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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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Doctor group's incoming head renews call for govt. to scrap medical school quota hike for dialogue
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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[Music in drama] An ode to childhood trauma
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'The Roundup: Punishment' becomes fastest 2024 film to top 2 mln admissions
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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[Exclusive] Samsung to start supply of new portable SSD ‘T5’ next week
Samsung Electronics is preparing to supply new portable solid state drive T5 running on the company’s fourth-generation 64-layer V NAND flash memory chip early next week, according to sources on Tuesday. The South Korean tech titan has named the newest portable drive the SSD T5 and embarked on production for supply next week, a source familiar with the matter told The Korea Herald. (Yonhap)The portable SSD is a compact storage device suitable for individual users.Samsung introduced a 2-terabyte
May 23, 2017
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[Exclusive] Samsung in talks with Hyundai over OLED supply for Genesis
Samsung Display may supply its organic light-emitting diode panels for Hyundai Motor’s luxury sedan Genesis, according to sources Tuesday. If the deal is confirmed, it will be Hyundai’s first adoption of OLED panels for its automobiles. “Samsung is in talks with Hyundai to supply its OLED display for Genesis’ instrument cluster and center information display,” a source familiar with the matter told The Korea Herald.The discussion, which began last year, is still ongoing, as Hyundai is unsure of
May 23, 2017
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World IT event to showcase latest devices, technologies
South Korea's largest consumer electronics and technology trade fair will kick off in Seoul later this week to showcase the latest mobile gadgets and telecommunications technologies, the ICT ministry said Tuesday.The World IT Show, hosted by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, will kick off Wednesday at the COEX convention center in southeastern Seoul for a four-day run. (COEX)At this year's event, under the theme of "transform everything," more than 500 companies from 47 countries
May 23, 2017
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LG to kick off global sales of LG X Venture
LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it will start global sales of the LG X Venture, a smartphone specialized for outdoor activities, in the North American market.Armed with the IP68 water- and dust-resistant feature, LG X Venture is capable of operating 1.5 meters under water for 30 minutes. The device also met the standards of the US Department of Defense, indicating the smartphone can withstand most outdoor conditions. An image of the LG X Venture smartphone, released by LG Electronics Inc. on Ma
May 23, 2017
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[Exclusive] ETRI loses US patent suit against China’s Huawei
South Korea’s state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute recently lost a long-running patent lawsuit against China’s Huawei Technologies in the United States, sources told The Korea Herald on Monday. According to the US District Court for the Southern District of California, Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo dismissed last month a wireless patent suit filed by ETRI’s litigation agent SPH America against Huawei in 2013. A dismissal of a case means the plaintiff’s lawsuit is terminat
May 22, 2017
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Samsung Display showcases stretchable OLED
Samsung Display will unveil its stretchable display for the first time at the US display conference, the company said on Monday. The Korean display maker said it is showcasing 9.1-inch stretchable organic light-emitting diode panel at the Society for Information Display 2017, which kicks off on Tuesday at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Stretchable display is the most advanced flexible display -- among bendable, foldable and rollable -- which can be stretched to be used for various high techn
May 22, 2017
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KT eyes free Wi-Fi roaming in Japan, China
KT said Monday it would move to provide free Wi-Fi roaming services for KT subscribers when they travel to China and Japan. The mobile carrier said it proposed its partners China Mobile and NTT Docomo to cooperate on the free service at the Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement conference held in Sichuan province, China, on Monday. (Yonhap)SCFA is a consultative body among the three Northeast Asian mobile carriers, established by KT in 2011. KT aims to launch the free Wi-Fi service by the e
May 22, 2017
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SKT to launch connected car tech in second half
SK Telecom aims to commercialize two flagship connected car technologies in the second half of this year, the mobile carrier announced Monday. The No.1 telecom business said it will unveil the T RemotEye Vehicle to Everything, known as V2X, and the Remote Advanced Driving Assistance System, or Remote ADAS, at the upcoming World IT Show on Wednesday. Models test an alarm service by the Remote ADAS in a Socar vehicle on Monday in Seoul. (SK Telecom)The two technologies are under development with
May 22, 2017
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[Contribution] How do we communicate with the sensory world?
