LED display for industrial use at a trade show in the US, commercializing the next-generation display technology. Named “The Wall Professional,” the micro LED signage display is the first modular type bezel-less display whose size can be adjusted by users for different purposes. Micro LED panels, which feature miniature light-emitting diode arrays, come with smaller, brighter modules and improved response speed com
June 6, 2018
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KT chairman suggests ICT solutions for ‘Smart Boracay’
KT Chairman Hwang Chang-gyu introduced the mobile carrier’s information and communication technology solutions for Boracay, a small island in the Philippines, suggesting turning the tourist island into a “smart” one in a meeting with Philippine government officials, the company said Wednesday. In a meeting with acting Minister Eliseo Mijares Rio Jr. of the Department of Information and Communications Technology, incoming ICT Minister Gregorio Honasan and Jonas R. Leones, vice minister for enviro
June 6, 2018
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Seoul asks Beijing for fair investigation into Korean chipmakers
South Korea's industry minister called on China to fairly conduct an antitrust probe into two Korean chipmakers as regulators are reportedly looking into their alleged price fixing, his office said Tuesday.Paik Un-gyu, South Korean minister of trade, industry and energy, made the request during a meeting with China's Commerce Minister Zhong Shan in Beijing in which they discussed ways to expand economic cooperation and investment between the two nations. Paik Un-gyu, South Korean minister of tr
June 5, 2018
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Samsung’s first CIO David Eun to focus on new vision
Samsung Electronics recently appointed David Eun, president of Samsung NEXT, as the tech giant’s first chief innovation officer, according to the industry on Tuesday. The latest appointment and creation of the new position are seen by the industry as a sign of aggressive investments in startups and new businesses under the leadership of heir apparent Lee Jae-yong. Harvard graduate Eun joined Samsung in 2011 after working at Google. In late 2012, he was tapped to head Silicon Valley-based Samsung
June 5, 2018
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Samsung hires two AI experts to boost machine learning
Samsung Electronics scouted two renowned experts on artificial intelligence from the United States in a move to strengthen its AI capabilities, the tech giant said Monday. The company announced it is adding H. Sebastian Seung, professor at the Neuroscience Institute and Department of Computer Science at Princeton University, and Daniel D. Lee, chair professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, to its AI Center under Samsung Research. Seung and Lee
June 4, 2018
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Lung cancer incidence rate suggests more women smoking than official count
The actual smoking rate among women is likely to be nearly triple the official count of 6.4 percent, due to women's underreporting, a health professor said in a report Monday.The smoking rate was measured at 40.7 percent for men and 6.4 percent for women in 2016.According to Jeong Geum-ji of Yonsei University's graduate school of public health, the difference between men and women in the incidence rate for lung cancer was narrower than the gap in the smoking rate. In 2015, for example, 17,015 me
June 4, 2018
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Many breast cancer patients can skip chemo, big study finds
Most women with the most common form of early-stage breast cancer can safely skip chemotherapy without hurting their chances of beating the disease, doctors are reporting from a landmark study that used genetic testing to gauge each patient's risk.The study is the largest ever done of breast cancer treatment, and the results are expected to spare up to 70,000 patients a year in the United States and many more elsewhere the ordeal and expense of these drugs. "The impact is tremendous,'' said the
June 3, 2018
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Samsung heir’s Hong Kong trip sparks restructuring rumors
Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong’s trip to Hong Kong raised questions Sunday among industry insiders over its significance, with some saying that he might be preparing for more governance restructuring to complete his succession.Lee left for Hong Kong on Thursday for meetings with global business partners, according to Samsung officials, although details of the meetings have not been disclosed yet. But industry insiders remained mixed in their assessments of his trip to the financial hub of Asia, citin
June 3, 2018
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Heartbreaker? Smoking causing millions of heart attacks, strokes: WHO
While the link between smoking and a range of cancers is well known, the World Health Organization warned Thursday there was too little awareness of tobacco's impact on the human heart.On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day Thursday, the UN health agency hailed that smoking had declined significantly since year 2000, but warned that there were still far too many people indulging in the dangerous habit.And it cautioned that research showed there was "a serious lack of knowledge" about the differ
June 3, 2018