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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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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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SNU profs to suspend treatment for one day
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Hybe's multilabel system tested amid conflict with Ador
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SK hynix pledges W20tr to ramp up DRAM production at home
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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Ministry denies blame for Jamboree debacle
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Pianist Cho Seong-Jin named Berlin Philharmonic's artist-in-residence
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Samsung tablet market share doubles in Q3
Samsung Electronics Co. saw its market share in the tablet PC market nearly double in the third quarter from three months earlier as it moved to catch up with rival Apple Inc., data showed Sunday. The South Korean tech giant's global market share reached 18.1 percent in the July-September period, compared with 9.2 percent in the previous quarter, according to the data by research firm Strategy Analytics. Meanwhile, Apple's market share fell to 52.9 percent from 68.4 percent, narrowing the
Dec. 16, 2012
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LG defeats Alcatel-Lucent patent claims
Apple Inc. and LG Electronics Inc. did not infringe an Alcatel-Lucent SA unit’s patents for electronic devices including phones and computers, a jury said.The verdict Thursday came after a trial that began Nov. 27 in federal court in San Diego over a 2010 lawsuit by the Paris- based company’s Multimedia Patent Trust accusing Apple and LG Electronics of copying video-compression technology that allows data to be sent more efficiently over communications media, including the Internet and satellite
Dec. 14, 2012
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Distant ‘binge-eating’ black hole observed
The X-ray jet streaming from a binge-eating black hole in the nearby galaxy of Andromeda has been detected, U.S. and European astronomers say.Classified as an ultraluminous X-ray source or ULX, the object is only the second ever seen in Andromeda, also known as M31, and was the target of an intense observing campaign by orbiting X-ray telescopes and radio observatories on the ground, NASA reported Wednesday.Astronomers say they believe a ULX is a binary system containing a black hole that is rap
Dec. 14, 2012
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Samsung said working on larger Galaxy Note
Just when it seemed smartphone displays couldn‘t get any bigger, tech watchers report South Korea’s Samsung is working on a Galaxy Note with a 6.3-inch screen.As the lines between a phone and tablet blur even further, the Korea Times has said Samsung is working on a Galaxy Note 3 with a screen almost an inch larger that the Note 2‘s 5.5-inch display.The first Galaxy Note, mocked by many as a “phablet” for its 5.3-inch screen, saw decent sales, and the incrementally larger Note 2 was an even bigg
Dec. 14, 2012
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Risk of vitamin D deficiency grows in older people
Koreans are at a growing risk of vitamin D deficiency due to increased hours spent indoors, a report showed Thursday.According to a report by the state-run Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, the number of patients suffering from diseases caused by vitamin D deficiency surged more than eightfold from 1,008 in 2007 to 10,006 in 2011. Medical costs to treat related diseases also jumped nearly 6.5 times. The report showed that the proportion of patients the aging population has surged i
Dec. 13, 2012
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Healthy bathing in winter
With the start of the winter season, increasing numbers of people are complaining of itchy and dry skin. The itchiness and dryness of skin in winter is associated with the cold weather. In countries such as Korea, where there are continental climates and continued dry weather, such skin conditions are quite common. It is more common in those aged 40 years and over, with the symptoms most prominent in the outer surfaces of the arms and the legs. The dry and itchy symptoms can progress to dry ecze
Dec. 13, 2012
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KT chairman Lee joins GSMA board
KT announced Thursday that its chairman Lee Suk-chae would join the 2013-2014 GSMA Board, an association of international mobile operator firms. Scheduled to serve on the 25-member board for two years, Lee plans to strengthen communications among the CEOs of global mobile telecommunications companies and play an active role in the board’s decision making, KT said. South Korean members of the current 2011-2012 GSMA Board include KT president Pyo Hyun-myung and SK Telecom president Ha Sung-min. Ha
Dec. 13, 2012
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More 50-60s use smart device than ever
The number of smart device users in their 50s and 60s rapidly increased in 2012 from last year, data showed Thursday.According to research by the Korea Communications Commission and the Korea Internet Security Agency conducted between July 1 and Sept. 15 on some 73,000 participants, the number of owners of smart devices in their 50s increased nearly fivefold in just one year, from 9.5 percent in 2011 to 46.8 percent in 2012. Smart-device users in their 60s steeply increased over the same period
Dec. 13, 2012
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Female Atlantic mollies find flirty males more attractive: study
Flirting helps in the fish world, even if it is with another fish of the same sex, a new study by German scientists indicated.Researchers from the University of Frankfurt found some male Poecilia Mexicana -- a tropical fish otherwise known as Atlantic Molly -- are able to attract female partners by demonstrating homosexual tendencies.According to the findings they published in the journal Royal Society Biology Letters, the female tropical fishes evaluate a potential partner’s virility by his ten
Dec. 13, 2012
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Russian mobile phone to offer two screens
