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Seoul vows action over Naver's Line, Yahoo dispute
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[KH Explains] Hyundai Motor’s plan for new landmark keeps hitting bumps
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[Grace Kao] American racism against Stray Kids
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Key S. Korean, USFK special operations officials to hold rare meeting amid NK threats
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Samsung doubles down on Vietnam
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NewJeans' members' parents complained to Hybe, email shows
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In Beijing, S. Korean top diplomat aims to jumpstart ties with China
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Controversy brews over shakeup of prosecutors amid probe of first lady
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Suspect behind murder of Korean tourist in Pattaya arrested
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Prosecutors summon pastor involved in Dior bag scandal
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Hyundai, Kia make early payments to suppliers
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. announced Thursday that about 850 billion won ($760 million) owed to suppliers will be paid ahead of the due dates.The carmakers said that the payments will be made starting Jan. 26 to ease suppliers’ cash flow ahead of Seollal, or the New Year according to the lunar calendar. According to the carmakers, about 1,200 companies supplying parts and materials wil
IndustryJan. 20, 2011
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POSCO finalizes ferrochrome deal with Indian firm
POSCO announced Thursday that it finalized a deal to establish a joint venture producing ferrochrome with an Indian company.Ferrochrome is an alloy of chromium and iron used in stainless steel production. POSCO’s partner in the venture is Indian Metals and Ferro Alloys (IMFA), India’s biggest ferrochrome manufacturer. According to POSCO, Thursday’s deal finalizes agreements regarding a joint ventu
IndustryJan. 20, 2011
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Meat imports to climb on foot-and-mouth cull
Pork and beef imports by Korea, the sixth-biggest buyer of U.S. pork in 2009, may climb this year as the nation culls swine and cattle to fight its worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, an industry group said. Pork imports may jump 15 percent to 20 percent from about 179,500 metric tons in 2010, said Choi Jong Sun, chairman of the Korea Meat Import Association. Beef purchases may also gain as
IndustryJan. 20, 2011
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Etihad Airways sees rising travel demand
Korea unit chief says emerging markets will drive growth in demandEtihad Airways, a national airline of the United Arab Emirates, is confident that the growth of the middle class in emerging markets and booming industrial projects in the Middle East will lure more travelers to the region.As one of the fastest-growing international carriers,the airline has expanded services to 66 destinations acros
IndustryJan. 20, 2011
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FDR tops list of successful U.S. presidents
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, has been voted the most successful of all time among U.S. presidents.According to the BBC report, the poll was conducted by U.K. academics on U.S. presidential performance and was published by the U.S. Presidency Center of the Institute for the Study of Americas on Monday. Roosevelt was the nation's 32n
PeopleJan. 20, 2011
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Sean, Jung to sponsor 100 Third-World kids
Singer Sean and his wife, actress Jung Hye-young, have pledged to sponsor an additional 100 children through Compassion Korea on Tuesday.The couple has been giving support to 100 children, including six Haitians, in 26 countries. The additional sponsorships bring the total number of children supported to 200. They began sponsoring needy children around the world three years ago. Sean and his wife
PeopleJan. 20, 2011
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Korea-Israel association greetings
The Korea-Israel Friendship Association held new year greetings and a membership party at the Diplomacy Center on the 12th floor of Forever Leader’s in Yangjae-dong, Seoul, on Jan. 18.Israeli Amb. Tuvia Israeli said the two countries have being steadily developing their cultural exchanges and that many Koreans have visited Israel as part of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. (From left) Ofer Fohrer,
PeopleJan. 20, 2011
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[Editorial] Obama, Hu on N.K.
