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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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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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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Medical reform committee kicks off despite boycott from doctors
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Hybe's multilabel system tested amid conflict with Ador
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SNU profs to suspend treatment for one day
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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SK hynix pledges W20tr to ramp up DRAM production at home
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KakaoTalk launches PC version
Korea’s most-used mobile messenger Kakao Talk on Thursday launched an open beta service for its PC version.Kakao announced the availability of the PC version to the applicants who had not been selected for the closed beta test earlier this year by sending an email.Users who received the email can access the PC version by downloading the program from the Kakao website and going through a verification process. The user interface of the desktop version resembles the mobile version, allowing users t
June 20, 2013
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Korea's mobile phone replacement rate highest among major OECD countries
South Korea's cell phone replacement rate is the highest among major OECD countries as local mobile carriers' fat subsidies and aggressive marketing lure customers to change their gadgets frequently, a report said Thursday.About 15 million South Koreans, or 28 percent of mobile phone users in the country, replace their handsets every year, according to the report compiled by DigiEco, a research unit of KT Corp.The mobile replacement rate is the highest among major OECD countries, the report said
June 20, 2013
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Dell Korea pledges to better communicate
“We feel that Dell Korea has not been able to communicate its product in the best way we could, and we want to start doing that,” said Kim Sung-jun, director of Dell Korea’s Enterprise Solutions Group.On Tuesday, Kim was introducing the company’s new network solutions, an area that despite taking up a large part of the portfolio ― over 50 percent ― of a firm that was once built around PCs. In fact, it was a start-up built on PCs, but today, Dell wants to be known as a top-notch solution provider
June 19, 2013
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Why mobile should be a top priority for execs
Today everyone is talking about mobile ― and the mobile revolution has created a new energy and excitement across industries and markets around the globe. In my travels, I meet with customers who are either moving to a mobile business strategy, are wondering if they are moving fast enough, or are overwhelmed by the challenges and the opportunities this sea change represents for their organization. These clients recognize that they have to embrace mobile to succeed as industries are being transfo
June 19, 2013
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Frequency spat escalates after KT requests bandwidth
The ongoing battle between the nation’s three mobile carriers ― KT Corp., SK Telecom and LG Uplus ― reached fever pitch this week following a request from KT to the government to put a desirable LTE frequency on sale so KT may purchase it.“It would be an undeserving privilege for KT,” said its rival SKT in a statement on Wednesday. The frequency that KT hopes to own is directly adjacent to its current frequency of 1.8 GHz, which would free KT from having to spend time and money building a broadb
June 19, 2013
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Health disparity widens between rich and poor: study
Cancer patients from high-income families have a much higher survival rate than their low-income counterparts, a report showed Tuesday.According to the Korea Institute for Health Affairs, the five-year survival rate of male cancer patients in the top 20 percent income bracket was 37.84 percent, 13.80 percentage points higher than those in the bottom 20 percent. Three-year and one-year survival rates of patients from the two income groups also differed by 14.32 percentage points and 14.69 percent
June 18, 2013
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Cisco to release new core router for soaring online traffic
In an effort to respond to rapidly increasing Internet traffic, Cisco Systems Korea announced on Tuesday that it would release a new core routing system at the end of this year.In a report released in May, the U.S.-based networking equipment maker predicted that annual global IP traffic would surpass 1.4 zettabytes by the end of 2017 ― a threefold increase from the current traffic. A zettabyte stores 1 billion terabytes of data, or about 250 billion DVDs.In Korea, the IP traffic is expected to d
June 18, 2013
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LG’s Optimus G Pro sales hit 1 million mark in Korea
LG Electronics Inc., the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, said Tuesday that sales of its flagship smartphone, the Optimus G Pro, surpassed the 1 million mark nationwide in four months since its release. The phone is was fastest to reach the figure among its smartphone lineup.Sales of the Optimus G Pro broke 500,000 40 days after its launch, becoming LG Electronics’ fastest-selling smartphone.In May, the tech giant rolled out the smartphone in the U.S. and also released the full HD smartph
June 18, 2013
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Korea joins forces with FireEye to fight cyber crimes
The government-run Korea Internet Security Agency on Tuesday said it signed a memorandum of understanding with FireEye, a U.S.-based security company specializing in fighting cyber crimes, to help keep Korea’s Internet environment safer and free of attacks. “The two sides will be sharing solutions and other security information to jointly challenge cyber threats and malware that have become borderless crimes occurring all over the world,” said Lee Ki-joo, president of KISA. He stressed that it w
June 18, 2013
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Zuckerberg asks Samsung for “Facebook phone”: sources
