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Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
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Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
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North Korea removes streetlights along cross-border roads with South
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Russia's denial of entry of S. Korean national unrelated to bilateral ties: Seoul official
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S. Korea votes in favor of Palestinian bid for UN membership
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Bae Doo-na shares portraying Korean identity in Hollywood's 'Rebel Moon'
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Farming households dip below 1m for first time in 2023
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[From the Scene] Monks, Buddhists hail return of remains of Buddhas
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NHN Line becomes No.1 mobile messenger
NHN’s Line has overtaken its close peer Kakao Talk to become the world’s most used mobile messenger.NHN, the operator of Korea’s largest search engine Naver, said Monday that the number of Line users worldwide surpassed 60 million as of Sept. 8.Kakao Talk had 59 million as of Sept. 7.Market watchers say the two sides will have a neck-and-neck competition as Kakao will soon have over 60 million users as it strengthens its overseas operations.NHN has been focusing on marketing Line mostly in Japan
Sept. 10, 2012
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Violent games can ease pain: study
People may develop a higher tolerance toward pain by playing video games that involve players shooting and killing enemies, British scientists claimed on Friday.According to research by Keele University, playing “first-person shooter” games enabled players to endure pain for 65 percent longer than those who played a non-violent golf game.The 40 participants of the study were asked to play both the violent and non-violent games for 10 minutes and then to place a hand in ice-cold water to test pa
Sept. 10, 2012
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U.S. firm looks for Korean opportunities with radiation exposure detection kit
Detecting radiation exposure is a time-consuming and expensive procedure, with conventional blood-based tests costing thousands of dollars and taking days before results come out.A small Los Angeles-based company hopes to revolutionize the process. According to CEO of DxTerity Diagnostics Bob Terbrueggen, the company’s DxDirect technology represents an opportunity to lower testing costs, and to improve the way the authorities deal with incidents where a large number of people are exposed to radi
Sept. 9, 2012
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Local team finds protein linked to cancer spread
Discovery could open new possibilities for treatment methodsCancer is one of the most prevalent chronic health conditions in the world, and affects millions of people across the globe each year.According to one estimate, as many as 12.7 million people developed cancer in 2008 alone, and 7.6 million people are thought to have succumbed to cancer in that year. Korea had the world’s 24th-highest cancer frequency in 2008 for both sexes, according to the World Cancer Research Fund International. One
Sept. 9, 2012
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Korea’s automobile exports drop to 3-year low in August
Korea’s exports of cars dropped sharply from a year earlier in August due to a large cut in production caused by labor strikes that also led to shrinking domestic sales, the government said Sunday.Outbound shipments by the country’s five automakers came to 164,805 vehicles in August, down 23.6 percent from the same month last year, according to the Ministry of Knowledge Economy.The August figure marks the lowest tally in 36 months since August 2009, and also the first year-on-year drop in 2012.T
Sept. 9, 2012
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Samsung says Apple patent invalid as court hears claim on Galaxy
Samsung Electronics Co. said Apple Inc.’s patent claim on so-called multi-touch flags is not valid, as its main competitor in smartphones pursues an infringement case in the Netherlands to ban Samsung Galaxy handsets.Apple claims Galaxy smartphones and tablets infringe the patent that interprets finger activity on touchscreens. Cupertino, California-based Apple lost an earlier claim against HTC Corp. in the U.K. for infringing the patent, as a U.K. judge said it was invalid because it was too ob
Sept. 9, 2012
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KT launches app platform for Japan’s NTT Docomo
KT said Sunday that it has introduced an app platform for NTT Docomo, Japan’s biggest mobile carrier, marking the first time a Korean telecom company has developed an app market overseas.The development of the platform, named “Olleh Market W,” is part of KT’s efforts to become a global media distribution group.Also, this project was in line with “One Asia Super Inter-Store,” or OASIS, which seeks to promote app exchanges among China, Japan and Korea. KT, NTT and China Mobile formed a strategic a
Sept. 9, 2012
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Distance record for 'teleportation' set
(123rf)An international team of physicists says they have set a "teleportation" distance record, sending quantum information farther than ever before.Teleportation may bring to mind "Star Trek" and "Beam me up, Scotty," but in this case the researchers from Austria, Canada and Germany say they beamed the quantum state of a particle of light -- a photon -- from one island to another 89 miles away,
Sept. 9, 2012
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Apple on the move to launch Internet radio service: report
Apple is rising to be the newsmaker in the global tech arena as foreign media reported on Saturday that the company is planning to launch an Internet radio service, competing with Pandora Media.The Cupertino-based firm is also reportedly making moves to offer the fourth-generation communication technology LTE-based iPhones around the world, including Korea.Involving the Apple’s entry in the field
Sept. 8, 2012
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Nokia caught faking TV ad
