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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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Samsung trumps Apple in Japan patent fight
TOKYO (Yonhap News) ― A Japanese court said Tuesday that Apple Inc.’s patent infringement claim against Samsung Electronics Co. is invalid, giving the upper hand to the South Korean tech giant in a series of legal battles over patents, a Japanese news agency reported.Upholding a lower court’s verdict, the Intellectual Property High Court ruled that Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone maker, did not infringe upon Apple’s technology on transferring media content from computers to smartphones a
June 25, 2013
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Galaxy S4 twice as fast as iPhone 5: report
Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S4 is the fastest smartphone among the best-selling brands in the market, according to a test by U.K.’s watchdog released on Tuesday.The organization named ”Which?“ used a speed-testing system called Geekbench to evaluate the processing and memory speed of seven representative cell phone brands.Galaxy S4, ranked at the top, scored 3,188 points while Apple’s iPhone5 scored 1,664, ranking at the bottom with its score barely reaching half that of Samsung.“If a phone has
June 25, 2013
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Kakao Talk collecting MAC address stirs controversy
Kakao Talk, the nation’s top mobile messenger, is generating controversy over its PC version, which collects the MAC addresses of users’ devices, according to IT sources on Tuesday.The beta version of the Kakao PC platform was released on June 20 and users can download and install the program on their desktops after going through a sign-up and authentication process. MAC, or media access control, is an alpha-numeric address assigned to each PC connected to the Internet. Collecting MAC address co
June 25, 2013
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Tokyo high court upholds Samsung win against Apple
A Tokyo high court has upheld a lower court's ruling that Samsung did not infringe on Apple's patent for synchronizing music and data across devices.Apple asked for 100 million yen ($ 1 million) in damages, but the Tokyo District Court ruled in Samsung's favor last August. The Intellectual Property High Court in Tokyo upheld that decision Tuesday.This appeal case is one of many legal battles between the technology giants. The court decision comes after Apple won a separate patent infringement ca
June 25, 2013
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Research center opens for space rocket
The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning is opening a new research center for the development of the country’s first domestically produced space rocket this week.Located at the state-run Korea Aerospace Research Institute in Daejeon, the center will conduct cooperative research with related industries to design and develop a 75-ton thrust rocket engine. The opening ceremony is scheduled for Monday, the ministry said.Korea is pushing to develop its own three-stage space rocket, the KSLV-2
June 23, 2013
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Samsung unveils Ativ Q, Galaxy S4 Mini in London
The Galaxy S4 Mini and the Ativ Q tablet were among the smartphones and tablet PCs that Samsung Electronics unveiled in London on Thursday, the company said. The main attraction was the new 13.3-inch convertible laptop Ativ Q with dual-booting technology allowing users to operate on both Windows 8 and Android 4.2.2 operating systems. Data can be synced and shared between the two, while the flexible hinge allows users to convert the Ativ Q from tablet mode to laptop mode and position the screen a
June 21, 2013
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Tokyo court backs Apple against Samsung on patent
Apple Inc. has won a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. in a Japanese court, one of dozens of legal battles around the world between the technology giants.The Tokyo District Court issued a partial verdict Friday in favor of Apple. Damages were not announced. The court said in a summary that further examination is needed to determine if Samsung must pay compensation, and if so, how much. A final verdict is expected later.Apple and Samsung are embroiled in similar battles
June 21, 2013
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Beware of infections during rainy season
With the monthlong rainy season having arrived this week, pay attention to your health, as the high humidity and temperature makes dangerous viruses more active.“Atmospheric temperature and humidity provide an ideal condition for bacteria and viruses to grow in food and water,” an official at the Korea Centers for Disease Control said.“The people should pay more attention to food they eat and the water they drink. Wash your hands as frequently as possible,” he added. The most common illnesses d
June 20, 2013
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Local scientists find way to prevent alcohol damage to liver
A team of South Korean scientists has discovered a way to prevent alcohol damaging the liver, the Science Ministry said Wednesday.It has been widely documented that alcohol leads to the creation of reactive oxygen species in the body, which in turn damage the liver, causing hepatitis or even liver cirrhosis, according to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning.However, little had been known about exactly what triggers the production of reactive oxygen.According to the ministry, the team
June 20, 2013
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New MERS virus spreads easily, deadlier than SARS
LONDON (AP) ― A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after investigating the biggest outbreak in Saudi Arabia.More than 60 cases of what is now called MERS, including 38 deaths, have been recorded by the World Health Organization in the past year, mostly in Saudi Arabia. So far, illnesses haven’t spread as quickly as SARS did in 2003, ultimately triggering a global outbreak