A Russian company says it is launching a smartphone with two screens, an LCD color display and a monochrome e-ink display, both 4.3 inches in size.The company, Yota Devices, says the YotaPhone offers two screens that can be used for different functions and purposes, Slash Gear reported Wednesday.Phone users can use the LCS screen for normal phone functions and apps as well as watching videos or playing games, then flip the phone over to the e-ink screen to turn the phone into an e-reader for boo
Dec. 13, 2012
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KT may bid to take over Moroccan mobile carrier
Korean mobile carrier KT is considering taking part in bidding for Moroccan mobile carrier Maroc Telecom, according to news reports on Tuesday. Reuters reported that KT may jump into bidding for the 53-percent stake in Maroc Telecom currently held by French conglomerate Vivendi. Citing two people familiar with the situation, the agency reported that the seller, Vivendi, hopes to make about $7.15 billion. But KT officials neither confirmed nor denied the news. “They (decision makers) said ‘no com
Dec. 12, 2012
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Koreans lead mobile TV trend: report
Before the advent of TV delivered by Internet broadband, old-fashioned, a-la-carte television was king. In those days, viewers could only choose from limited content, in a limited time and space, on a limited device. But beyond the TVs sitting in living rooms and bedrooms, people now have access to TV content through desktop computers and laptops and even smart devices, such as smartphones and tablet PCs.According to ConsumerLab’s annual research in 2012 on TV consumption that was compiled by Er
Dec. 12, 2012
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Korean mobile carriers launch LTE data sharing service
South Korean mobile carriers KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. said Wednesday they plan to introduce a service that enables long-term evolution data sharing among multiple mobile devices, as a growing number of people own more than one mobile gadget. “The number of mobile gadgets owned by an individual is increasing as people are using them for different functions. The LTE data sharing plan will increase customer satisfaction since they can share LTE data among various devices,” a KT official said in
Dec. 12, 2012
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Is Samsung’s heir-apparent close to succession?
Samsung heir-apparent Lee Jay-yong has been the man of the hour in the nation’s business circles since he was appointed vice chairman of Samsung Electronics last Wednesday.Although the Lee’s promotion was widely predicted as he is the only son of Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee, the timing took observers by surprise as the country is getting ready for the Dec. 19 presidential election.Korean businesses have tended to stay low key during the election period, especially since candidates f
Dec. 12, 2012
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Asteroid came close to the Earth
An asteroid approached the Earth closely on Dec. 11. If it crashed into the Earth, it could have destroyed an area more than three times the size of Seoul, experts say.The 36-meter-wide asteroid named “2012 XE54” passed just 230,000 kilometers from Earth -- 156,000 kilometers closer than the moon. An asteroid of a similar size hit Siberia in 1908 and flattened 2,000 square kilometers.As the cycle of the asteroid “2012 XE54” is 2.72 years, scientists said it would be back, once more close to the
Dec. 12, 2012
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S. Korean mobile carriers launch LTE data sharing service
South Korean mobile carriers KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. said Wednesday they plan to introduce a service that enables long-term evolution (LTE) data sharing among multiple mobile devices, as a growing number of people own more than one mobile gadget."The number of mobile gadgets owned by an individual is increasing as people are using them for different functions. The LTE data sharing plan will increase customer satisfaction since they can share LTE data among various devices," a KT official sai
Dec. 12, 2012
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Biologic link to being gay or lesbian
Epigenetics -- how gene expression is regulated by temporary switches called epi-marks -- appears to be critical in determining sexuality, U.S. researchers say.Study co-author Sergey Gavrilets of the Working Group on Intragenomic Conflict at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and a professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and colleagues said the study solved the evolutionary riddle of homosexuality. The finding that “sexually antagonistic” epi-marks, which
Dec. 12, 2012
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Image of 'hobbit' human created
An Australian anthropologist has created what she says is an evidence-based image of the tiny "hobbit" species known as Homo floresiensis.With a background in forensic science, Susan Hayes was able to flesh out the face of a 3-foot tall, 30-year-old female based on remains uncovered in the Liang Bua cave on the remote Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.Homo floresiensis, nicknamed hobbits because of their diminutive size, lived on the Indonesian island of F
Dec. 12, 2012
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Smartphones to see through walls?
Smartphones may soon have the capability of seeing through walls courtesy of a tiny, low-cost imaging chip, U.S. researchers say.Two electrical engineers at the California Institute of Technology have invented tiny inexpensive silicon microchips that generate and radiate high-frequency electromagnetic waves, called terahertz waves.These waves are in a largely unused region of the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and far-infrared radiation and can penetrate a host of materials without
Dec. 12, 2012
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Study: Renewable energy can meet demand
Renewable energy has the potential to power a large electric grid fully 99.9 percent of the time economically by 2030, U.S. researchers say.A study by the University of Delaware and Delaware Technical Community College suggest a well-designed combination of wind power, solar power and storage in batteries and fuel cells would nearly always exceed electricity demand at costs comparable to today‘s electricity expenses, a university release reported Monday.“These results break the conventional wisd
Dec. 12, 2012