ESPOO (UPI) -- Finnish phone company Nokia admitted that it had been caught red-handed faking a television ad for its new Lumia 920 mobile phone.An article in The Verge called Nokia on the ad after spotting a reflection of a camera filming for the advertisement that was said to be an example of how great the phone‘s video technology looked.Nokia was touting the phone camera’s “PureView” capability, which makes it possible to film a moving object from a moving platform.The Los Angeles Times repor
Sept. 7, 2012
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Non-alcoholic wine lowers blood pressure
BARCELONA (UPI) -- Men at high risk for heart disease had lower blood pressure after drinking non-alcoholic red wine for four weeks, researchers in Spain say.Gemma Chiva-Blanch of the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona and colleagues studied 67 men with diabetes, or three or more cardiovascular risk factors, who ate a common diet plus one of the following drinks -- about 10 ounces of red wine, a similar amount of non-alcoholic red wine or about 3 ounces of gin.All of the men tried each diet/beverage c
Sept. 7, 2012
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Green tea good for the memory
The chemical properties of green tea affect the generation of brain cells, providing benefits for memory and spatial learning, researchers in China say. Professor Yun Bai of the Third Military Medical University in Chongqing, China, and his team focused on the organic chemical epigallocatechin-3 gallate, known as EGCG, an antioxidant in green tea. "Green tea is a popular beverage across the worl
Sept. 7, 2012
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Study: Death of dinosaurs was second event
The dying of dinosaurs 65 million years ago may have been the second of two extinction events, following one that killed marine life, U.S. scientists say.The extinction of dinosaurs is thought to be due to an asteroid at least 6 miles in diameter slamming into Mexico‘s Yucatan Peninsula, but new evidence shows life on the seafloor was already perishing at the time of the impact because of the effects of huge volcanic eruptions on the Deccan Plateau in what is now India.Researchers at the Univers
Sept. 7, 2012
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Vietnam Agent Orange victims get Scientology 'detox'
Dozens of Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange on Thursday embarked on a controversial detoxification treatment plan developed by the Church of Scientology, a Hanoi hospital director said.US aircraft sprayed chemical defoliants such as Agent Orange over vast swathes of jungle during the Vietnam War in an attempt to flush out Viet Cong communist guerrillas by depriving them of tree cover and food.Th
Sept. 7, 2012
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Samsung hits 20 million Galaxy S3 sales
Tech giant’s products to ‘come out strong’ despite legal challenges with Apple, analysts saySamsung Electronics, the world’s largest tech company by revenue, saw record sales of its flagship Galaxy S3 in a short period of time, despite recent difficulties over legal issues with its rival Apple.The company said Thursday that it sold more than 20 million Galaxy S3 smartphones globally in 100 days since its introduction in late May.In the first 50 days, Samsung sold 10 million Galaxy S3 smartphones
Sept. 6, 2012
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Tick-borne virus, new to Americas, identified in Missouri
Federal scientists have isolated a virus in ticks that has never before appeared in the Western Hemisphere and are calling on other scientists to look for evidence of the disease-causing pathogen.Virus hunters from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the virus causes an illness nearly identical to ehrlichiosis, a tick-borne disease that is caused by a bacterium.The newfound pathogen, known as a phlebovirus, was isolated in 2009 in two Missouri men who doctors knew had been bitten
Sept. 6, 2012
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Australian gets the world’s first prototype bionic eye
SYDNEY ― An Australian woman robbed of her sight 30 years ago told Thursday how she saw a “little flash of light” after being implanted with the world’s first prototype bionic eye.Dianne Ashworth, 54, went blind through an inherited condition called retinitis pigmentosa but had some vision after the device was surgically implanted in a Melbourne hospital and connected up to a laboratory unit.“All of a sudden I could see a little flash ... it was amazing,” Ashworth said in a statement from the Bi
Sept. 6, 2012
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DNA database unlocks map to genetic disease
CHICAGO (AFP) ― A massive DNA database has generated a map of the genetic switches which impact everything from hair loss to cancer and opened the door to revolutionary treatments for a host of deadly diseases, researchers said Wednesday.“This is a major step toward understanding the wiring diagram of a human being,” said lead researcher Michael Snyder of Stanford University.The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements ― or ENCODE ― has enabled scientists to assign specific biological functions for 80 perce
Sept. 6, 2012
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Guard against colon cancer
Many think that colon cancer is something that people aged over 50 should be worried about, but it pays to be on guard against the disease at a much earlier age, doctors say. A study released Thursday by the Korean Society of Coloproctology found that over 20 percent of men in their 30s who underwent colonoscopies between 2009 and 2011 had one or more polyps, the primary seed of colon cancer. It was a surprisingly high rate for the age group, which was regarded as less vulnerable, researchers sa
Sept. 6, 2012
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Cystitis
Cystitis is an inflammation of the bladder lining which can be caused by microorganisms (bacteria, protozoa or viruses), allergies, radiation and pharmacological agents. The most common mechanism of cystitis is bacterial infection through the urethra. Because women have shorter urethras than men, they are more prone to urinary tract infections. This is because the bacteria from the urethra, vagina or the cervix can flow back to the bladder. In this case, the main bacterial organisms are those of
Sept. 6, 2012