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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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Doctor group's incoming head renews call for govt. to scrap medical school quota hike for dialogue
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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Premature babies 5 times more likely to be autistic: study
WASHINGTON, Oct 17, 2011 (AFP) - Babies who are born early and small are five times as likely as normal infants to develop autism, according to a two-decade-long US study released Monday.Premature babies have long been known to risk a host of health problems and cognitive delays, but the study in th
Oct. 17, 2011
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Disgraced Korean scientist unveils cloned coyotes
SEOUL, Oct 17, 2011 (AFP) - Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-Suk unveiled eight cloned coyotes Monday in a project sponsored by a provincial government.Hwang delivered the clones to a wild animal shelter at Pyeongtaek, 50 kilometres (35 miles) south of Seoul, in a ceremony chaire
Oct. 17, 2011
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Climate change downsizing fauna, flora: study
PARIS (AFP) -- Climate change is reducing the body size of many animal and plant species, including some which supply vital nutrition for more than a billion people already living near hunger's threshold, according to a study released Sunday.From micro-organisms to top predators, nearly 45 percent o
Oct. 17, 2011
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Mobile Web surfing gains momentum among Korean users
The red-hot boom of smartphones in South Korea is reshaping the way people surf the Web, heralding changes in the cyberspace in favor of greater mobile access rather than conventional media such as desktop and laptop computers. The proportion of those accessing major Korean portals and social networ
Oct. 16, 2011
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Samsung heir to attend Jobs memorial service at Stanford
Lee Jae-yong, chief operating officer of Samsung Electronics Co., is planning to attend a memorial service for Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple Inc., in the U.S. this weekend, industrial sources said Sunday.Lee, the only son of Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee, has been invited by Ap
Oct. 16, 2011
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iPhone’s Siri voice command to reach Korean users next year
Apple Inc. is expected to offer a Korean-language version of its Siri voice command feature starting in 2012, the U.S.-based technology giant said Saturday.The company said on its website that it will begin offering Siri services in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Italian and Spanish starting next year,
Oct. 16, 2011
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1in 6 mobile phones contaminated with fecal bacteria
One in six mobile phones in Britain is contaminated with faecal matter, ScienceDaily reported Saturday. According to new research released ahead of Global Handwashing Day, the most likely reason for the potentially harmful bacteria festering on so many gadgets is people failing to wash their hands p
Oct. 16, 2011
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New iPhone launch turns into remembrance for Jobs
NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn't just the latest iPhone that drew people to Apple stores Friday.Many consumers waited in lines for hours — sometimes enduring chilly temperatures and overnight thunderstorms — to remember Steve Jobs, Apple's visionary who died last week.The company's first
Oct. 15, 2011
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Apple scoffs at Samsung’s mobile patent infringement claim
SEOUL (Yonhap) -- A lawyer for Apple Inc. said Friday that Samsung Electronics Co.’s mobile patent lacks novelty and was not invented by the Korean firm, the iPhone maker’s latest attempt to counter the accusation that it is using its rival’s technology without permission. The latest court showdown
Oct. 14, 2011
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Google said to seek rights from record labels for online store
Google Inc. is seeking agreements with record companies by the end of the month to start a music store that will compete with Apple Inc.'s iTunes, three people with knowledge of the talks said. Google is seeking permission to sell downloads and to stream purchased music to its customers' devices, sa
Oct. 14, 2011
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‘Premature birth needs 35 weeks’
A group of doctors here say it is safer for Korean women to give birth at 35 weeks or later, even should premature labor be required, suggesting a different view from U.S. obstetricians’ 34 week theory. Thirty-five weeks is the minimum period of time for the fetus to be able to protect itself from v
Oct. 13, 2011
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NCC lung cancer survival rate exceeds 50%
Thirty-nine out of 81 lung cancer patients who underwent surgery to remove tumors in 2001 at the National Cancer Center have lived till now, the hospital said Wednesday. Moreover, the hospital’s five-year survival rate marked 65 percent. Among them, two out of every three survivors were declared “he
Oct. 13, 2011
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Autumn season hair care
Human hair usually has a growth cycle. It is made up of three periods: growth season; catagen season and telogen season.The growth phase of hair is about three years, catagen phase is about three weeks and then there is a pause for about three months. This is continually repeated. In contrast to ani
Oct. 13, 2011
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Obese population growing in Korea, with estimated 70,000 serious cases
Being fat used to represent wealth in the old days, when life was hard.But nowadays, it has emerged as a social issue for a very different reason: it is not healthy. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, about 31.3 percent of adults are likely to become overweight once in their lifetime a
Oct. 13, 2011
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Pancreatic cancer 4th most deadly
Death of Apple founder Jobs, Steinman highlights cancer with few treatmentsPancreatic cancer is notoriously lethal ― there are almost as many deaths from it each year as there are new cases. The deaths this week of Apple founder Steve Jobs and Nobel laureate Ralph Steinman have brought more attentio
Oct. 13, 2011
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Panel advises against prostate cancer screening
WASHINGTON (AP) ― No major medical group recommends routine PSA blood tests to check men for prostate cancer, and now a government panel is saying they do more harm than good and healthy men should no longer receive the tests as part of routine cancer screening.The panel’s guidelines had long advise
Oct. 13, 2011
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Deadly Black Death bug hasn't changed, but we have
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists have cracked the genetic code of the Black Death, one of history's worst plagues, and found that its modern day bacterial descendants haven't changed much over 600 years.Luckily, we have.The evolution of society and medicine _ and our own bodies _ has far outpaced
Oct. 13, 2011
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Apple wins ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales in Australia
SYDNEY, Oct 13, 2011 (AFP) - US technology giant Apple on Thursday won a temporary ban on Samsung selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia after launching legal action on the grounds that it copied Apple's top-selling iPad.The Federal Court handed down its long-awaited judgement in Sydney but said t
Oct. 13, 2011
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80 percent of US boys use condoms the first time
CHICAGO (AP) _ A surprising 80 percent of teenage boys say they are using condoms the first time they have sex, a government survey found in a powerful sign that decades of efforts to change young people's sexual behavior are taking hold.But another promising trend _ a drop since the 1980s in the nu
Oct. 13, 2011
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BlackBerry outages spread to North America
NEW YORK (AP) _ Sporadic outages of BlackBerry messaging and email service spread to the U.S. and Canada on Wednesday, as problems stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.Research In Motion Ltd., the Canadian company that makes the phones, said users in the Americas `
Oct. 12, 2011