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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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Worried Sick
There is an expression “worried sick.” Although it is just a saying for most people, for others it is quite real. Those who worry about having a major illness regardless of being healthy, those who worry about dying any minute from sudden anxiety, those who don’t appear in front of the public in case they make mistakes, and those who continuously worry about everything that happens in their daily lives, can all suffer from anxiety along with somatization that cannot be explained by physical fact
Jan. 31, 2013
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More than 40,000 TB patients found last year
Korea had more than 40,000 patients with tuberculosis last year, the highest number counted by the state-run disease control agency since 2001, officials said.According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40,126 tuberculosis patients were newly discovered in 2012, which accounted for 43 percent of patients with infectious diseases in the same year. Patients suffering from varicella were the second-largest group with 21,770, followed by patients with trombiculiasis and epidem
Jan. 31, 2013
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Free monthly lectures to look at mental health
A series of lectures to inform the public about mental health issues will take place in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province.The lectures, which are free and open to all, will be given by Park Han-son, a neuropsychiatrist at St. Andrew’s Neuropsychiatric Hospital. They will take place in the hospital’s main auditorium at 2 p.m. on the third or fourth Sunday of each month.“Mental health problems are one of the main public health issues in Korea,” said Park. “However, the stigma about mental illness has been
Jan. 31, 2013
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iPhone owners pay biggest monthly bills
iPhone owners pay more per month -- more than $100 for calls, texts and data -- than users of other smartphone platforms, a U.S. research firm says.Consumer Intelligence Research Partners said their analysis found 59 percent of iPhone users have monthly bills of more than $100, with 10 percent paying even more than that, approaching $200 a month.A little over a third of iPhone users pay $51 to $100, the firm said.In comparison, 53 percent of Android phone users pay more than $100, while less tha
Jan. 31, 2013
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No comparison between space programs of two Koreas: U.S. gov't
The U.S. government made clear Thursday that it makes no sense to compare the rocket launches of the two Koreas."You know our view that there is no basis for comparing the behavior of the ROK in space with the behavior of the DPRK," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said at a press briefing. She was using the acronym of the formal names of the Koreas -- the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.Earlier in the day, South Korea succeeded in its third attempt to
Jan. 31, 2013
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S. Korea's new satellite makes contact with ground station
South Korea's new science satellite successfully made contact with a ground station here Thursday, marking a complete success in the country's launch of its first-ever space rocket on the previous day, officials said.The first communication contact was made at 3:27:12 a.m., according to officials from the country's Satellite Technology Research Center at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, 160 kilometers south of Seoul.The contact came after the Korea Space Launch
Jan. 31, 2013
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Korea makes contact with newly launched satellite
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute announced that it has made contact with the country’s new scientific satellite, completing a mission to send a satellite into orbit for the first time from its own soil.The satellite first communication contact was made at 3:27:12 a.m., according to officials from the country‘s Satellite Technology Research Center at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, 160 kilometers south of Seoul.Korea on Wednesday successfully launched its
Jan. 30, 2013
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What’s next after Naro?
Korea plans to develop a three-stage indigenous space rocket, the KSLV-2, by 2020. Before that, it aims to develop a 75-ton thrust engine by 2018. Kim Seung-jo, president of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, said earlier that the country should look to a private space firm called SpaceX for its future space model. The California-based firm’s two-stage rocket uses the Merlin engine, which provides a 66-ton thrust using liquid oxygen and kerosene. The first stage has nine Merlin engines clus
Jan. 30, 2013
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Korea takes crucial step toward space era
With the successful launch of the Naro rocket on Wednesday, Korea made a major stride in its decade-old bid to gain entry into the elite club of players in space technology and the lucrative space services market.The 33.5-meter, 140-ton Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 blasted off from the Naro Space Center on the south coast, putting the nation’s 15th satellite into orbit. Korea became the 11th nation to have successfully sent a domestic satellite from its own soil.The achievement marks a momentous
Jan. 30, 2013
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U.S. looks to futuristic guns for safety
NEW YORK (AP) ― It sounds, at first, like a bold, next-generation solution: personalizing guns with technology that keeps them from firing if they ever get into the wrong hands.But when the White House called for pushing ahead with such new technology as part of President Obama’s plan to cut gun violence, the administration did not mention the concept’s embattled past. As with so much else in the nation’s long-running divisions over gun rights and regulation, what sounds like a futuristic vision
Jan. 30, 2013
