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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Korea enters full election mode
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Court upholds jail term for man who attempted to murder ex-girlfriend
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The science of growing hamburger in the lab
LONDON (AP) ― At a public tasting in London on Monday, Dutch scientists served a single hamburger made from cow stem cells. Some questions and answers about the science behind the revolutionary patty, how it could help combat climate change and what it actually tastes like.Q: What are stem cells?A: Stem cells are an organism’s master cells and can be turned into any other cell type in the body, i.e. blood, tissue, muscle, etc. Adult stem cells are found in small numbers in most human tissues, in
Aug. 6, 2013
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Instant coffee contains the highest level of caffeine
Instant coffee mix holds the highest level of caffeine among all coffee drinks according to a report from South Korea’s Food and Drug Ministry on Tuesday.A single kilogram of instant coffee mix contains an average of 8,134.3 milligrams of caffeine while brewed coffee from coffee houses contains 677.8 milligrams and canned coffee 590.0 milligrams per kilogram.Caffeine included in coffee mix also varied from 640 milligrams to 68,780 milligrams, depending on the brand. The report also revealed that
Aug. 6, 2013
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LG denies it attempted to bribe U.S. journalist
LG Electronics Inc. on Tuesday denied a report claiming it attempted to bribe the tech news website TechCrunch in exchange for favorable reviews of its new smartphone model LG G2.An LG official told The Korea Herald that John Giggs, a TechCrunch journalist who claimed LG attempted to pay him off for good reviews, must have misunderstood its advertisement request originally directed to the media’s advertising department.“Our PR agency Burson Marsteller made an inquiry about sponsored packages (of
Aug. 6, 2013
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‘LG attempted to buy reviews for new phone’
LG Electronics Inc. had attempted to pay for favorable reviews of its new smartphone model LG G2, a potentially compromising revelation that could taint the long-anticipated product launch of the South Korean tech company, a tech news website said Monday.John Giggs of TechCrunch claimed that he recently received an email from a member of LG’s Korean PR agency Burson Marsteller, asking for a review of the LG G2 in exchange for an unspecified amount of money.Giggs said the offer included an in-dep
Aug. 6, 2013
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More earthquakes hit Korean Peninsula
The Korean Peninsula has become more prone to earthquakes with the number of tremors soaring nearly 55 percent over the past three years, the state weather agency said Monday.According to the Korea Meteorological Administration, a total of 65 quakes were observed in the first seven months of this year, up 54.8 percent from 42 for all of 2010.This year‘s figure compares with 52 in 2011 and 56 in 2012, the weather agency said, adding that the final tally for this year, if this trend continues, may
Aug. 5, 2013
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Ministry to invest W1.6b in satellite program
The government vowed on Monday to invest 1.6 billion won ($ 1.43 million) over the next three years to nurture qualified professionals in the satellite industry.The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning has partnered with the Satellite Technology Research Center of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology to jointly develop new training courses for selected postgraduate students and researchers. The ministry said it was seeking to increase manpower in the space industry from rou
Aug. 5, 2013
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Samsung appeals ITC ruling on Apple’s patent infringement
In yet another twist in a series of patent wars with Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest smartphone maker, has submitted an appeal of a June ruling by a U.S. agency which said the iPhone maker was not infringing upon some of the South Korean company‘s patents, industry sources said Monday.Samsung’s appeal in the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit came as U.S. President Barack Obama last week issued a veto on a patent ruling by the International Trade Commission tha
Aug. 5, 2013
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After Higgs breakthrough, CERN readies for next cosmic quest
A year ago, the world's largest particle collider made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science, identifying what is believed to be the Higgs Boson -- the long-sought maker of mass.Today, its computer screens are dark, the control desks unstaffed and the giant, supercooled tunnel empty of the crashing proton beams whose snapshots of the Big Bang helped flush out the elusive particle.But the silence is an illusion.Behind the scenes, work is pushing ahead to give the vast machine
Aug. 5, 2013
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Japanese rocket takes supplies, robot to station
TOKYO (AFP) ― Japan launched a cargo-carrying rocket Sunday loaded with supplies for the crew of the International Space Station, along with a small robot meant as a companion for one of the country’s astronauts.The H-2B rocket blasted off from the southern island of Tanegashima at 4:48 a.m. local time, images broadcast by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency showed.According to JAXA the launch had gone to plan.“The HTV4 module has separated from the rocket as scheduled and continues its journ
Aug. 4, 2013
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Gravitational tide the secret of Saturn’s moon
PARIS (AFP) ― Enceladus, a white moon of Saturn with ice-spewing volcanoes, owes its strangeness to tides of gravitational forces exerted by its mother, a study said. Discovered in 1789 by William Herschel, Enceladus measures only 504 kilometers across yet is one of the great oddities of the solar system. Its surface is a gorgeous white shell of ice, rather than asteroid-pocked rock and dust, and the surface is pristine except for a network of fractures near its south pole. These cracks ― dubbed