Mark Zuckerberg, one of the young cofounders of Facebook, on Tuesday met with Samsung Electronics executives including the heir Lee Jay-yong and mobile unit chief Shin Jong-kyun to ask Samsung to manufacture a “Facebook-friendly” phone, industry watchers said.“Facebook has every intention of becoming the second Google, and with that intent in mind, Zuckerberg is said to have asked Samsung to step up cooperation by launching a phone with a Facebook interface,” said one watcher, declining to be id
June 18, 2013
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Facebook CEO visits Cheong Wa Dae
Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a visit to Cheong Wa Dae on Tuesday.Zuckerberg met with President Park Geun-hye at around 10 a.m. at the presidential office and exchanged opinions on how to help form a creative economy, the administration’s key initiative.Zuckerberg said that he hopes small Korean companies can enter the global market through Facebook‘s platform. The social network leader said that he will continue to invest in the Korean market.He will meet with executives at Sa
June 18, 2013
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Prehistoric fish had ‘abs’: scientists
The muscle arrangement of an ancient fish may have included abdominal muscles, previously thought to be only found in land animals, an international team of paleontologists said. The scientists recently published their study in the journal Science on the preserved tissue found in the fossils of an ancient armored fish called a placoderm and managed to map its muscle arrangements.The study’s coauthor, professor Kate Trinajstic of Curtin University in Australia, told the media that she was “stunne
June 17, 2013
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Dell Korea to launch SDN-enabled tool
Dell Korea on Sunday said it will launch a new software-defined-network solution this week called the Dell “Active Fabric manager” which provides management and operational control of a converged network.The solution has already been unveiled globally, and is awaiting its launch in Korea. The Active Fabric Manager from Dell is said to be an industry-innovating software tool that automates tasks associated with planning, designing, building and monitoring fabrics to help cut infrastructure operat
June 16, 2013
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‘Korea lags in entrepreneurship’
The spirit of entrepreneurship is an essential element for building Korea’s envisioned “creative economy,” but that element may be exactly what the nation lacks, experts said last Friday.“Being able to take risks, being okay with failing multiple times, and learning from each failure and mistake are essential ingredients of becoming a successful entrepreneur,” said Net Jacobsson, a former Facebook executive and entrepreneur, in an interview with The Korea Herald on the sidelines of the first ann
June 16, 2013
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Samsung unveils camera-smartphone hybrid for Galaxy line
Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday revealed the Galaxy S4 zoom, the latest model of its flagship Galaxy series, which is a cross between a camera and a smartphone.The unconventional gadget features a high-end smartphone while also embedding a quality camera, according to information Samsung released to the U.S. media. Up front, the Galaxy S4 Zoom looks like a smartphone, equipped with the Android 4.2 “Jelly Bean” operation system, a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED 960x540-pixel screen, a 1.5GHz dual-cor
June 14, 2013
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Diabetes and family history
Diabetes is not a single disease, but a group of heterogeneous diseases characterized by high blood glucose levels.There are various forms of diabetes, and the family history and its association differ for each type. Diabetes can generally be divided into types 1 and 2. Type 1 diabetes is caused by an absolute deficiency of insulin in the body, and requires insulin treatment. Type 2 diabetes has various causes, including insulin resistance, insulin secretory dysfunction, and increased gluconeoge
June 13, 2013
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Saving lives by market intervention
Market intervention to reduce drug prices is making a crucial contribution to defeating deadly diseases, a senior official from the World Health Organization said.UNITAID, a small organization based within the United Nations’ health arm, funds market intervention to incentivize pharmaceutical companies to produce new drugs at reduced prices for poor countries. “We don’t spend money to buy the products. We put this money into changing how the markets work so that markets work for the advantage of
June 13, 2013
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Bosch confident of continued success in electric vehicle era
BOXBERG, Germany ― For Bosch, it was like a divorce. “Bosch and Samsung SDI had different mid- and long-term strategic objectives. So we decided to divide the joint venture,” said Bernd Bohr, chairman of Bosch’s automotive group. Bosch is the world’s largest auto parts supplier in terms of sales. “The cell business goes to Samsung, while battery pack and management goes to Bosch. We are still in a kind of cooperation,” he added at a press conference here. Bosch realized Samsung had approached i
June 13, 2013
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Galaxy S4 can’t lose: market consensus
The Galaxy S4, the latest in line from the world’s largest smartphone maker Samsung Electronics, is at the center of a controversy over whether or not its sales will slow due to rumors and several unfavorable brokerage reports. But concerns of slowing sales seem to be far amiss from what is actually happening in markets all over the globe. Samsung’s Galaxy S4 has been selling briskly in markets all over except for Korea, where the Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy Note 2 are still going strong. In the U.
June 13, 2013
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Computer mouse delivers sensory info to users
South Korean researchers have developed a computer mouse that generates a sense of touch in cyberspace, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said on WednesdayThe Center for Mass and Related Quantities in the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has developed the world’s first computer mouse that delivers touch information to users.The device allows users to feel coldness and the choppiness of a river on the screen by touching the pad attached to the mouse when they move
June 13, 2013