As expected, U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao addressed two issues concerning North Korea during their summit on Wednesday ― its hostility against South Korea and its nuclear weapons program. They made agreements in broad terms. But their post-summit remarks provided no indication that they agreed to take any concrete steps with regard to the two issues.At a joint
EditorialJan. 20, 2011
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[Editorial] Missile talks
South Korea has recently started negotiations with the United States on extending the range of its ballistic missiles beyond the permitted 300 kilometers. The talks, though belated, should be welcomed. Still better, the United States is reportedly more receptive to South Korean demands than in the past.South Korea’s efforts to develop a new generation of ballistic missiles as a deterrent against N
EditorialJan. 20, 2011
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Growing demand for high-tech health care
Healthsense, a technology company based just outside Minneapolis, uses wireless sensors to provide an early warning system for health problems among the elderly or frail. The sensors send out an alert when they detect trouble ― a fall, for example, or a significant change in sleep patterns. Demand for this kind of innovation is soaring, and companies are responding with a host of new products that
ViewpointsJan. 20, 2011
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[Gregory Rodriguez] Politics’ dark passions
Once you get a look at the evil smirk captured by the mug shot of Jared Lee Loughner, it’s hard to believe that mere heated political rhetoric was the decisive factor in his allegedly pulling the trigger over and over and over again.But that doesn’t mean there’s no link between politics and violence, or even, to some degree, mental illness.A psychologist will tell you that plenty of factors may pu
ViewpointsJan. 20, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Help is there if sought for the mentally ill
WASHINGTON ― But what should we do about the mentally ill who walk among us, stumbling toward what may be violent confrontations with authority? That question was asked by dozens of readers after a column last week about our inability to stop an obviously unstable Jared Lee Loughner on his way to the rampage in Tucson. The anguished e-mails were a reminder that milder versions of the Tucson traged
ViewpointsJan. 20, 2011
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[Alden C. Mayfield] Asian and Euro-American economic crises
When the needles of greed, corruption, and cronyism popped the economic bubbles of Asia between 1997-98, much of the Western world gloated and wasted little time in criticizing irrational Asians for their lack of financial transparency in borrowing and expanding beyond their means. From their mighty computers, some Euro-Americans thought it was self-evident that Asians were not only irrational, bu
ViewpointsJan. 20, 2011
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[Doyle McManus] A nuclear Iran around the corner? Not so fast
After years of warning that an Iranian atomic bomb is right around the corner, Israeli officials now say Iran is at least four years away from deploying a nuclear weapon, maybe more. And Obama administration officials agree, although they shy away from endorsing a specific time frame. “We’ve gained some breathing space,” a senior U.S. official told me last week. “The good news is that we have slow
ViewpointsJan. 20, 2011
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[Joel Brinkley] A popular uprising ... but then what?
Across much of the world, including most every Middle Eastern state, citizens and some national leaders are cheering the fall of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia’s longtime dictator. They are voicing the fervent hope that Tunisia’s revolution will be the first of many dominoes to fall. My advice: Be careful what you wish for.Arab commentators and others, tapping a wellspring of popular d
ViewpointsJan. 20, 2011
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Authorities charge abortion doctor with murder
The Women's Medical Society in Philadelphia, is shown Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. (AP)PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ A doctor who gave abortions to minorities, immigrants and poor women in a ``house of horrors'' clinic was charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, made mil
InternationalJan. 20, 2011
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Prostate-shrinking drug may help cancer detection
A drug commonly used to shrink enlarged prostate glands also increases the accuracy of the test used to detect aggressive forms of prostate cancer, Washington University researchers have found.Dr. Gerald Andriole, chief of urologic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, said a four-year study confirms that men who used the drug Avodart (the generic form is called dutasteride) receive
Arts & DesignJan. 20, 2011
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Experts give tips on how to keep a fitter 2011 in sight
Another new year, another ― fill in the blank ― doughnut ditched, gym membership bought, resolution made, cute workout top purchased.A few weeks into January, though, resolve has a tendency to subside. Even those with the best of intentions sometimes stand at the foot of the fitness mountain. Unused gym cards remain in sweaty little hands, price tags are still attached to moisture-wicking fabric s
Arts & DesignJan. 20, 2011
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Cervical myelopathy hard to detect
A 65-year-old lady suffered walking difficulties for about five months. She visited five hospitals but was not diagnosed with any specific disease. Her symptoms only continued to get worse and finally she could not walk. An MRI scan found that her spinal cord was squeezed by a narrow spinal canal and multiple disc herniation in the cervical spine. This is called cervical myelopathy. Patients with
Arts & DesignJan. 20, 2011