Aug. 4, 2013
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Samsung may release latest phablet next month
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest smartphone maker, may roll out its latest phablet, the Galaxy Note 3, at a trade show next month, industry sources said Friday.According to the sources, Samsung is planning to showcase the phablet ahead of or during the IFA Berlin to be held from Sept. 6 to 11.Samsung unveiled its Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 2, respectively, in 2011 and 2012, at the industrial fair.Specifications on the device were not immediately known, but the phablet will run on th
Aug. 2, 2013
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Google office suite to take on MS
Google appeared set for further improvements to make up for the shortfalls of its online office applications to challenge Microsoft in providing a more flexible working environment in the fast-changing business era. Participating at the Google Apps Conference 2013 in Seoul on Friday, Google Enterprise manager Kim Seon-il said, “Google will create an office environment in which people can work anytime and anywhere.”Google provides around 70 web-based applications including Google Drive, Google Do
Aug. 2, 2013
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The rainy season and depression
During the rainy season, the decreased amount of sunlight can cause people to feel depressed. This is similar in mechanism to the development of seasonal depression during autumn and winter when there is a decreased amount of sunlight. However, the duration of the rainy season is shorter, which means that this type of depression is not as severe.Decreased sunlight leads to decreased production of melatonin, a neurotransmitter, which disrupts the circadian rhythm and causes depression. Melatonin
Aug. 1, 2013
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USAID hails breakthroughs in infant, maternal health
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Security Adviser Susan Rice called for more “eureka moments” and “unorthodox partnerships” on Wednesday, as she addressed scientists working on decreasing nfant and maternal mortality in poor countries.Researchers, many of whom were finalists for a competitive USAID grant, came up with varied schemes, including using a football to stop women from bleeding to death after birth, using contaminated hospital waste to keep hands cleaner and engineering bacteria to fortify yogurt wi
Aug. 1, 2013
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LG Uplus open to Apple’s next iPhone
LG Uplus, the third-largest mobile carrier in Korea, said Thursday that the door was wide open for Apple’s next iPhones and iPads as the mobile carrier now fully supported the Long Term Evolution service.At a press meeting Wednesday aboard a Hangang River cruise, LG Uplus CEO Lee Sang-chul said “many leading phone makers from China and Japan are now asking LG Uplus to carry their handsets.” He added that the firm aims to earn recognition as the leading LTE provider through its “single” LTE for v
Aug. 1, 2013
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Monogamy may sound sweet, but why it evolved isn’t
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Only a few species of mammals are monogamous, and now dueling scientific teams think they’ve figured out why they got that way. But their answers aren’t exactly romantic.The answers aren’t even the same.One team looked just at primates, the animal group that includes apes and monkeys. The researchers said the exclusive pairing of a male and a female evolved as a way to let fathers defend their young against being killed by other males.The other scientific team got a different a
Aug. 1, 2013
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Earthquakes trigger undersea methane reservoirs: study
Earthquakes can rip open sub-sea pockets of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, according to a study by German and Swiss scientists published on Sunday.Quake-caused methane should be added to the list of heat-trapping carbon emissions that affect the world‘s climate system, although the scale of this contribution remains unclear, they said.The evidence comes from cores of sediment drilled from the bed of the northern Arabian Sea during a research trip by marine scientists in 2007.One of the
Aug. 1, 2013
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Dongbu Daewoo targets China’s premium market
Dongbu Daewoo Electronics has chosen China as its first overseas target market, with a focus on high-end consumers in key metropolitan areas such as Shanghai and Beijing, the company said Wednesday. “Instead of competing against low-end Chinese products, our aim will be to focus on the premium value of Korean-made products to target mainly the upper-class consumers,” said Kwon Dae-hoon, a spokesperson for Dongbu Daewoo Electronics.The company has been aggressively ramping up marketing after Dong
July 31, 2013
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Samsung said near purchase of German screen firm Novaled
Samsung Group is nearing an agreement to acquire Novaled AG, a German maker of materials used to light up smartphone and television screens, two people with knowledge of the matter said.“We are internally reviewing plans to acquire Novaled, but no details have been set yet,” said Lee Tae-hun, a spokesman for Cheil Industries Inc., the chemical and electronic materials unit of South Korea’s largest conglomerate, in a telephone interview.A deal to buy Novaled for more than $200 million may come as
July 31, 2013
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Samsung SDS out to capture new opportunities
Alfred Koh, one of the few Korean-American IT experts among the top Samsung brass, wants to take the next step forward --and so does his company, Samsung SDS.The first step the company recently took toward the future was, albeit at the urgings of the government, to shift its focus to the overseas markets. The firm was basically edged out of all the financial and government systems integration work on the home turf.But SDS appeared to be prepared, since the move was immediately followed up by a c
July 31, 2013