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Qoo10 liquidity crisis sparks massive complaints, fears of wider damage
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Yoon urges municipalities to embrace foreigners
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What is happening at Hybe?
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Korea unveils tax reform bill to spur economy
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S. Korea to consent to Japan's Sado mines gaining World Heritage status: official
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Actor’s excessive airport security sparks probe into human rights violations
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Crowded public transport, long commutes top stressors for Seoul, Gyeonggi workers: survey
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Man who let his father die due to financial difficulties to be released on parole
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Actor Yoo Ah-in accused of sexual attack
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S. Korea, China shifting from tensions to cooperation: Seoul
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Depression in kids and adolescents
It is natural to feel unhappy during times of frustration or loss at different points in our lives. Children and adolescents can also experience such feelings like adults. These depressive symptoms are usually temporary and are relieved in a few days. However, when this mood progresses to depression, it lasts for a longer period and it is difficult to overcome on one’s own. Therefore, early detection and intervention with regards to depression in children and adolescents is important. The depres
Aug. 2, 2012
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Screening for atopic dermatitis
Summer is a cruel season for atopic dermatitis patients and their families. The heat and humidity exacerbate the itchiness and pain that come with the disorder. Worried parents often stay up all night fanning their children kept awake by itchy and swollen skin. According to the British National Health Service, atopic eczema, also known as atopic dermatitis, is the most common form of eczema. It mainly affects children, but can continue into adulthood.The number of people diagnosed with atopic d
Aug. 2, 2012
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Distant galaxy scene of cosmic violence
A seemingly tranquil galaxy that has been the scene of violent cosmic events has been captured in new telescopic images, European astronomers said. The galaxy, NGC 1187, discovered by English astronomer William Herschel in 1784, looks tranquil and unchanging but it has hosted two supernovae explosions since 1982, they said.The galaxy‘s half a dozen prominent spiral arms containing large amounts of gas and dust show bluish features indicating the presence of young stars born out of the clouds of
Aug. 2, 2012
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Who owns the North Pole?
Danish geologists heading for the arctic say their expedition could support a claim the North Pole belongs to Greenland, and by extension to Denmark.Seismic data they collect may support the claim of Denmark and Greenland, politically linked, to 60,000 square miles of extra territory extending north from Greenland into the oil and gas-rich arctic sea floor, they said.The claim rests on whether an underwater formation extending north of Greenland called the Lomonosov Ridge qualifies as an extensi
Aug. 2, 2012
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Microsoft to phase out Hotmail, focus on Outlook email
Microsoft Corp., the world’s biggest software maker, will introduce a new, free Web-based email portal under its Outlook brand and phase out Hotmail over time as it seeks to draw users from Google Inc.’s Gmail. A preview of the new service went online today and Hotmail probably will be phased out in the next year, said Brian Hall, a general manager in Microsoft’s Windows group, in an interview. By going with Outlook, Microsoft is trying to capitalize on the brand behind the most-used corporate e
Aug. 1, 2012
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Samsung, Apple launch salvos in court battle
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. told jurors that its products are not copycats of Apple Inc’s iPhone but rather an example of legitimate American-style competition from the South Korean company.Lawyers for both tech giants faced off on Tuesday for opening statements in the highly anticipated U.S. patent trial, where Apple has accused Samsung of stealing iPhone features like scrolling and multi-touch.The stakes are high: Apple is being tested on its worldwide patent strategy against Google’s Android
Aug. 1, 2012
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Tapjoy targets Korea’s mobile ad market
U.S.-based firm joins hands with SK Planet to get business going in KoreaTapjoy, a San Francisco-based mobile advertising firm, said Tuesday it is putting its focus on the Korean market, claiming it is the company’s biggest after its home turf.Mihir Shah, president and chief executive of Tapjoy, said Korea is a special market due to its infrastructure and connectivity as well as its penetration of devices running on the fourth-generation Long Term Evolution networks.“Today, Korea is our No. 2 ma
Aug. 1, 2012
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Popularity of Diablo 3 plunges in Korea
The popularity of Diablo 3, one of the major online role-playing games in South Korea, has nosedived on the game rankings here, according to GameNote, a local website offering online game news.The latest ranking table released by GameNote on Aug. 1 showed that Diablo 3 has plummeted to the 11th place, which is eight steps down from the 3rd as recorded a week earlier.Diablo 3 was one of the most anticipated titles this year and it has managed to retain some popularity despite critical bugs and ex
Aug. 1, 2012
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Video game claims to treat depression
New Zealand developers said they have created a video game that will help young people overcome depression. SPARX, developed by the University of Auckland and Metia Interactive, is a role-playing game designed to teach teenagers how to cope with depression.“You can deal with mental health problems in a way that doesn’t have to be deadly serious,” said project leader Sally Merry in an interview with Britain’s Daily Mail. “The therapy doesn’t have to be depressing in and of itself. We’re aiming to
