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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Korea eyes Mideast, E. Europe for hallyu sales
The Middle East and Eastern Europe are the next strategic long-term markets for Korean cultural content, the Korea Communications Commission said Wednesday. Through its sub-organization Korea Internet Security Agency, the KCC spends about 800 million won ($730,000) every year to showcase Korean TV content, which has been one most popular types of Korean cultural product overseas. Sponsored by the KCC, a group of KISA officials held four one-day showcases each in Turkey, Bulgaria and Jordan betwe
Nov. 14, 2012
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‘Starcraft II’ expansion ‘Heart of the Swarm,’ to be released next year
“Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm,” the first expansion pack of “Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty,” will be released in March next year, game developer and publisher Blizzard Entertainment said Tuesday. “Heart of the Swarm” features new units, including Terran Hellbats, Zerg Swarm Hosts and Protoss Tempests, along with new maps. The expansion set has about 20 campaign missions, and provides an enhanced battle net service, Blizzard said at a “Starcraft” community party held in Seoul.“With ‘Heart of
Nov. 14, 2012
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Google says more countries asking for Web content removal
Google Inc. said government requests to remove content from its search results and other services rose 71 percent in the first half of the year, according to a new report.The owner of the world’s largest search engine said there were 1,791 requests in the six months through June, up from 1,048 during the last six months of 2011, according to its Transparency Report. Turkey’s government made 501 requests to remove content, up from 45 in the previous period, while the U.S. followed with 273, up fr
Nov. 14, 2012
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New generation arrives for mobile messengers
The soaring popularity of mobile messengers is nothing new in Korea, but the competition is expected to get fiercer among the top industrial players like Kakao Talk and NHN’s Line. In total subscribers, NHN, operator of No. 1 online portal Naver, has secured about 74 million users as of Tuesday with its mobile messenger Line, closely followed by Kakao Talk which has a user base of 66 million as of early this month.Line, which opened service in June last year, is a mobile messenger that has gaine
Nov. 14, 2012
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Spanking linked to higher cancer risk
Children physically abused -- including spanking -- may be at greater risk of cancer, heart disease or asthma, British researchers suggest. Study leader Michael Hyland of Plymouth University‘s School of Psychology said stress caused by spanking or shouting at a child might lead to biological changes that predispose them to disease, The Daily Telegraph reported. The research team asked 250 healthy adults in Saudi Arabia about their childhood and compared the answers to their health as adults. The
Nov. 14, 2012
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Men and women select different ideal heights
The first research on men and women’s different natural selection was done in Sweden. Short women and men of average height are more successful at reproduction, according to the study.Gert Stulp, with colleagues from Groningen, Amsterdam and Cambridge University, studied the number of children born to brothers and sisters in a large-scale American database containing data on thousands of residents of Wisconsin born in 1937 or 1938. “It turned out that by taking the height of just one person, we
Nov. 14, 2012
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'Love hormone' keeps men in relationship away from other women: study
A new study suggests that men are prompted by a hormone which keeps them distant from other attractive women.Rene Hurlemann, a researcher at the University of Bonn in Germany, said in a statement that “oxytocin,” a hormone which is known to contribute to pair-bonding, encourages men to expand their personal emotional barrier when attractive women are around.Hurlemann added that the barrier is activated only when those men are in relationships. Single men do not show such response even when they
Nov. 14, 2012
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Artificial lens mimics the human eye
U.S. researchers say they've created an artificial lens that could lead to implantable lenses to replace damaged or diseased human eye lenses.Nearly identical to the natural lens of the human eye, the technology behind the artificial lens is called "GRIN" or gradient refractive index optics.The lens is made up of thousands of nanoscale polymer layers that bend, or refract, light by varying degrees as it passes through it."The human eye is a GRIN lens," Michael Ponting, a polymer scientist at Cas
Nov. 14, 2012
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Sky-gazers in awe of total eclipse
Sky-gazers in northern Australia donned protective glasses as the clouds parted Wednesday to allow them to witness one of nature‘s greatest phenomena -- a total eclipse of the sun.All eyes and cameras turned to the heavens over tropical north Queensland as the moon began moving between the Earth and the sun, like a small bite which gradually increases in size.Cloud cover threatened to spoil the party and huge cheers erupted when they parted to give tens of thousands of eclipse hunters a perfect
Nov. 14, 2012
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U.S. scientist claims humans’ intelligence declining
Human intelligence has been on the downtrend for thousands of years because of an accumulated genetic mutation harmful to “intelligence” genes, a U.S. geneticist has claimed.According to a study by Professor Gerald Crabtree, head of a genetics laboratory at Stanford University, intellectual powers of humankind peaked in times of hunter-gatherers, and started deteriorating since the introduction of agriculture.Crabtree argues that since the pressure of survival has lessened, natural selection on