How do we perceive the world? Information in the external world, i.e., sensory information, needs to be actively processed in the brain to be transformed into a “percept.” Sensory processing (computation of sensory stimuli in the brain) is the gateway to sensory perception, and efficient sensory processing is required for the perceptual behavior of the animal. How do our brain circuits execute this amazing function? We answer this question by studying cortical circuits that control animal percep
May 22, 2017
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Samsung's production of refrigerator compressors hits 200m
Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday its accumulated production of compressors for refrigerators reached 200 million since it first started making the products in 1976.The South Korean company said compressors, which produce cold air, can be considered the "engine" of a refrigerator which combines various top-of-the-line technologies. The figure translates into the company producing a compressor unit every three seconds, according to Samsung. (Yonhap)The company said it has been making continuous
May 22, 2017
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Pantech sells US patents to stay afloat
South Korea’s former handset maker Pantech has been struggling to seek some profit by handing over its patents for the US market to a local patent troll, media reports said Sunday. According to the reports, Pantech agreed to transfer a total of 230 US patents to Golden Peak Innovations, a patent firm established in Seoul last October. (Yonhap)The patent firm was reportedly founded to help Pantech secure liquidity by transacting the company’s intellectual properties and licenses. Golden Peak now
May 21, 2017
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Patent for virtual personal assistants up sharply on future prospects
Patent requests for virtual personal assistants have shot up in recent years, official data showed Sunday, on growing prospects that artificial intelligence will become a part of our everyday lives.According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the number of applications for AI-based smart assistant programs stood at just 11 in 2013, but this jumped to 36 in the following year and reached 61 filings in 2016. (Yonhap)The office said the interest shown reflects ongoing trends that assistant
May 21, 2017
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China chasing Korea in larger LCD panel market
Chinese display manufacturers are chasing their South Korean rivals closely by planning to release a larger volume of liquid-crystal panels over 32 inches this year, said a market researcher Sunday. According to a report on the 2017 shipment strategies of Chinese TV panel makers by IHS Markit, Chinese LCD panel suppliers are forecast to ship out a total of 320,000 large-size panels larger than 32 inches by the end of this year, a 33 percent surge from last year. While ramping up production capac
May 21, 2017
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ICT ministry to hold forum on foldable display tech
A forum on a new technology to develop silver nanowire-based film, considered a groundbreaking tech for the mass production of foldable displays, will be held this week, the ICT ministry said Sunday.The forum to take place on Tuesday is part of the so-called government-run "Nano Fusion 2020," a project to commercialize technologies developed by the combination of nanotechnologies and conventional technologies, said the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. (Yonhap)The "flexionet" technol
May 21, 2017
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Downloads of AhnLab's smartphone security app top 4 mln
AhnLab Inc., South Korea's largest computer anti-virus service provider, said Friday that its latest smartphone security application has surpassed the 4 million mark in cumulative downloads.AhnLab said in a statement that the "V3 Mobile Security" app, which is designed for Android-based smartphones, reached the download milestone on Tuesday.The free-of-charge security app also placed fifth in the popularity rankings of overall applications available on Google Play, the company added. Launched in
May 19, 2017
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COOLJAMM Company to release iOS version of its HumOn
Startup COOLJAMM Company announced Thursday that it is planning to release an iOS version of its independently developed music composition application “HumOn” in August. HumOn is a mobile application that analyzes a melody hummed by the user and converts it into sheet music and even creates accompaniment chords. In this way, the application enables those with no professional training in music to create and write their own music simply by humming a tune. A screenshot of the music composition app
May 19, 2017
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Crevel Korea signs business agreement for toy blocks with large Chinese distributor
Startup Crevel Korea announced on Thursday that it entered into a business agreement with the large Chinese baby goods store Cheerbb for the use of Crevel’s trademarks and trademark rights and technology transfers related to its products. Crevel produces innovative toy blocks designed to nurture the creativity of infants and children.The most prominent feature of Crevel’s toy blocks is that they are made from a flexible material, unlike the typical rigid and sharply angled products of other comp
May 19, 2017
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Radsone to launch Kickstarter campaign for high-definition Bluetooth receiver
Startup Radsone announced Thursday that it will be launching a campaign on Kickstarter, the American crowdfunding platform, for its high-definition Bluetooth receiver EarStudio on May 31. A Radsone spokesperson explained the product, saying, “EarStudio uses dithering to eliminate the noise that is present in most digital audio signals, allowing for the reproduction of sound that is both natural and sharp. We will be selling EarStudio on Kickstarter to early-bird customers at the discount price o
May 19, 2017
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SK C&C offers enhanced cloud service for corporate customers
SK Holdings C&C, an information technology solution provider of SK Group, announced Thursday it will start providing a comprehensive cloud service package for corporate customers seeking digital transformation. Cloud Z, first launched last August, is a hybrid type of private cloud operated by individual companies and public cloud managed by third-party specialist cloud firms. SK C&C has been offering the Cloud Z service for an estimated 300 global companies. Cloud Z is connected to a total of 40
May 18, 2017
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LG targets US premium home appliance market with Google AI
LG Electronics announced Thursday it will apply Google’s voice recognizing artificial intelligence to its premium home appliance lineup under the LG Signature brand for the US market starting this month. The South Korean home electronics provider said it demonstrated Google Home-equipped LG home appliances at the Google I/O developer conference held in Mountain View, California on Wednesday. Google Home is an AI-based speaker, powered by Google Assistant. LG showcased talking to an LG Signature
May 18, 2017