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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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Defense chiefs of US, Australia, Japan decry NK-Russia military cooperation
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Google office suite to take on MS
Google appeared set for further improvements to make up for the shortfalls of its online office applications to challenge Microsoft in providing a more flexible working environment in the fast-changing business era. Participating at the Google Apps Conference 2013 in Seoul on Friday, Google Enterprise manager Kim Seon-il said, “Google will create an office environment in which people can work anytime and anywhere.”Google provides around 70 web-based applications including Google Drive, Google Do
Aug. 2, 2013
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The rainy season and depression
During the rainy season, the decreased amount of sunlight can cause people to feel depressed. This is similar in mechanism to the development of seasonal depression during autumn and winter when there is a decreased amount of sunlight. However, the duration of the rainy season is shorter, which means that this type of depression is not as severe.Decreased sunlight leads to decreased production of melatonin, a neurotransmitter, which disrupts the circadian rhythm and causes depression. Melatonin
Aug. 1, 2013
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USAID hails breakthroughs in infant, maternal health
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Security Adviser Susan Rice called for more “eureka moments” and “unorthodox partnerships” on Wednesday, as she addressed scientists working on decreasing nfant and maternal mortality in poor countries.Researchers, many of whom were finalists for a competitive USAID grant, came up with varied schemes, including using a football to stop women from bleeding to death after birth, using contaminated hospital waste to keep hands cleaner and engineering bacteria to fortify yogurt wi
Aug. 1, 2013
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LG Uplus open to Apple’s next iPhone
LG Uplus, the third-largest mobile carrier in Korea, said Thursday that the door was wide open for Apple’s next iPhones and iPads as the mobile carrier now fully supported the Long Term Evolution service.At a press meeting Wednesday aboard a Hangang River cruise, LG Uplus CEO Lee Sang-chul said “many leading phone makers from China and Japan are now asking LG Uplus to carry their handsets.” He added that the firm aims to earn recognition as the leading LTE provider through its “single” LTE for v
Aug. 1, 2013
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Monogamy may sound sweet, but why it evolved isn’t
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Only a few species of mammals are monogamous, and now dueling scientific teams think they’ve figured out why they got that way. But their answers aren’t exactly romantic.The answers aren’t even the same.One team looked just at primates, the animal group that includes apes and monkeys. The researchers said the exclusive pairing of a male and a female evolved as a way to let fathers defend their young against being killed by other males.The other scientific team got a different a
Aug. 1, 2013
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Earthquakes trigger undersea methane reservoirs: study
Earthquakes can rip open sub-sea pockets of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, according to a study by German and Swiss scientists published on Sunday.Quake-caused methane should be added to the list of heat-trapping carbon emissions that affect the world‘s climate system, although the scale of this contribution remains unclear, they said.The evidence comes from cores of sediment drilled from the bed of the northern Arabian Sea during a research trip by marine scientists in 2007.One of the
Aug. 1, 2013
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Dongbu Daewoo targets China’s premium market
Dongbu Daewoo Electronics has chosen China as its first overseas target market, with a focus on high-end consumers in key metropolitan areas such as Shanghai and Beijing, the company said Wednesday. “Instead of competing against low-end Chinese products, our aim will be to focus on the premium value of Korean-made products to target mainly the upper-class consumers,” said Kwon Dae-hoon, a spokesperson for Dongbu Daewoo Electronics.The company has been aggressively ramping up marketing after Dong
July 31, 2013
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Samsung said near purchase of German screen firm Novaled
Samsung Group is nearing an agreement to acquire Novaled AG, a German maker of materials used to light up smartphone and television screens, two people with knowledge of the matter said.“We are internally reviewing plans to acquire Novaled, but no details have been set yet,” said Lee Tae-hun, a spokesman for Cheil Industries Inc., the chemical and electronic materials unit of South Korea’s largest conglomerate, in a telephone interview.A deal to buy Novaled for more than $200 million may come as
July 31, 2013
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Samsung SDS out to capture new opportunities
Alfred Koh, one of the few Korean-American IT experts among the top Samsung brass, wants to take the next step forward --and so does his company, Samsung SDS.The first step the company recently took toward the future was, albeit at the urgings of the government, to shift its focus to the overseas markets. The firm was basically edged out of all the financial and government systems integration work on the home turf.But SDS appeared to be prepared, since the move was immediately followed up by a c
July 31, 2013
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Are pigs smart like dogs?
