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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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[Graphic News] 77% of young Koreans still financially dependent
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Yoo Jae-suk, Yoo Yeon-seok team up in 'Whenever Possible'
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Aging population to drive down Korea's housing prices from 2040: experts
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North Korea holds drills simulating nuclear counterattack against enemy
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Emotional return to Fenway
BOSTON (AP) ― David Ortiz has been in the middle of some of Fenway Park’s greatest moments. None of them seemed more important to “Big Papi” than his role in one Saturday afternoon.Ortiz helped the Red Sox honor the victims and the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombings then played in his first game since last summer, a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals capped by Daniel Nava’s three-run homer in the eighth inning.“I try to take the positive side of things and ride with it,” Ortiz said,
April 21, 2013
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Choo leads Reds to another win
CINCINNATI (AP) ― Tony Cingrani might have been a little too relaxed for his first big league start. With the way the Reds have been hitting, that’s understandable.Choo Shin-soo singled, doubled and scored twice, helping Cingrani get a victory in his starting debut, and the Reds won their fourth in a row by beating the Miami Marlins 11-1 on Thursday night. Cincinnati’s winning streak has featured stingy starting pitching. The 23-year-old Cingrani needed a lot of pitches, but kept up the trend.Mi
April 19, 2013
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Lotte Giants losing games, fans in KBO
It didn’t used to be this way for the Lotte Giants in the Korea Baseball Organization. The Busan-based Giants have been the most popular club in the nation’s top baseball league in terms of home attendance and have been to the playoffs every year since 2008.The Giants are the first KBO club to draw more than 1 million fans at home in five straight seasons. That streak is in jeopardy this year, however, as the Giants have been losing fans, not to mention games, at an alarming rate.The Giants were
April 19, 2013
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Braves’ win streak snapped
ATLANTA (AP) ― Jeff Francoeur always enjoys beating his first team.This one was especially sweet.Francoeur had an RBI single and Wade Davis made it stand up with five-hit ball over seven innings, leading the Kansas City Royals past the Braves 1-0 on Wednesday to stop Atlanta’s 10-game winning streak.Born and raised in the Atlanta area, Francoeur started his career with his hometown team before being traded in 2009. Now on his third team since his days with the Braves, he visited with dozens of f
April 18, 2013
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Phillies and Reds game suspended due to rain
CINCINNATI (AP) ― The Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds managed only two singles apiece on Tuesday night, staying scoreless until their game was suspended because of heavy rain in the middle of the ninth inning.The game will be picked up at the same point on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., before the teams play the finale of their series no earlier than 7:10 p.m.Phillies reliever Phillippe Aumont was warming up to start the bottom of the ninth when heavy rain prompted the umpires to call for the
April 17, 2013
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Proud day takes a tragic turn
MIAMI (AP) ― Lined up in front of their dugouts, all wearing No. 42 on Jackie Robinson Day, the Washington Nationals and Miami Marlins stood for a moment of silence to honor bombing victims at the Boston Marathon.What began as an annual celebration to salute the man who broke baseball’s color barrier 66 years ago turned somber after a pair of explosions near the finish line in Boston ― about a mile from Fenway Park ― killed three people and injured more than 130 on Monday.Hours later, Major Leag
April 16, 2013
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Phillips’ clutch hit ends Reds’ five-game skid
CINCINNATI (AP) ― Brandon Phillips drove in a pair of runs with a bases-loaded single in the eighth inning and the Cincinnati Reds ended their five-game losing streak by beating the Philadelphia Phillies 4-2 on Monday night.Cincinnati’s five-game slide matched its longest slump from last season, when it won the NL Central.The Reds still didn’t hit much, but left-hander Cliff Lee helped them by letting in a run on a wild pitch in the seventh. Todd Frazier followed with a sacrifice fly for a 2-0 l
April 16, 2013
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Eagles drop 13th-straight game
The No. 13 is considered an unlucky one in many cultures, including in South Korea, and the country’s top baseball league is no exception.The Hanwha Eagles on Sunday lost their 13th straight game to start the 2013 season in the Korea Baseball Organization, setting the record for the longest slide to start a season. The Lotte Giants lost 12 in a row to begin the 2003 season, but they’re now out of the record books after the Eagles were blanked by the LG Twins 8-0 at home in Daejeon.The Eagles gav
April 15, 2013
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Goldschmidt’s walk-off hit lifts D-backs past Dodgers
PHOENIX (AP) ― Paul Goldschmidt rarely has been so happy making so little contact. Goldschmidt hit a slow grounder off Josh Beckett that found its way into right field with one out in the ninth inning Sunday, lifting the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Los Angeles Dodgers 1-0.“It would have been a strike but I was out front of it,” Goldschmidt said. “It fooled me, so I was really lucky it found a hole. When I saw it, I thought it had a chance.”Diamondbacks starter Trevor Cahill pitched six-hit bal
April 15, 2013
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Ryu Hyun-jin goes 3 for 3 and tosses 6 solid innings for win