June 20, 2013
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Wetting the bed
Nocturnal enuresis means bed-wetting at night. It is very common in children and is present in approximately 15 percent of children 5 and under. It generally goes away as children get older, and is only present in 1 percent of adolescents. CausesThere are three main causes. The first is an immature bladder function. These children often have problems holding urine even in the daytime, and can wet their clothes. The second reason is increased urine production during the night, compared to during
June 20, 2013
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Top smartphone makers consider water-cooled tech
Overheating of smartphones is increasingly becoming a problem as users worldwide stay connected longer and more frequently with high-speed fourth-generation Long Term Evolution services. In response, some of the top smartphone makers are expected to incorporate a high-precision water-cooled pipe technology into future devices, according to cooling module manufacturers.Samsung Electronics, Apple and HTC have recently shown interest in adopting the new cooling technology for their future models. T
June 20, 2013
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KakaoTalk launches PC version
Korea’s most-used mobile messenger Kakao Talk on Thursday launched an open beta service for its PC version.Kakao announced the availability of the PC version to the applicants who had not been selected for the closed beta test earlier this year by sending an email.Users who received the email can access the PC version by downloading the program from the Kakao website and going through a verification process. The user interface of the desktop version resembles the mobile version, allowing users t
June 20, 2013
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Korea's mobile phone replacement rate highest among major OECD countries
South Korea's cell phone replacement rate is the highest among major OECD countries as local mobile carriers' fat subsidies and aggressive marketing lure customers to change their gadgets frequently, a report said Thursday.About 15 million South Koreans, or 28 percent of mobile phone users in the country, replace their handsets every year, according to the report compiled by DigiEco, a research unit of KT Corp.The mobile replacement rate is the highest among major OECD countries, the report said
June 20, 2013
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Dell Korea pledges to better communicate
“We feel that Dell Korea has not been able to communicate its product in the best way we could, and we want to start doing that,” said Kim Sung-jun, director of Dell Korea’s Enterprise Solutions Group.On Tuesday, Kim was introducing the company’s new network solutions, an area that despite taking up a large part of the portfolio ― over 50 percent ― of a firm that was once built around PCs. In fact, it was a start-up built on PCs, but today, Dell wants to be known as a top-notch solution provider
June 19, 2013
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Why mobile should be a top priority for execs
Today everyone is talking about mobile ― and the mobile revolution has created a new energy and excitement across industries and markets around the globe. In my travels, I meet with customers who are either moving to a mobile business strategy, are wondering if they are moving fast enough, or are overwhelmed by the challenges and the opportunities this sea change represents for their organization. These clients recognize that they have to embrace mobile to succeed as industries are being transfo
June 19, 2013
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Frequency spat escalates after KT requests bandwidth
The ongoing battle between the nation’s three mobile carriers ― KT Corp., SK Telecom and LG Uplus ― reached fever pitch this week following a request from KT to the government to put a desirable LTE frequency on sale so KT may purchase it.“It would be an undeserving privilege for KT,” said its rival SKT in a statement on Wednesday. The frequency that KT hopes to own is directly adjacent to its current frequency of 1.8 GHz, which would free KT from having to spend time and money building a broadb
June 19, 2013
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Health disparity widens between rich and poor: study
Cancer patients from high-income families have a much higher survival rate than their low-income counterparts, a report showed Tuesday.According to the Korea Institute for Health Affairs, the five-year survival rate of male cancer patients in the top 20 percent income bracket was 37.84 percent, 13.80 percentage points higher than those in the bottom 20 percent. Three-year and one-year survival rates of patients from the two income groups also differed by 14.32 percentage points and 14.69 percent
June 18, 2013
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Cisco to release new core router for soaring online traffic
In an effort to respond to rapidly increasing Internet traffic, Cisco Systems Korea announced on Tuesday that it would release a new core routing system at the end of this year.In a report released in May, the U.S.-based networking equipment maker predicted that annual global IP traffic would surpass 1.4 zettabytes by the end of 2017 ― a threefold increase from the current traffic. A zettabyte stores 1 billion terabytes of data, or about 250 billion DVDs.In Korea, the IP traffic is expected to d
June 18, 2013
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LG’s Optimus G Pro sales hit 1 million mark in Korea
LG Electronics Inc., the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, said Tuesday that sales of its flagship smartphone, the Optimus G Pro, surpassed the 1 million mark nationwide in four months since its release. The phone is was fastest to reach the figure among its smartphone lineup.Sales of the Optimus G Pro broke 500,000 40 days after its launch, becoming LG Electronics’ fastest-selling smartphone.In May, the tech giant rolled out the smartphone in the U.S. and also released the full HD smartph
June 18, 2013