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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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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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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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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Mobile carriers battle for edge in iPhone 5 sales
The launch of the iPhone5 on Dec. 7 has sparked a war between mobile carriers KT and SK Telecom, over hegemony in Korea’s Long Term Evolution market. Securing the largest client base is the first priority, the telecommunication firms said, to win a larger share of the smartphone market since the nation introduced LTE. Although reservations for the iPhone5 began before the official launch, not all applicants stuck to their original orders, a KT official said. The first-week iPhone sales will prov
Dec. 11, 2012
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SKT, KEB open first ‘smart’ branch
In cooperation with mobile carrier SK Telecom, Korea Exchange Bank opened its first “smart bank” branch at Seoul Square in Namdaemun, Seoul, on Tuesday.The paperless bank uses an electronic documentation system, multi-financial service machine and video counseling with bank clerks, SK Telecom said. Dubbed the “Q’Plex Seoul Square Branch,” the bank’s “Smart Branch Device” is a banking machine equipped with the latest information and communication technologies, with which customers can process som
Dec. 11, 2012
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iSolated: Bad Apple Maps directions lead to desert
The city of Mildura is not at the end of a dirt road in the Australian bush, in tire-choking desert sand far from food and water. Unfortunately, Apple‘s much-maligned mapping application thinks it is.More than two months after Apple’s CEO apologized for errors in its Maps service, Australian police say the app is ``potentially life threatening‘’ because of the bad directions it has given to the southern city. On Tuesday, a police official said Apple had ``sort of half-fixed‘’ the problem.Victori
Dec. 11, 2012
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Scientists to probe lake hidden under ice
British scientists say they are almost ready to begin an attempt to reach and analyze the water of an Antarctic lake buried under 2 miles of ice.The cold waters of Lake Ellsworth -- 9 miles long, nearly 2 miles wide and 525 feet deep -- have remained in the dark for up to half a million years, they said.Scientists say they hope a study of the ice-covered lake will help them understand the limits of where life is possible.Despite the high pressure of the lake‘s water and the absolute absence of s
Dec. 11, 2012
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Motorola to pull out of Korea
Motorola Mobility announced Monday that it would withdraw most of its operations in Korea next year, in line with its global reorganization program.The Korean unit of the mobile handset maker said it was part of the restructuring that has been conducted by its U.S. headquarters.Company officials said Motorola was realigning research and development organizations globally to focus its strength on markets where it can compete most effectively.The company added that it would retain two business uni
Dec. 10, 2012
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‘Apple created Samsung nightmare’
Apple may have turned Samsung into Frankenstein’s monster by entrusting it with the supply of iPhone components, a former employee of Apple’s strategy unit contended in a blog posting on Dec. 7. James Allworth, present fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School, said that Apple’s expensive, risky patent war against the South Korean handset maker was not the solution to end the dispute. Allworth wrote in his Asymco posting, “The problem that Apple is facing right now
Dec. 10, 2012
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Chocolate, it's all about the guilt
The very guilt associated with indulging in forbidden foods such as chocolate can, in fact, enhance women's enjoyment of them, U.S. researchers say. Lead researcher Kelly Goldsmith of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago said the study findings show "experiencing the emotion of guilt can increase pleasure," Time magazine reported In one of the study's experiments, 103 participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups. In the group primed to feel more guil
Dec. 10, 2012
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Orange vegetables may reduce breast cancer
U.S. researchers found women with the highest levels of carotenoids -- found in produce -- in their blood had the lowest risk of breast cancer. A. Heather Eliassen of the Channing Division of Network Medicine, the Department of Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and colleagues, conducted an analysis of eight studies involving 80 percent of the world's published prospective data on plasma or serum carotenoids and breast cancer.The study, published in the Journal of
Dec. 10, 2012
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Fittest students get higher grades
Middle school students in the best physical shape do better than their less fit classmates on standardized tests and report cards, U.S. researchers say.Lead researcher Dawn Coe, an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville who conducted the research as a doctoral student in Michigan State University‘s kinesiology department, said the study was among the first to examine how academic performance relates to all aspects of physical fitness -- including body fat, muscular stren
Dec. 10, 2012
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Apple Maps glitch could be deadly: Australian police
Australian police Monday warned motorists about using the map system on new Apple iPhones after rescuing several people left stranded in the wilderness, saying the errors could prove deadly.Victoria state police said drivers were sent “off the beaten track” in recent weeks while attempting to get to the inland town of Mildura, being directed instead to the middle of a national park.“Police are extremely concerned as there is no water supply within the park and temperatures can reach as high as 4