Aug. 1, 2012
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Smiling during stress may help the heart
(123rf)People who smile even though they don't feel like it had lower heart beat levels, U.S. researcher suggest.Psychological scientists Tara Kraft and Sarah Pressman of the University of Kansas conducted a series of experiments involving 169 participants from a Midwestern university.The study involved two phases -- training and testing. During the training phase, participants were divided into t
Aug. 1, 2012
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World’s largest floating solar plant starts work
The world’s largest solar plant on water went into operation on Tuesday, paving the way for the commercialization of a new solar energy provider, said Korea Water Resources Corp., or K-water. The state-run water service company organized the three-year project in August 2008, and Korean industrial solutions firm LSIS undertook the plant construction in 2011 on Hapcheon Dam in Hapcheon, South Gyeongsang Province. “K-water plans to form partnerships with private firms for the standardization and o
July 31, 2012
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‘LTE users to hit 42m in 2013’
The number of Koreans who use smartphones with the Long Term Evolution network is expected to pass the 40-million subscriber mark in 2013, a Seoul-based consulting firm forecast on Tuesday.ROA Consulting said that the number of subscribers may hit 42 million, marking a new era in the domestic telecommunications industry. According to the company’s report, about seven out of 10 mobile device users in Korea will use a smartphone with 4G LTE technology in 2013. This represents a significant jump fr
July 31, 2012
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Romance is over when photos are stashed
The point at which people put an ex-partner‘s photo away after a split is usually when they are emotionally ready to move on, a British psychologist says.“It’s not surprising that nearly half of us keep some kind of visual memento of past partners -- this goes for partners who were divorced or died as well -- a photo generates strong emotions as it unleashes memories of past attachment and times,” Corinne Sweet, behavioral psychologist said in a statement.A survey for Friends Reunited, a social
July 31, 2012
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Twitter clocks half-million users: Monitor
Over 500 million people are on micro-blogging site Twitter and Americans and Brazilians are the most connected, according to a study by social media monitor Semiocast released Monday.Twitter surpassed the half-billion mark at the end of June, with the United States accounting for both the most users and largest number of “tweets” or short messages of no more than 140 characters posted on the site.The Paris-based monitor carried out the study by analysing data like time zone, geolocation and lang
July 31, 2012
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Apple to debut its new iOS devices on Sept. 12
Apple is planning to announce the launch of the iPhone 5 and a new iPad at a special event on Sept. 12 according to technology blog iMore.Citing sources who “have proven accurate in the past,” iMore said Apple’s new iPhone and iPad Mini, a new smaller-sized tablet computer, will be open to the market on Sept. 21, nine days after the announcement.The article also said that a new iPod Touch will make an appearance at the event, as well as a new iPod Nano.A French website App4Phone.fr also said tha
July 31, 2012
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Humans would be also-rans in all-species Olympics: study
(AP)Human beings would be made to look decidedly unimpressive were animals allowed to compete in the Olympics -- outperformed by the likes of kangaroos, gorillas and ostriches, a science paper said Saturday.Usain Bolt, currently the world's fastest man, may just be able to outrun a Dromedary camel but would trail the cheetah, greyhound and ostrich in a sprint race, said a feature in the Veterinary
July 31, 2012
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Star-spangled banners still there
NASA released new images from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) showing U.S. flags planted in lunar soil.The new images have finally given proof that the flags are still standing.Astronauts planted flags during each of the six American moon landings, starting from Apollo 11’s landing in 1969 to Apollo 17’s in 1972. The American moon landings remain the only manned flights to touch down on a heavenly body.According to an analysis of the shadows they cast on the surface of the moon, five
July 31, 2012
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Samsung, Apple may resolve patent disputes
HONG KONG (Yonhap News) ― Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. will likely reach an agreement over their patent disputes as neither of the two companies has been a clear winner, Fitch Ratings said Monday.Samsung Electronics and Apple, the world’s two largest smartphone makers, have been waging a series of legal suits against each other, blaming each other for patent infringement in design and technology patents on their key mobile devices.“Fitch sees the legal battle continuing for at least th
July 30, 2012
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3M Korea holds science camp for students
3M Korea said Sunday that it has successfully held the 11th session of an annual science camp for middle school students. About 120 outstanding science students participated in the one-day event, which took place at a local training center in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province. A variety of hands-on activities were offered, including a forensic science project, where students learned how to analyze blood stains found at a “crime scene,” as well as a tower-stacking activity involving colorful ca
July 30, 2012
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Rich men, poor women exposed to obesity
Women on low incomes are more likely to be obese, while the opposite is true for men, according to a statistical report by the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare.In a report titled “2010 National Health Statistics,” the ministry classified 8,000 people into four groups based on their monthly income.The relationship between income and obesity rates were opposite for men and women. Men’s obesity rate went up in high-income groups -- 41.0 percent compared to 31.8 percent for their low-income cou
July 30, 2012