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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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Medical reform committee kicks off despite boycott from doctors
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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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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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Over 9,000 hotline calls made by stalking victims in 2023
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[Hello India] Hyundai Motor vows to boost 'clean mobility' in India
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Monthly users on local streaming platforms outpace Netflix, Disney+
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US will take steps for three-way engagement on nuclear deterrence with S. Korea, Japan: Campbell
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Vaccinated mothers are safer for fetus: study
A large study concluded that it is safer for pregnant mothers to be vaccinated during pregnancy. According to the journal from scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, vaccination during pregnancy reduces the risk of fetal death by 25 percent. The study had a sample of 113,331 mothers who had been pregnant between spring 2009 and fall 2010, when the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic was in full swing. The study result shows that there were 492
Jan. 17, 2013
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A secret mobile phone for illicit lovers in Japan
An old-fashioned Japanese mobile phone has drawn lasting popularity, thanks to its strong and subtle privacy protection.The online edition of the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the old mobile phone model called “F Series,” produced by Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu, has been favored by male customers in Japan even after smartphones dominated the market.The phone features a special function called “privacy mode,” which allows users to thoroughly protect details of calls and messa
Jan. 17, 2013
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Age has no correlation with cancer treatment: study
The effectiveness of cancer treatment depends on the patient’s willingness to survive and physical condition rather than their age, a recent survey showed. Professor Lee Sang-hyub from Seoul National University Bundang Hospital conducted a study on 531 patients diagnosed with biliary tract cancer from 2003 to 2011. The average survival period for 205 patients over 65 and 326 patients under 65 was 15 months and 11 months, respectively. The study, published in Journal of the American Geriatrics So
Jan. 17, 2013
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N.K. confirmed behind JoongAng Ilbo hacking
North Korea is responsible for last year’s cyber attack on a Seoul newspaper that crippled its server and Web site, South Korean police said Wednesday.The National Police Agency (NPA) said the hacking method and Internet protocol (IP) addresses used for the attack on the JoongAng Ilbo, one of the country’s major conservative media outlets, were either similar or identical to those used by the North in previous attacks.A drawing of a white cat grinning and covering its mouth was posted on the Web
Jan. 16, 2013
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Transition team hints at revising campaign promises
The transition team of President-elect Park Geun-hye will look into whether her campaign pledges are “too comprehensive” or “overlap” with each other, a spokesman said, hinting at the possibility that the committee could attempt to revise promised projects.Questions have grown over whether Park will be able to implement all of the welfare and other expensive projects promised during her campaign amid concern that it will be difficult to raise the enormous amount of money necessary for them witho
Jan. 16, 2013
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Park to send special envoy to China next week
President-elect Park Geun-hye will send a delegation of special envoys to China next week to meet with China’s next leader Xi Jinping and other government officials, her spokesman said Wednesday.The delegation, led by Kim Moo-sung, a key official of Park’s presidential campaign last year, is scheduled to leave next Tuesday for a three-day visit that will include a courtesy call on Xi, spokesman Park Sun-kyoo told reporters at the presidential transition team’s office in Seoul.The other members o
Jan. 16, 2013
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Ex-Shinhan executives receive suspended terms for embezzlement
Two former executives of the Shinhan Financial Group Co. received suspended prison terms on Wednesday for embezzling a massive amount of company funds, according to court officials.The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Shin Sang-hoon, former president of the country’s No.4 banking group, to 18 months in prison, suspended for two years, for pocketing 261 million won ($246,458) of company money and illegally taking 200 million won worth of stocks from one of the group’s shareholders, they sai
Jan. 16, 2013
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KT’s smartphone music service launched globally
Genie, KT’s music service for smartphones, has been launched in 45 countries across six continents, the mobile carrier said earlier this week.The company said that the smartphone-only music service launched globally on Tuesday, giving anyone with an Android handset access to the latest K-pop songs.The 45 countries include the U.S., Australia, Germany, France, Russia, Denmark, Luxembourg, Spain, New Zealand, Mexico, India, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Brazil and Argentina.However, the serv
Jan. 16, 2013
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Mobility, social, cloud, big data keywords for 2013 IT industry
Key trends for the local and global IT industry this year are likely to be mobility, social, cloud and big data, a report projected Wednesday.Under such trends, multi-screen mobile platforms, business apps and the cloud computing business are among some sectors that are likely to gain traction in 2013, according to the report by the local unit of the Microsoft Corp.The report highlighted the growing importance of multi-screen devices, in which people interchange smartphones and PCs, and multiple
Jan. 16, 2013
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iPad mini to hit China this week