Dec. 10, 2012
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Parasite has links to self-harm
A parasite dubbed the “cat parasite” leads to self-harming behaviors such as suicide, according to Swedish researchers. However, the discovery shouldn’t raise concern as humans have been infected with it for a long time.In a study, the team first infected human dendritic cells with toxoplasma, and observed the infected ones secreting the signal substance, GABA (gamma-Aminobutyric acid). In the following experiment conducted on live mice, it found that the infected dendritic cells spread through
Dec. 10, 2012
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Firm hopes to sell $1.5b trips to the moon
Attention wealthy nations and billionaires: A team of former NASA executives will fly you to the moon in an out-of-this-world commercial venture combining the wizardry of Apollo and the marketing of Apple.For a mere $1.5 billion, the business is offering countries the chance to send two people to the moon and back, either for research or national prestige. And if you are an individual with that kind of money to spare, you too can go the moon for a couple days.Some space experts, though, are skep
Dec. 9, 2012
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Korean scientists find ways to repair DNA damage
Korean scientists have discovered a way to restore DNA in human cells damaged by ultraviolet radiation from the sun, chemical and toxic agents, and smoking that can potentially lead to aging and cancer.A team led by professor Kang Tae-hong of Dong-A University Department of Biological Science said nucleotide excision repair, or NER, holds the key through the modulation of enzymes to prevent diseases such as skin cancer, developmental disorder and progeria.NER has been widely known to play a vita
Dec. 9, 2012
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Parents may live longer than childless
A study involving Danish couples found a correlation between childless couples dying earlier than couples with children, researchers said. Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark studied more than 21,000 couples having in vitro fertilization treatment between 1994 and 2005 -- while 15,210 children were born, 1,564 were adopted, the Daily Telegraph reported. During the study period, 96 women and 200 men died. The study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, found the
Dec. 9, 2012
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Study: The perfect lie may be possible
U.S. researchers say with a certain amount of training and instruction a person could learn to tell a lie that may be indistinguishable from the truth.The study at Northwestern University, which suggests the art of deception can be perfected, has implications for law enforcement and the administering of lie detector tests, a university release said Thursday.Previous researchers has shown most people take longer to respond and make more mistakes when telling lies than telling the truth because th
Dec. 7, 2012
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Russian iTunes users get XXX content
Russian iTunes users got more than they bargained for when XXX-rated content showed up in their movie section, Wired.com says.When iTunes was launched in Russia, users who went to the “more films in different languages” section to download mainstream movie fare, they instead found content from porn sites, escort services and purveyors of sex toys, the online tech website reported Wednesday.Wired.com said the folks at iPhones.ru thought iTunes‘ tech staff may have put some temporary xx.xx.xx plac
Dec. 7, 2012
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iPhone 5 hits S. Korea
Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5 made its belated debut in South Korea on Friday with avid fans welcoming the latest iPhone amid the U.S. smartphone maker's ongoing patent battle with homegrown player Samsung Electronics Co.SK Telcom Co. and KT Corp., the country's two biggest mobile carriers, kicked off the release of the first iPhone that runs on the fourth-generation long-term evolution (LTE) network after beginning pre-orders a week earlier.While Apple rolled out the latest iPhone on its home turf in e
Dec. 7, 2012
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Influenza
In 2009, there was a worldwide pandemic of influenza. The pathogenic virus is still prevalent and is becoming a common cause of influenza. Influenza caused the deaths of approximately 20 million people worldwide between 1918 and 1919. This was the “Spanish Flu” and the large number of deaths increased the awareness of the disease. Since then, there have been similar pandemics every 10 to 40 years. The pandemic in 2009 followed the “Hong Kong Flu” in 1958 by approximately 40 years.The influenza v
Dec. 6, 2012
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Dealing with itchy skin
Cho Min-shik, 62, wakes up at midnight scratching his legs and arms. “It’s quite unpleasant and somehow stressful when the feeling of itchiness wakes you up in the middle of night,” he said. Cho has been in a clinical program to treat constant itchy skin for the last two years. But as the weather gets dry in the winter, he feels the treatment doesn’t work at all. Taking extra care with his skin, applying ceramide-added moisturizers as much as possible and taking other medication is all he can do
Dec. 6, 2012
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LG smartphone sales top 3m on home turf
South Korean handset maker LG Electronics Inc. has sold more than 3 million smartphones in the local market, bolstering the company’s drive to escape its smartphone laggard status, a company official said Thursday.LG Electronics saw its domestic smartphone shipments top 3-million units in the first 10 months of the year, breaking the milestone for the first time, according to an LG Electronics official. While end-November figures were unavailable, the company is expected to sell a total of 3.5 m
Dec. 6, 2012