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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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NewJeans' singles, Japanese debut to proceed as planned, despite Hybe-Ador feud
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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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Experts raise concerns about Japan putting pressure on Naver over Line
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Samsung mobile chief, Google device head meet in Seoul
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Ship linked to NK arms shipments to Russia is moored in China: State Dept.
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Users welcome Facebook’s new verified pages
As Facebook launched verified pages for celebrities starting from Wednesday, users welcomed the social network’s move.Facebook started to put a small blue circle with a white check mark to indicate that the page has been authenticated. The symbol is seemingly inspired by the icon used by Twitter. Pages of high-profile figures like Barak Obama that have already gone through the verification process have the blue icon right next to their names.Facebook users welcomed the company’s new measure that
May 31, 2013
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Russians find mammoth carcass with liquid blood
A perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood has been found on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal, Russian scientists said Thursday.The carcass was in such good shape because its lower part was stuck in pure ice, said Semyon Grigoryev, the head of the Mammoth Museum, who led the expedition into the Lyakhovsky Islands off the Siberian coast.“The blood is very dark, it was found in ice cavities bellow the belly and when we broke these cavities wit
May 31, 2013
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Radiation on trip to Mars near lifetime limit
Astronauts who travel on future missions to Mars would likely be exposed to their lifetime limit of radiation during the trip, not to mention time spent on the Red Planet, scientists said Thursday.The measurements were made aboard the Mars Science Laboratory, an unmanned NASA rover and mobile lab that set off for Mars in 2011 before landing 253 days later in August 2012, said the report in the US journal Science."In terms of accumulated dose, it's like getting a whole-body CT scan once every fiv
May 31, 2013
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Publishers accuse Kyobo Book Center of unfair practices
Kyobo Book Center, the nation’s largest bookstore, has come under fire for allegedly forcing publishing companies to participate in its newly launched e-book service.The Korea Publishers Society, a body representing some 420 publishers, accused the bookseller of unfair business practices by abusing its superior position. It also claimed that some publishers were forced to buy the e-book reader released by Kyobo. “We have received complaints from publishing houses that Kyobo Book Center did not g
May 30, 2013
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U.S. vs. European hurricane model: Which is better?
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) ― When forecasters from the National Weather Service track a hurricane, they use models from several different supercomputers located around the world to create their predictions.Some of those models are more accurate than others. During Hurricane Sandy last October, for instance, the model from the European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasting in the United Kingdom predicted eight days before landfall that the large storm would hit the East Coast, while the A
May 30, 2013
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Study reveals man’s rocky road to upright walking
PARIS (AFP) ― The rugged landscape created by volcanic eruptions and tectonic plate shifts in east and south Africa millions of years ago may be what prompted our human ancestors to start walking on two legs, a study said.The research published in the journal Antiquity challenges the commonly-held theory that early hominins (members of the broad human family) were forced onto two feet on the ground because climate change reduced the number of trees they lived in.According to the new hypothesis,
May 30, 2013
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Moon may harbor alien minerals: study
PARIS (AFP) ― Minerals found in craters on the Moon may be remnants of asteroids that slammed into it and not, as long believed, the satellite’s innards exposed by such impacts, a study said Sunday.The findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, cast doubt on the little we knew of what the Moon is actually composed of.It had long been thought that meteoroids vaporize on impact with large celestial bodies.Unusual minerals like spinel and olivine found in many lunar craters, but rarely o
May 30, 2013
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Smoking causes 56% of lung cancers: study
Smoking causes nearly 56 percent of lung cancer in men, a medical team in Seoul said in its report on Thursday.The study which observed about 14,600 males in Seoul for the last 16 years also revealed that smoking increased the risk of lung cancer by fourfold in comparison to those who didn’t smoke at all.Based on the percentage of male smokers in the Korean population, which is 41 percent, the team estimated that smoking may have caused 55.6 percent of lung cancer cases in men. “These results hi
May 30, 2013
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Living with Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. The motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease result from the death of dopamine-generating cells in the substantia nigra, a region of the midbrain.Early in the course of the disease, the most obvious symptoms are movement-related; these include shaking, rigidity and slowness of movement. It starts slowly and progresses gradually. Therefore, it is difficult to know the exact onset of the disease. Here, we will look at the e
May 30, 2013
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KT strives to spur IT ‘eco-system’
