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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Govt. asks hospitals to mitigate impact of medical professors' absence
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S. Korea's working-age population to dip nearly 10m by 2044 amid low births
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Doggy patrol team on the move to protect their cities
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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LG’s G6 sales begin modestly on impeachment day
LG Electronics’ newest flagship smartphone G6 hit market shelves here Friday as planned, despite the nation being mostly engrossed in the news of the confirmation of former President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment.LG has vowed to seek a turnaround in its mobile communications business with the latest G6, but inquiries about the new product on the first day of its official launch turned out to lag market expectations, especially in the morning when the court ruling was televised nationwide. Rather t
March 10, 2017
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Kakao Pay further extends bank account transfer service
South Korean mobile messaging giant Kakao has introduced a new direct bank account transfer function on its simplified mobile payment platform Kakao Pay, further expanding the scope of its mobile-friendly money transfer service. Kakao said Thursday that it has added the “to account” money transfer function on Kakao Pay -- directly accessible via the mobile messaging app KakaoTalk -- which lets users transfer money directly to any local bank account. (Kakao)Kakao Pay is a simplified mobile payme
March 9, 2017
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Samsung mulls moving Mexico plant to US
Samsung Electronics is considering the relocation of its manufacturing facilities for home appliances from Mexico to the United States, a senior Samsung official confirmed Thursday. At a media event to introduce the company’s latest premium model washing machine, dubbed “Flex Wash,” Suh Byung-sam, executive vice president of the digital appliances business of the consumer electronics division at Samsung, admitted that the company is seriously reviewing such a plan at the moment. “The company is
March 9, 2017
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Obesity sharply raises risk for kidney disease
Obesity sharply increases the risk of developing chronic kidney failure, a report said Thursday, urging obese people to undergo regular testing to prevent the disease.In the report released to mark World Kidney Day, the Korean Society of Nephrology said chronic kidney disease has been found to be 3.8 times more likely to develop in super obese people with a body mass index of 35 or higher. (Yonhap)The prevalence of kidney disease for super obese people stands at 25.2 percent, compared to the cor
March 9, 2017
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SKT’s 5G roaming technology to be studied by NGMN
SK Telecom’s core 5G roaming technology has won approval to be studied this year by Next Generation Mobile Networks, the South Korean mobile carrier said Wednesday. NGMN is an international organization established by 28 telecom companies around the world in 2006 to discuss the standardization of wireless network infrastructure and telecom services. SK Telecom's logo (Yonhap)SKT’s technology is one of four chosen technologies out of 20 proposed by other telecom companies. The Korean mobile carr
March 8, 2017
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Samsung launches more efficient, accurate LED module
Samsung Electronics announced Wednesday it has launched a light-emitting diode module based on a fine chip scale package. Named “T Type 2.5 Generation,” the new LED module will be applied in outdoor lighting in tunnels and on streets. Samsung’s Chip Scale Package, known as CSP, is the company’s flagship package of chips for designing tiny electronics products. Users can achieve brightness a nd a color temperature of up to 5,700 Kelvin by combining more than two of the new LED modules. T Type 2.5
March 8, 2017
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KT to introduce new insurance program that rewards healthy lifestyles
South Korean mobile carrier KT has partnered with Nonghyup Life Insurance to introduce a new digital health care-based insurance program that offers benefits to a customer based on his or her fitness achievements tracked by wearable devices.The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday, agreeing to merge KT’s Internet of Things technology and big data management capabilities with Nonghyup Life Insurance’s insurance package planning and marketing expertise. A woman wearing a fi
March 8, 2017
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Apple captures 79% of global smartphone profits last year
Apple Inc. captured 79.2 percent of global smartphone profits last year, according to the latest research by Strategy Analytics on Wednesday, highlighting the US technology giant's ability to maximize pricing and minimize production costs. The global smartphone industry was estimated to have posted total operating profits of $53.7 billion last year, with Apple's operating profit standing at $44.9 billion, the research showed.Apple's Iphone (Yonhap)Apple's operating profit margin stood at 32.4 pe
March 8, 2017
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Google to add more languages to AI translation system
Google Inc. said Tuesday that it will add more languages to its new artificial intelligence translation system and significantly improve quality and reduce errors of services offered.In November, the US Internet giant announced that Google Translate has been switched to a new system called Neural Machine Translation, an end-to-end learning framework that learns from millions of examples.A person trying out Google Translate on his smartphone (Yonhap)"Over the next couple of weeks, these improveme
March 7, 2017
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Cisco to step up research team for Korea-targeted security threats
Bret Hartman, chief technology officer of the security business group of Cisco, Tuesday said his company is in the process of enhancing its research team for security threats, specifically targeting Korean businesses and organizations amid the recently escalating threats to the country. Cisco has a research team of over 250 experts on information security, data science and hacking, known as Talos, which detects and defends from more than 200 million attacks on a daily basis. “We do not currently