Ryu Hyun-jin struck out nine in six innings, getting his first three major league hits in the process, and the Los Angeles Dodgers held off the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-5 Saturday night.Adrian Gonzalez went 3 for 4 with a home run and two RBIs as the Dodgers stopped a six-game losing streak in Arizona dating to last season. Matt Kemp singled in two runs, Skip Schumaker had an RBI double and Andre Ethier singled in a run for Los Angeles.The Dodgers led 6-1 after six innings but Arizona tried to ral
April 14, 2013
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NC Dinos get monkey off their back, earn first KBO win
It took them eight games, and the NC Dinos finally have their first victory in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO).Behind a strong start by right-hander Lee Jae-hak, the expansion club defeated the LG Twins 4-1 in Seoul Thursday night.They're now 1-7 in their inaugural KBO season."(This game) made us all realize the importance of one win," said manager Kim Kyung-moon. "Every player concentrated hard and played good defense, and we had a strong desire to win."The Dinos had come close to beating
April 12, 2013
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Lee resumes chase for HR record
DAEGU (Yonhap News) ― With one swing of the bat Wednesday night, Lee Seung-yeop, a veteran slugger with the Samsung Lions in the Korea Baseball Organization, sent an emphatic message across the league: Look out, pitchers. Here comes the “Lion King.”Lee, 36, belted his first home run of the 2013 season against the Hanwha Eagles, as his three-run shot off Denny Bautista helped the Lions win the game 4-0 at home here in Daegu. This was the Lions’ sixth game of the season.Lee finally resumed his cha
April 11, 2013
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Lynn overpowers Reds with 10 Ks
ST. LOUIS (AP) ― Mitchell Boggs watched TV with his wife and played with the dog, anything to get his mind off an inept outing in the St. Louis Cardinals’ home opener. It can’t be understated how happy the right-hander was to get right back on the mound.A day after the stand-in closer was the goat of the Reds’ nine-run ninth inning, Boggs retired Cincinnati in order to close out a 5-1 victory Tuesday night.“Anybody who’s gone through it knows how important it is to get back out there quick,” Bog
April 10, 2013
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KBO revives territorial draft
The nation’s top baseball league announced Tuesday it will revive an old draft system to let teams select local talent.Starting this year, teams in the Korea Baseball Organization will enter the territorial draft. This type of draft had been used from the start of the KBO in 1982 to 2008. It was replaced by an open draft with a reverse-record order, in which the team with the worst record in the previous season had the first overall pick and could select any player, regardless of his regional ba
April 9, 2013
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Louisville rolls to NCAA title
ATLANTA (AP) ― Rick Pitino capped the greatest week of his life with the prize he wanted most of all.Luke Hancock produced another huge game off the bench, scoring 22 points, and Pitino became the first coach to win national titles at two schools when relentless Louisville rallied from another 12-point deficit to beat Michigan 82-76 in the NCAA championship game Monday night.This title came on the same day Pitino was announced as a member of the latest Hall of Fame class, a couple of days after
April 9, 2013
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Choo makes amends
ST. LOUIS (AP) ― Brandon Phillips kick-started a nine-run ninth inning with a tiebreaking bloop double and Choo Shin-soo made amends for two botched fly balls with a three-run double, and the Cincinnati Reds spoiled the St. Louis Cardinals’ home opener with a 13-4 victory on Monday.Mitchell Boggs (0-1), the stand-in closer for St. Louis, yielded six runs while getting only one out and the Cardinals needed four more pitchers to get out of the inning. Only a few thousand fans remained of the large
April 9, 2013
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Ryu gets 1st MLB win
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Ryu Hyun-Jin is going to enjoy pitching for a team with the menacing lineup the Los Angeles Dodgers possess, and the hitters have become equally confident with the rotation that’s backing them up.The South Korean earned his first major league victory, shrugging off a two-run homer in the first inning by Andrew McCutchen and pitching the Dodgers past the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-2 Sunday for a three-game sweep. Adrian Gonzalez drove in four runs with three hits and Justin Sellers h
April 8, 2013
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S. Korean pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin earns first major league win
LOS ANGELES -- South Korean pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin of the Los Angeles Dodgers earned his first victory in Major League Baseball (MLB) on Sunday. In his second career start at Dodger Stadium, Ryu pitched 6 1/3 strong innings and allowed two runs on three hits and two walks against the Pittsburgh Pirates, as the Dodgers won the game 6-2.The Dodgers improved to 4-2, while the Pirates fell to 1-5. Ryu, who also struck out six batters, is the eighth South Korean pitcher to record a win in the
April 8, 2013
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Bashing away
CINCINNATI (AP) ― Ian Desmond slapped his hands together as hard as he could when he approached home plate, about to score the go-ahead run in the 11th inning.His rough day was ending with a very good moment.Desmond made two errors that helped the Cincinnati Reds take the game to extra innings, then led off the 11th with his first home run of the season, rallying the Washington Nationals to a 7-6 victory Saturday.“A lot of mixed feelings right now,” Desmond said.Great American Ball Park can do t
April 7, 2013
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New foreign pitchers off to mixed starts in KBO
New foreign pitchers in the Korea Baseball Organization are off to mixed starts in the 2013 season, with some showing promise for the future and others struggling to make a good first impression.The KBO teams are each allowed to sign two foreign players. The NC Dinos, an expansion team playing in their first KBO season, have been granted an extra roster spot for a non-Korean player in a special exception, and all of their three foreigners are pitchers.The eight other teams have used all of their
April 5, 2013