Nov. 14, 2012
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Korea's launch of space rocket to be further delayed: officials
South Korea's planned launch of a space rocket will likely be further delayed, government officials said Wednesday, as the Russian replacement for a defective part in the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) is not expected to arrive here until the end of the week.The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and its Launch Preparation Committee earlier said the launch of the KSLV-1 would take place before Nov. 24.The replacement of the defective part, however, will likely arrive here on Sa
Nov. 14, 2012
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Microsoft unveils New Office with cloud computing feature
Microsoft Korea Inc. launched its latest suite of programs for word processing and emails for corporate use on Tuesday.New Office for home use will most likely be launched in the first quarter of 2013, two Microsoft officials told The Korea Herald.“I think nearly all the functions in New Office are new in the market,” Microsoft Korea marketing director Kang Hee-sun said, claiming that now is a significant transition period for software and devices. The Korean operation of U.S. software titan Mic
Nov. 13, 2012
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Dancing lifts teen girls’ mental health
Dancing has a positive influence on teenage girls’ mental health, Swedish researchers say. The study, led by Anna Duberg of the Center for Health Care Sciences, conducted an experiment on girls between ages 13 and 18, who had what researchers call “internalizing problems.” The girls had a depressed mood, low self-worth or persistent feelings of tiredness but their symptoms were not severe enough to warrant psychiatric care.Among 112 girls, about half of the girls were assigned to participate in
Nov. 13, 2012
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Study: Drought pushed Mayan decline
Scientists say they‘ve seen clues to the reason for the rapid decline of the Maya civilization that once occupied much of modern-day Mexico and Central America.The Mayan civilization, known for its sophisticated calendar system and pyramid construction, sprang up in 300 A.D. but seemed to collapse between 800 and 1000 A.D.A study published in the Journal Science suggests the Maya civilization perished from the effects of extreme changes in climate.Unusual rainfall patterns doomed the Maya people
Nov. 13, 2012
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‘Alien’ horned dinosaur found in Canada
Canadian researchers say they have identified fossils found more than 50 years ago as a new species of horned dinosaur that roamed Alberta 78 million years ago.Xenoceratops foremostensis, identified from fossils originally collected in 1958, was around 20 feet long and weighed more than 2 tons and represents the oldest known large-bodied horned dinosaur from Canada, paleontologists said.Writing in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, researchers said the new dinosaur was identified from skull
Nov. 13, 2012
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LG to expand premium TV marketing beyond Asia
LG Electronics said Monday that it will expand the sales target for its premium 84-inch ultra-high-definition television from four countries to 40 countries by the end of 2012.Currently the nation’s first and only ultra-HD TV, LG 84LM9600 was first launched at home in August and had its premiere in the U.S., China, Vietnam and Malaysia. “The premium market is not so much affected by the recession. There are always people with money who want them (premium large TVs),” an LG spokesperson said, exp
Nov. 12, 2012
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Microsoft demonstrates live speech translation
Microsoft unveiled speech translation technology that turns English into Chinese instantly.The software preserves intonation and cadence so the translated speech still sounds like the original speaker. Microsoft chief researcher officer Rick Rashid demonstrated details of the technology in a blog post following a presentation he gave in Tianjin, China, in late October.He said that the demo is the result of 60 years of work and some breakthroughs in the last two years. These breakthroughs, he sai
Nov. 12, 2012
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Love makes brain ‘blind’
When a person looks at the person he or she adores, parts of the brain linked to judgment, fear or other negative emotions close down, according to a new study by British scientists.“When you look at someone you are passionate about, some areas of the brain become active … But a large part is deactivated, the part that plays a role in judgment,” said Semir Zeki, professor from Department of Cognitive Neurology, University College London. In the study “The neural basis of romantic love,” Zeki and
Nov. 12, 2012
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Eating late linked to weight gain
A study on mice has suggested that eating at night can affect metabolism and cause weight gain.“A relatively modest shift in food consumption into what is normally the rest period for mice can favor energy storage,” said Georgios Paschos from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, who participated in the research.According to the study, mice that had the “clock gene” ARNTL removed from them tend to eat in the daytime instead of at night, which is unusual because mice
Nov. 12, 2012
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Hamburger takes balloon ride into space
A group of Harvard students say they aren‘t sure what happened to the first hamburger to be launched into space, but they suspect a squirrel made off with it.The burger was carried into space last month aboard a helium balloon and was missing from its container when the balloon fell back to earth and landed in a tall tree in Massachusetts.Renzo Lucioni told The Boston Globe he and his colleagues had to hire a tree trimmer to go up the 100-foot tree and retrieve the deflated balloon, but the sand
Nov. 12, 2012