March 7, 2017
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China denies new licenses for Korean games over THAAD: reports
China has reportedly stopped issuing new service licenses to South Korean games in an apparent retaliation against Seoul’s latest preparations to install a US missile defense system in Korea. According to Korean media outlets Tuesday, the Chinese government informed local game publishers earlier this month that it would no longer issue licenses — which a company needs in order to service a game in China — for Korea-made games. The measure is “likely related to Korea’s deployment of the Terminal
March 7, 2017
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Line Friends to open first character store in US
Line Friends, the character merchandising unit of Naver-owned mobile messenger Line, will open its first official store in the US at Times Square in New York City in July, the company said Monday.The upcoming store, spanning 430 square meters, will be located on 1515 Broadway, which houses the renowned “Lion King” musical.It will be the first-ever large-scale Asian character brand store to open in the US and will also commemorate the one-year anniversary of Line’s public listing on the New York
March 7, 2017
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Samsung predicted to invest $12.5 billion in chips
The world’s largest memory chip maker Samsung Electronics is expected to make the biggest investment in the global semiconductor market this year, a market research firm said on Tuesday. According to the US research firm IC Insights, Samsung Electronics’ capital expenditure on semiconductors this year is expected to be 14.5 trillion won ($12.5 billion), 11 percent higher than last year’s investment. The Korean tech giant is slated to complete the world’s largest chip complex in Pyeongtaek, with
March 7, 2017
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R&D center for rechargeable batteries opens in southern Korea
A research and development center for rechargeable batteries opened at a state-run university in Ulsan on Tuesday.The Battery R&D Center at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, located 414 kilometers southeast of Seoul, will focus on making future battery cells for smartphones, small information technology devices and automobiles. The Battery R&D Center opened at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology on March 7, 2017. (Ulsan National Institute of Science and T
March 7, 2017
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Toshiba informs SK hynix of new plan to sell stake in memory chip business
Japan's Toshiba Corp. has informed SK hynix Inc. of its new plan to sell stakes in its memory chip business, the South Korean company said Monday.SK hynix submitted a non-binding bid last month to acquire a stake in Toshiba's chip business. The logo of SK hynix (Yonhap)In a regulatory filing, SK hynix said it will make an announcement when it decides to make a final bid. In January, Toshiba said it would sell a roughly 20 percent stake in its memory operations as it struggles with multibillion d
March 6, 2017
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Samsung Galaxy S8 revealed to partners at MWC
Samsung Electronics’ upcoming smartphone Galaxy S8 received a favorable response from its global partners after the company unveiled it to them during the Mobile World Congress last week, according to local news reports. During the four days from Feb. 27, the Korean tech giant reportedly disclosed its prototype Galaxy S8 to its partners including telecom operators around the world at Hotel Porta Fira, which is located near the Fira Gran Via where the Mobile World Congress took place. (Samsung El
March 6, 2017
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SK Innovation set to expand EV battery capacity
SK Innovation Co., the country's top oil refiner, said Monday that its board of directors has approved a proposal to double the company's electric vehicle battery production capacity, in order to meet growing demand.The proposal calls for the construction of two EV battery production lines, which will churn out EV cells with a combined 2 GWh, larger than its current 1.9 GWh capacity. SK Innovation's electric vehicle battery plant in Seosan, South Korea (Yonhap file photo)The construction of the
March 6, 2017
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LG to upgrade G4, V10 with latest OS
Korean smartphone maker LG Electronics said Saturday it will update its two smartphones G4 and V10 with the latest operating system.“We plan to offer the upgrade of the operating system with Android 7.0 for the V10 in the second half of this year and for the G4 in the third quarter,” the company said in its statement. V10 smartphones in a photo provided by LG Electronics Co. (Yonhap)The schedule applies to phones sold in South Korea. Consumers in the global market will be informed later.The G4,
March 5, 2017
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[Health-tech Korea] Tomocube’s light microscope enables realtime, 3-D observation of live cells
The Korea Herald is publishing a series of articles highlighting South Korea’s promising start-ups in the emerging sectors of digital health care and next-generation medical devices. This is the third installment. – Ed.DAEJEON — A medical device startup born from an applied physics lab at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology is out to introduce a next-generation 3-D microscope that uses light to observe living cells in real time.Founded in 2015, Tomocube has developed a new hol
March 5, 2017
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LG to update G4, V10 with new operating system
LG Electronics Co. of South Korea said Saturday it will update two of its smartphone models -- the G4 and V10 -- with the latest operating system (OS), reversing its earlier decision. It cited the “respect for consumers‘ rights to choose.” LG plans to offer the upgrade of the OS with Android 7.0 for the V10 in the second half of this year and for the G4 in the third quarter. The schedule applies to phones sold in South Korea, with consumers abroad to be notified of a separate schedule later. The
March 4, 2017