NEW YORK (AP) ― There’s extensive evidence that pigs are as smart and sociable as dogs. Yet one species is afforded affection and respect; the other faces mass slaughter en route to becoming bacon, ham and pork chops.Seeking to capitalize on that discrepancy, animal-welfare advocates are launching a campaign called the Someone Project that aims to highlight research depicting pigs, chickens, cows and other farm animals as more intelligent and emotionally complex than commonly believed. The hope
July 31, 2013
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Debates loom over how to handle digital legacy
As South Koreans are generating more digital footprints thanks to the country’s powerful digital infrastructure, managing one’s online legacy following death is becoming a thorny issue for family members and online service providers. Digital legacy refers to personal data including texts, pictures and video clips that a user leaves behind in cyberspace. “We remove a deceased user’s ID on request of a bereaved family but the surviving members cannot access other personal data including passwords,
July 30, 2013
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Samsung is said to be near purchase of Germany's Novaled
Samsung Group, the world's largest smartphone maker, is close to an agreement to acquire Novaled AG, a German maker of materials used to light up smartphone and television screens, said two people familiar with the transaction. An agreement for the South Korean company to buy Novaled for more than $200 million may come as soon as this week, according to one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. Novaled is ased in Dresden, Germany. The neg
July 30, 2013
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[Graphic News] Korea has priciest phones
According to Strategy Analytics, South Korea’s average sale price for mobile phones was $415 per handset last year, becoming the most expensive in the world. It attributed the high price to the high proportion of sales taken up by premium-level smartphones.
July 29, 2013
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Samsung topples Apple as most profitable phone maker
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest smartphone maker, dethroned Apple Inc. as the most profitable phone maker by posting the biggest operating income during the second quarter, also becoming the sector’s most profitable vendor, industry data showed on Monday.According to the latest data by Strategy Analytics, Samsung became the world’s most profitable handset vendor in the second quarter of the year with $5.2 billion in operating profit for its handset division.Apple, on the other hand,
July 29, 2013
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Mobile phone prices in S. Korea most expensive
Mobile handsets sold in South Korea were more expensive than anywhere else last year as high-priced smartphones accounted for a larger portion of mobile devices sold in the country, data showed on Monday.The average selling price of a mobile phone stood at US$415 in the country last year, compared with the world average of $166, and marked the highest among countries surveyed, according to the data compiled by research firm Strategy Analytics.The average selling price of a mobile phone in Japan
July 29, 2013
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Samsung topples Apple as world's most profitable phone maker
Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest smartphone maker, dethroned Apple Inc. as the most profitable phone maker by posting the biggest operating income during the second quarter, also becoming the sector's most profitable vendor, industry data showed on Monday.According to the latest data by Strategy Analytics, Samsung became the world's most profitable handset vendor in the second quarter of the year with US$5.2 billion in operating profit for its handset division.Apple, on the other han
July 29, 2013
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[Photo News] Phone DIY
July 28, 2013
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Samsung clinches one-third of all smartphone volumes worldwide in Q2
Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest smartphone maker, posted a record shipments in the second quarter of the year, data showed on Friday.According to the data compiled by research firm Strategy Analytics, Samsung Electronics shipped a record 76 million smartphones in the second quarter, compared with 69.4 million in the previous quarter.The South Korean smartphone maker also continued to dominate the global smartphone market in terms of market share, with its stake in the April-June per
July 26, 2013
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SK Innovation swings to black in Q2
SK Innovation Co., the holding company of South Korea's top refiner SK Energy Co., said Friday that it has returned to profit in the second quarter from a year earlier thanks to good performance by its refinery unit.Net income came to 271 billion won (US$243.6 million) in the April-June period, compared with a net loss of 238.4 billion won a year ago, SK Innovation said in a regulatory filing.Sales, however, fell 10.7 percent to 16.85 trillion won in the period, while the company posted an opera
July 26, 2013
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T&I develops pillow for treatment
For those having trouble sleeping at night, a local pillow manufacturer has applied acupressure methods to its new product. T&I said it combined the therapeutic effects of the memory foam pillow and a still point inducer to support one’s cervical spine and improve circulation of cerebrospinal fluid at the same time. While the head is resting on the pillow, raised bumps apply gentle pressure to the atlanto-occipital joint to enhance the flow of cerebrospinal fluid. A substance in cerebrospinal fl
July 25, 2013