HONG KONG (Yonhap News) ― Apple Inc. will start selling the iPad mini in China this week in a bid to consolidate its dominance in China’s growing tablet PC market, company officials said Wednesday.The latest iPad will be released in China Friday, Apple officials said. The release comes one week after Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, made a visit to the world’s most populous country. He met government officials, business partners, Apple employees and customers during his visit, reports said. The release co
Jan. 16, 2013
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NHN may transform into holding firm: sources
Speculations are rising that NHN, the operator of Naver, may transform into a holding company as it is expected to newly establish a subsidiary taking control of its mobile businesses.The creation of a new company focusing on mobile-related projects will reportedly become the main topic of discussion during its board meeting next month.According to industry sources, the new organization, which will be set up as early as March, will be formed as a subsidiary of NHN. It is also projected to be mad
Jan. 16, 2013
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NHN, Kakao set for round two
NHN and Kakao are in full preparation mode to face off against each other, this time in content. The fight was ignited when Kakao began attracting a large user base with its mobile messenger service Kakao Talk.NHN, the operator of the country’s top portal Naver, has since then rolled out its own mobile messenger service called Line, attempting to outperform its rival.Although it has had no luck accomplishing that goal in Korea, Line’s global performance has been good, becoming the top mobile mes
Jan. 16, 2013
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DRAM prices soar 10% amid concern over short supply
Prices of dynamic random access memory chips have jumped more than 10 percent in recent weeks amid concern that the key parts for personal computers could be in short supply, data showed Wednesday.The fixed price of DDR3 2 Gigabit 256Mx8 1333MHz came to $0.92 in the first half of January, up 10.84 percent from $0.83 in the second half of December, according to the data by market researcher DRAMeXchange.The chip was priced at $4.34 when it was launched in September 2010. Its price plunged to a re
Jan. 16, 2013
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Mars rover readies first rock drilling
The Mars rover Curiosity will soon begin to drill into the Red Planet for the first time, mission officials said, ahead of the highly anticipated endeavor.Scientists behind the $2.5 billion mission also explained the nature of the small “Martian flower,” which had caused a lot of buzz online because it was strikingly different from the surrounding rock.Aileen Yingst, of the Planetary Science Institute, said that what could have passed as a flower was in fact a relatively large mineral grain or p
Jan. 16, 2013
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Online game ‘ArcheAge’ begins paid service
New online role-playing game “ArcheAge” launched its paid service at 8 a.m. Wednesday, after a two-week free trial period. XLGAMES, developer of the title, launched paid subscriptions for “ArcheAge” earlier last week. According to XLGAMES’s official website, fixed-rates that offer 30-days and 90-days of play time are 19,800 won ($18.74) and 47,500 won ($44.96), respectively. Alternately, players can choose a 30-hour subscription plan which costs 9,900 won ($9.37).XLGAMES has previously presented
Jan. 16, 2013
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Facebook posts more memorable than book quotes: study
A study has found that people are more able to remember Facebook posts from their friends than random book quotes or human faces. The study “Major memory for microblogs,” conducted by academics at the University of Warwick and UC San Diego, asked undergraduate students to read posts from their Facebook feeds. They were also given sentences from random books and human faces to memorize. The researchers then asked them to recall the online posts, book quotes and human faces.The result showed stud
Jan. 16, 2013
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New ‘flying’ frog discovered in Vietnam
An Australian biologist has described the discovery of a large green “flying” frog in Vietnam that uses its big webbed feet to glide through forests.Writing in the Journal of Herpetology, Jodi Rowley, an amphibian biologist at the Australian Museum in Sydney, told how she and other researchers “came across a huge green frog, sitting on a log,” not far from the capital, Ho Chi Minh City.She later determined the 3.5-inch creature is a relatively large new type of flying frog, a group known for its
Jan. 16, 2013
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Seoul to launch Naro space rocket between Jan. 30-Feb. 8
South Korea will launch its Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) between Jan. 30 and Feb. 8, a government committee said Wednesday.It will be the country's third attempt to send off the space rocket, also known as Naro, after its two earlier attempts in 2009 and 2010 ended in failures."After reviewing technical issues, the Launch Preparation Committee has decided to push for the third launch of Naro between Jan. 30 and Feb. 8 with the final launch date to be decided later, depending on weather
Jan. 16, 2013
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Japanese salmon bred with ‘surrogate’ fish
Japanese scientists say they‘ve successfully bred a type of salmon indigenous to the country through the use of surrogate parents of a different species.Researchers at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology reported they extracted spermatogonia, or primordial germ cells, from endangered yamame salmon, a Japanese species that lives the entirety of its life in rivers.The germ cells were implanted into sterile rainbow trout hatchlings, where the cells developed into fully functioning
Jan. 16, 2013
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Berries may reduce heart attack risk
Women who ate at least three servings of blueberries and strawberries per week had fewer heart attacks, U.S. and British researchers say. Senior author Eric Rimm of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston said blueberries and strawberries were used simply because they are the most eaten berries in the United States. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of East Anglia in England conducted a prospective study among 93,600 women ages 25-42, part of the Nurses‘
Jan. 15, 2013