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Samsung to top Apple in smartphone market in 2013
South Korea-based tech behemoth Samsung Electronics Co. will likely see its share of the world smartphone market far outpace that of iPhone maker Apple Inc. this year with new Galaxy devices set to hit the market, data showed Wednesday.Samsung is expected to ship 320.4 million units of smartphones worldwide in 2013, compared with an estimated 159 million units of the iPhone shipped by Apple, according to the data by market researcher Strategy Analytics.LG Electronics Inc. of South Korea comes ne
Jan. 30, 2013
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Four key IT technologies that will shape the future
Cloud computing, business analytics, mobile, social business. There is no mystery why we are hearing so much about these technologies. They are completely reshaping how business gets done and rewriting strategic playbooks across industries. In these spaces, new business possibilities are emerging and some companies are equipped to innovate at the forefront of these fast-moving technology trends and drive strategic advantages for their organizations.In fact, CEOs say that during the next three to
Jan. 30, 2013
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Major telecoms offer unlimited data plans for LTE smartphones
The monthly unlimited data schemes for handsets running on the fourth-generation Long Term Evolution networks have been the talk of town since their debut last week.LG Uplus, the smallest of the nation’s three mobile carriers, was the first to announce the new unlimited data usage plan for LTE smartphone owners, with the plan starting from 95,000 won.The move was immediately followed by KT on the same day, featuring a similar monthly usage scheme.However, it took longer for industry leader SK Te
Jan. 30, 2013
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How to fend off sexual harassers on buses, subways (2)
1. A harasser approaches a woman from the front as shown in Picture 1, leaving very little or no personal space.There are two ways of getting out of this tight situation. One is the silent approach without drawing attention from nearby people, and the other is to aggressively stand against the opponent causing commotion.Here is how to actively fend off harassers on public transport.2. Take a step away from the opponent. Bend both arms to bring both hands toward your chest and block the opponent
Jan. 30, 2013
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New hair transplant device developed to improve success rate
The number of people in Korea suffering from hair loss has now reached 10 million. Recently, it’s not only because of genetic reasons, but also due to environmental factors such as excessive stress, drinking, smoking and irregular eating habits.A growing number of hair loss patients are in their 20s and 30s, and most of them have difficulties in their social life.The most common way to prevent or treat hair loss is by taking drugs such as finasteride and minoxidil. But patients with genetic caus
Jan. 30, 2013
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Entrepreneur finds an opportunity in home care for elderly Asians
PHILADELPHIA ― It’s hard for anyone to care for an ailing, aging family member, but Choi Im-ja faced extra challenges when her mother’s stomach cancer was diagnosed in 2002.Choi’s mother, who had come to the United States from Korea in 1978 to help raise Choi’s children, had never learned to speak English or enjoy American food. Choi thought she would be miserable in a nursing home.But her mother weighed 62 pounds and had a colostomy bag when she got out of the hospital. Choi and her husband bot
Jan. 30, 2013
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LG plans to roll out new flagship smartphone by March
LG Electronics will roll out a new flagship smartphone dubbed “Optimus G Pro” in Korea by March, according to its chief financial officer Jeong Do-hyun on Wednesday.Following its quarterly earnings conference at its headquarters in Yeouido, Jeong said that the new 5.5-inch flagship smartphone will be released in the local market by the first quarter and then to the overseas market in the second quarter.Another LG executive also stated during the earnings conference that the new G series smartpho
Jan. 30, 2013
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Chronology of major events leading to Seoul's 3rd space rocket launch
The following is a chronology of major events related to South Korea's development of the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, which is set to blast off from the country's Naro Space Center later Wednesday. March 2001 - South Korea joins the Missile Technology Control Regime, an informal international association that oversees the proliferation of unmanned delivery systems capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction. August 2002 - South Korea and Russia confirm plans to develop the Korea Spac
Jan. 30, 2013
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Timing of meal affects weight loss: study
A new study shows that meal timing seems to affect weight loss, suggesting that when people eat matters as much as what they eat. A research team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and the University of Murcia studied the relationship between meal times and weight loss among 420 participants for 20 weeks. The first group of people was told to eat before 3 p.m. while the latter group ate after 3. The study suggested that early eaters lost more weight than late eaters and did so more quic
Jan. 30, 2013
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Subglacial Lake suggests life deep under Antarctic
The successful drilling of subglacial Lake Whillans suggests that microorganisms may have been living under the Antarctic ice sheet for thousands of years, U.S. broadcaster NBC News reported. Funded by U.S. National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs, members of the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project drilled into the 800-meter-deep lake, retrieved water and sediment samples and analyzed them. The analysis of experiments showed that microorganisms may exist
Jan. 30, 2013