Localization in foreign markets remains biggest challenge for global expansionKorea’s online game industry is increasing efforts to dive into overseas markets in a bid to seize bigger business opportunities in the Internet era.Well-known local online game publishers and developers, such as Neowiz Games, NEXON and Hangame, have said targeting foreign markets is a top priority for this year.“We have

May 24, 2011

In this image provided by NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel works in the space shuttle Endeavour's payload bay during the mission's first spacewalk at the International Space Station Friday May 20, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News/NASA)HOUSTON (AP) _ In an unprecedented cosmic photo shoot Monday, a departing spaceship snapped close-up glamour pictures of the space shuttle Endeavour attached to the International

May 24, 2011

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the edge-on profile of the slender spiral galaxy NGC 5775, which is surrounded by a halo of gas that astronomers suspect is kicked up by star explosions like a galaxy-size fountain. (NASA)Jack Sparrow seeks to find the fountain of youth in the fourth installment of “Pirates of the Caribbean” -- now Hubble scientists have found one of a sort, but 85

May 24, 2011

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) _ Iceland closed its main international airport Sunday as a volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam 12 miles (20 kilometers) into the air.Smoke rises from the Grimsvotn volcano in Reykjavik, Iceland, Saturday. (AP-Yonhap News)Airport and air traffic control operator ISAVIA said Keflavik airport was closed at 0830 GMT (4:30 a.m. EDT), and no flights were takin

May 22, 2011

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) _ Pope Benedict XVI had a direct line to the heavens Saturday, with NASA's help.Speaking from the Vatican, the pontiff bestowed a historic blessing upon the 12 astronauts circling Earth during the first-ever papal call to space, wishing a swift recovery for the shuttle commander's wounded congresswoman wife and condolences for a station astronaut mourning his mother's

May 22, 2011

(AP-Yonhap News)The existence of “dark energy” that accelerates expansion of the Universe has been confirmed by an astronomical survey of about 200,000 galaxies, BBC reported. Dark energy makes up some 74 percent of the Universe and its force pulls the Universe apart at increasing speed. “The action of dark energy is as if you threw a ball up in the air, and it kept speeding upward into the sky fa

May 20, 2011

HTC's new smartphone unveiled in Seoul on Friday (Yonhap News)        HTC Corp. said Friday it will release its new flagship smartphone in South Korea next week, hoping that the phone's movie streaming feature will help the Taiwanese firm gain ground.    SK Telecom Co., South Korea's largest mobile phone carrier, will exclusively release the Sensation smartphone on May 25, said HTC's North Asia Pr

May 20, 2011

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― More is better when it comes to drinking coffee to ward off the risk of deadly prostate cancer, according to a major U.S. study released by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.Men who drank six or more cups per day had a 60 percent lower risk of developing the most lethal type of prostate cancer and a 20 percent lower risk of forming any type of prostate cancer co

May 19, 2011

Urinary stones are hard buildups of minerals that form in the urinary system and cause urinary tract infection, the obstruction of urinary flow and sometimes renal dysfunction. They may also be accompanied by pain and bleeding. The structural order and chemical components of a urinary stone, as well as abnormalities shown in the urine, began to be unraveled in the 20th century with the advent of a

May 19, 2011

Although there is no cure, irritable bowel syndrome can be managedWhen he was a college student, Lee Sang-woo used to memorize the location of toilets at every subway station between his home and school. “Because I had diarrhea frequently, I never took the bus,” said the 32-year-old office worker who has suffered from irritable bowel syndrome for more than 10 years. Even though his symptoms have i

May 19, 2011

Astronomers on Wednesday said they had found a previously inconceivable phenomenon: planets that do not appear to be anchored to a host star but instead wander the heavens.In a two-year scan of the cosmos, 10 planets with roughly the mass of Jupiter, the largest planet of our Solar System, have been found at such enormous distances from the nearest star that some of them could be said to float fre

May 19, 2011

(MCT)A $700 blood test that tells someone’s biological age will go on sale in Britain later this year, the Independent reported Monday.The test will be able to offer the possibility of estimating how long the person has left to live by measuring telomeres on the tip of their chromosomes, the most important and accurate indicators of how rapidly someone is aging. However, critics worry that it can

May 16, 2011

An undergraduate student of Bournemouth University in England has created a “symphony” of Twitter feeds, the Daily Telegraph reported. Music technology student Sam Harman used a computer program to turn Twitter posts into sounds by giving each character its own distinctive tone. As a computer reads each Tweet, it plays a sound. The result is a collection of sounds similar to a xylophone. “The syst

May 15, 2011

 WASHINGTON (AFP) – A moon of Jupiter is the only place other than Earth in our solar system where volcanoes occur, and scientists have found an ocean of magma beneath its surface that feed its potent eruptions.Io is the most volcanic object known in the solar system, producing 100 times more lava than Earth, and data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft has shed new light on how that happens, said the

May 13, 2011