As the nation’s top telecommunications firm, KT Corp. has a few guidelines in place for helping out its vendors and, in general, creating a market of fair competition: Engage in fair transactions with its vendors, help build up their competitiveness, help them break into new territory and last but not least, promote forward-looking mutual growth. And underlying of these is the unwavering corporate philosophy laid out by the top KT management that Korea should seek to build an IT society that “ev
May 30, 2013
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‘Happy chemical’ may affect sexual preference: study
A lack of serotonin, a chemical substance known to affect a person’s mood, may affect sexual preference in mice, a new study by Chinese scholars suggested.Yi Rao of Peking University in Beijing and his colleagues conducted a study where they genetically engineered female mice so that they could not make or respond to serotonin. The researchers found that the mutated mice preferred female genital odor over that of male and generally preferred females over males as their mating partners.“We demons
May 30, 2013
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Leaked image of Windows 8.1 reveals ‘Start‘ button
A leaked image of Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 is circulating on the Internet, suggesting that a start button might be included in the new minor upgrade version. Some of the leaked screenshots of Windows 8.1’s home screen have been posted on The Verge, an online tech news site on Wednesday. According to The Verge, Windows 8.1 is expected to feature a “Start“ button in an unadorned form of a Windows 8 logo on the left bottom side of the home screen, as it had been adopted on the previous versions of W
May 30, 2013
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Hynix won’t supply chips to Samsung
SK Hynix Semiconductor, the world’s No. 2 chipmaker, will not supply mobile dynamic random access memory chips to Samsung Electronics, mostly due to a supply incapacity from the smaller player.“The June plans seem to have fallen through because SK Hynix’s supplies can’t meet Samsung’s demands,” said one industry watcher on Wednesday, speaking anonymously.He added that margins also played a role, noting that there was no reason for the smaller chipmaker to try and sell mobile DRAM chips when PC D
May 29, 2013
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Samsung to cut Qualcomm reliance
Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest smartphone maker, appears to be dramatically reducing its reliance on top U.S.-based telecommunications chipmaker Qualcomm, with the latter unlikely to secure a bigger contract when an existing deal expires later this year, industry sources said on Wednesday. Samsung currently supplies Qualcomm with 5,000 logic chip wafers each month, which was only half of the 10,000 wafers that the U.S. company had hoped to receive. The wafers are an essential telecommu
May 29, 2013
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Samsung Electronics explores new design
The management team from Samsung Electronics Co. held a strategy meeting focused on design on Wednesday. At Samsung Electronics headquarters in Seocho-gu, Seoul, the whole entourage of executives, including top managers Yoon Boo-keun and Shin Jong-kyun, joined the meeting to discuss the company‘s plans for their new design.“During the conference, new ideas on current design trend in the electronics market and strategies were exchanged,” Yoon said. “Everyone at the meeting agreed that consumers s
May 29, 2013
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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 to adopt high-powered camera
Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to put out the Galaxy Note 3 with an upgraded camera later this year.The sequel to the company’s flagship “phablet” Galaxy Note will likely feature a 13-megapixel camera as well as some of the most versatile picture-taking capabilities found on a smartphone, local media reported citing Samsung sources. The camera will be powered by 3x optical zoom, better shutter speeds and optical image stabilization technology.Such technologies are speculated to put Samsung’
May 29, 2013
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Samsung investigating ‘Galaxy S3 explosion’ case
Samsung Electronics Co. announced Tuesday it is investigating a Galaxy S3 user’s claim that his phone had exploded.“We have picked up the device in question and launched an investigation. The details (of the investigation) will be revealed as soon as we have the results,” the South Korea-based tech firm said in an official statement. The company added that it is taking the issue “seriously.”An unidentified person on Monday wrote a post on social news website Reddit that his Galaxy S3 smartphone
May 29, 2013
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SK C&C data center receives high mark
SK C&C, the nation’s leading IT service provider, on Tuesday said its Daedeok Data Center received an A+, the second-highest mark for being an energy-efficient and eco-friendly facility for housing computer systems and related components.The recognition was granted by the Korea Technology Service Industry Association, which held the first Green Data Center ceremony at Palace Hotel. “It’s been 12 years since we built this facility, and now our Daedeok Data Cater has become a role model for other
May 28, 2013
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“League of Legends” popularity dips over server glitches
“League of Legends,” the undisputed king in South Korea’s gaming industry, was dealt a major blow after a series of server problems in the past few days.According to game data provider Gametrics, the “League of Legends” Internet cafe share was 21.3 percent last week, a 15 percent drop from the week before.The game, however, retained a comfortable lead over its rivals. Runner-up “Sudden Attack,” for instance, had a 10 percent share.The Internet cafe share refers to the percentage of a certain gam
May 28, 2013
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‘Samsung may showcase new Galaxy, ATIV devices in June’
Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday that it would hold an event called “Samsung Premiere 2013 Galaxy & ATIV” next month in London, prompting speculation that the tech heavyweight may introduce new products for its Galaxy and ATIV lines.The South Korea-based firm did not reveal the specifics in the invitation but tech journalists are suspecting that the name of the event indicates new gadgets for the Android-based Galaxy line and Windows-based ATIV line will be headlining the event.As Samsung ann
May 28, 2013