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Samsung Life earnings more than double in 2010
Apr 21, 2011
Samsung Life Insurance Co., South Korea'
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top life insurer, said Thursday that its earnings more than doubled in fiscal 2010 from a year earlier thanks to investment gains from its securities holding...urities holdings due to accounting reasons, the company said. As of the end of March, Samsung Life'
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total assets amounted to 146.34 trillion won, up from 133.05 trillion won a year earlier, it added...
8 out of 10 Internet surfers using SNS: Nielsen
Technology
Apr 21, 2011
...ms, Cyworld ranked most popular with 74.9 percent of respondents using it, followed by Twitter (31.9 percent) and Facebook (31.8 percent). Domestic providers marked a relatively low percentage: Naver’
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me2day had 17.0 percent, Nate Connecting, 6.6 percent , and Cyworld C Log, 4.4 percent. In the survey, 76 percent of respondents said that “communication and interaction with friends” are the main ...
2 Western photojournalists killed in Libya
World News
Apr 21, 2011
...in war photography. Many circumstances of the incident were unclear. A statement from Hetherington'
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family said he was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade. The Washington Post reported that the jo...into people'
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living room and put it into the movie theaters, and get people to connect with it. It'
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not necessarily about moral outrage. It'
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. Korean commercial vessel loses contact in Somali waters: official
Foreign affairs
Apr 21, 2011
South Korea'
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Hanjin Shipping container carrier with 14 South Koreans aboard lost contact with its company Thursday (Korean time) as it was sailing in the pirate-infested waters off Somalia, an official said. The 75,000-ton container ship had departed from Spain for Singapore, the foreign ministry official said. "The ship made its last communications at around 5 a.m.," the official said, refusi...
Korea to halt old reactor for security check
Industry
Apr 20, 2011
...s at the Gori nuclear power plant are spurring concerns over the life span extension of the country’
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atomic facilities. In a separate event, the government and ruling Grand National Party agreed to ...a, since the Japan disaster. German Chancellor Angela Merkel last month put on hold the government’
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plans to prolong the lifespan of the country’
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nuclear power plants, pending the outcome of an inq...
Panel agrees on legal reform bill
Politics
Apr 20, 2011
...ledged to obligate law school graduates to a six-month probationary period after passing the lawyer’
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exam before opening their own offices. Currently, they are under no such obligation, which has pr...ernship in the judiciary, prosecution and law firms before graduation. The parliamentary committee’
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vigorous moves on these two issues, however, came after the members earlier failed to reach agreem...
‘U.
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. military closely monitors N. Korea moves’: Gen. Johnson
Politics
Apr 20, 2011
The commander of the Eighth U.
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. Army here said Wednesday that there have been no unusual North Korean movements detected recently, underscoring that the allied troops are closely monitoring them. “...han we have ever been ― the way we share information for the capabilities of the ROK military and U.
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. military.” Touching on the concerns over the possible security gaps when the U.
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. troops are pre...
Indonesia to join fighter jet project
Politics
Apr 20, 2011
Indonesia has signed an agreement to join South Korea’
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project to develop a new fighter jet, officials at Seoul’
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weapons acquisition agency said Wednesday. Under the agreement, Indonesia’
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state-run defense research institute, “Balitbang,” will participate in the technology development process for the KF-X project, also known as the “Boramae” project. According to the deal, Balitbang will pay...
Seoul mayor hints at presidential bid
Social affairs
Apr 20, 2011
...Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon hinted at his bid for the presidency next year on an official visit to the U.
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. this week. “Korea is facing a very critical moment now. Considering the flexible political envir... expressed his opinions on North Korean issues during a conversation with Joseph Nye, a prominent U.
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. political analyst and professor at Harvard University on Tuesday. “The current government’
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aid-...
[April 27 By-elections] Much at stake in wealthy satellite town
Politics
Apr 20, 2011
... commuters to the capital, their families and elderly people who moved mostly from the ruling party’
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stronghold of Gangnam. The main opposition Democratic Party decided at the last minute to field i...hn is more popular among people in their 20
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, while Kang is favored by those in their 50
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and older. Political observers believe the election results will depend on Wednesday’
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voter turn...
N.K. imported truckloads of gifts for elite: report
North Korea
Apr 20, 2011
A long convoy of lorries believed to be carrying gifts for North Korea’
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elite was seen entering the communist state on the eve of a major holiday, according to a South Korean Internet newspaper. The Daily NK, staffed by anti-Pyongyang activists, said Tuesday it had received video footage of more than 200 trucks crossing the Yalu River nose-to-tail from China on April 14. The North celebrates t...
N. Korea detains two Japanese men: report
North Korea
Apr 20, 2011
...economic zone last month, but it later released one man, a news report said Wednesday. The three Japanese employees of a machine maintenance firm in Tokyo visited the city of Rason, near North Korea’
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border with Russia, in March to check machines at a food manufacturing factory, Japan’
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Asahi Shimbun newspaper said, citing unidentified sources. They were detained on charges that they hid drugs in canned goods to be exported to China, though the North later allowed one of them to r...
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. Korean man guilty of retweeting N.K. messages
Politics
Apr 20, 2011
A South Korean man received a suspended jail term Tuesday for retweeting messages from North Korea’
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official website in the first such case since the communist state launched a cyber propaganda camp...entified only as Cho a two-year jail sentence, suspended for three years, for violating South Korea’
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security law. The man was convicted of retweeting material from the North’
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Twitter feed (http://...
North Korean taekwondo masters to perform in U.
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Politics
Apr 20, 2011
...taekwondo performers will visit the United States from late next month through early June to present the Korean traditional martial art to an American audience, according to the Voice of America, a U.
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.-funded radio broadcaster. It will be their second performance in the U.
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. following one in 2007. According to the Taekwondo Times, an online media outlet, the U.
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. Department of State has already notified the North Korean group that their visas have been issued, the VOA...
Regional powers wary of N.K. militancy
North Korea
Apr 20, 2011
Seoul’
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intelligence chief says Pyongyang could conduct nuke test any time North Korea could conduct another atomic test “whenever it wants,” South Korea’
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spy chief said this week, adding to securi...s “to turn the table” should it fail to rejoin the six-party dialogue at an early date, South Korea’
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spy chief Won said. Another senior official at Seoul’
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Unification Ministry, which specializes in...
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