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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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[Graphic News] Number of coffee franchises in S. Korea rises 13%
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S. Korean children, teens grow taller, mature faster than before: study
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Some junior doctors are returning: Health Ministry
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Army takes group action against Hybe for neglecting BTS
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[Robert J. Fouser] AI changes rationale for learning languages
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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Woman dangling from power lines rescued by residents holding blanket
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Ador CEO's request for exclusive right to terminate NewJeans' contract with Hybe refused in February
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Scientists grow lens cells in Petri dish
Stem cell researchers from Australia have managed to successfully culture lens cells in a Petri dish, marking a big step toward curing congenital sight impairment.Associate professor Tiziano Barberi and Doctor Isabella Mengarelli from the Monash University have successfully extracted and purified lens epithelium for the first time, and incited the cells to develop into lens cells, according to a report by the university. Lens epithelium refers to the tissue that serves as the progenitors for new
Feb. 5, 2013
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Experts find remains of England's King Richard III
He was king of England, but for centuries he lay without shroud or coffin in an unknown grave, and his name became a byword for villainy.On Monday, scientists announced they had rescued the remains of Richard III from anonymity _ and the monarch's fans hope a revival of his reputation will soon follow.In a dramatically orchestrated news conference, a team of archaeologists, geneticists, genealogists and other scientists from the University of Leicester announced that tests had proven what they s
Feb. 5, 2013
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S. Korea's tax agency probes top Internet portal operator NHN Corp.
South Korea's tax agency has launched an investigation into the nation's top Internet portal operator NHN Corp for the first time since 2007, a company official said Monday.The official said the probe is a regular tax investigation that occurs every four or five years but NHN's first tax probe in 2007 forced the company to pay 1.48 billion won (US$1.3 million) in additional taxes.The 2007 tax probe was the first on NHN since it was founded in 1999.Naver is NHN's flagship Web portal that features
Feb. 4, 2013
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Preschool obesity, food insecurity link
U.S. children whose early years were spent in food insecurity and who have obese mothers are more likely to be obese in preschool, researchers say. Study leader Elizabeth Metallinos-Katsaras of the Department of Nutrition at the Simmons College School of Nursing and Health Sciences in Boston said the research is based on analysis of more than 28,300 low-income children participating in a publicly funded health and nutrition program in Massachusetts, from 2001 to 2006. Household food insecurity w
Feb. 4, 2013
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Midwifes linked to fewer C-sections
Women who give birth at midwife-led birthing centers are less likely to have Caesarean births compared with women in hospitals, U.S. researchers say.The National Birth Center Study II said the rate of Caesarean sections for expecting U.S. mothers escalated over the past two decades."Birth centers are homelike facilities existing within the healthcare system with a program of care designed in the wellness model of pregnancy and birth," Lesley Rathbun, president-elect of the American Association o
Feb. 4, 2013
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Mobile games to be excluded from shutdown system
The Korean government on Monday decided not to extend what is called “the game shutdown system” to mobile games, which run on smartphones and tablet computers.The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced that mobile games will be excluded from the mandatory game shutdown system, which prohibits gamers aged 16 or under from connecting to online games between midnight and 6 a.m., a controversial policy aimed at protecting younger people from
Feb. 4, 2013
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Apple overtakes Samsung in U.S. mobile phone market
Apple Inc. passed Samsung Electronics Co. to become the top mobile phone maker in the U.S. for the first time, scoring a victory in the companies’ battle for global dominance of the mobile-device market.Apple sold 17.7 million mobile phones in the U.S. during the fourth quarter, a 38 percent jump from a year earlier, research firm Strategy Analytics said Friday in a statement. That gave it 34 percent of the market, topping Samsung, which sold 16.8 million handsets for a 32 percent market share.
Feb. 3, 2013
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Facility investment forecast to shrink 1.4%
Facility investment by businesses in South Korea will likely contract for three consecutive years from 2013 as companies remain reluctant to spend in the face of toughened and cloudy market conditions, a survey showed Sunday.Corporate investment in facilities is expected to decline 1.4 percent on-year to a combined 127.9 trillion won ($116.5 billion) this year, according to the survey by the Korea Finance Corp. The survey was conducted on 3,251 businesses across the country.Last year, companies
Feb. 3, 2013
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Wage, income account shortfalls hit record high
South Korea’s wage and income account deficit hit a record high in 2012 as local companies paid more for foreign workers here than income brought in by Korean laborers working overseas, data showed Sunday.According to the data by the Bank of Korea, income earned by foreign workers in Korea came to about $1.15 billion last year, down 2.8 percent from a year earlier. Income earned by Korean workers abroad shrank 13.8 percent on-year to $647.1 million.As a result, the country’s wage and income acco
Feb. 3, 2013
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Internet wonders which monkey Iran sent into space
Iran's announcement that it had successfully sent a monkey into space stirred questions on the Internet on Saturday, with people pointing to differences between official images of the primate before takeoff and after landing.On January 28, official Iranian media published pictures of a monkey named Pishgam (Pioneer) prior to the launch. The animal had light grey fur and a red mole above its right eye. But later, the ISNA news agency released photos taken during presenting the monkey to the press
Feb. 3, 2013
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Controversial video game ‘GTA V’ to be released on Sept. 17
New follow-up of action video game series “Grand Theft Auto,” which has provoked controversies over its violent and suggestive descriptions, will be globally released in September. U.S.-based game developer Rockstar Games announced in an official statement on Friday that the release date of “GTA V” has been fixed to Sept. 17. The title was previously scheduled to be launched early this year, but the developer later said that the game needs more time to complete. “The company apologi
Feb. 1, 2013
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LG rolls out new high-quality package earphone
LG Electronics released new high-performance earphones dubbed “Quad Beat 2” which is expected to be included in the company’s next flagship smartphone “Optimus G Pro” package.“Quad Beat 2” is a follow-up model to “Quad Beat,” which has enjoyed popularity with Korean smartphone users as its performance surpassed expectations for standard headphones provided as a part of cellphone package.The mobile phone manufacturer announced through its official blog on Friday that it successfully developed “Qu
Feb. 1, 2013
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Poor sleep in old age prevents memories
In older adults, memories may get stuck in part of the brain due to the poor quality of sleep and are then overwritten by new memories, U.S. researchers say. Senior author sleep researcher Matthew Walker of the University of California, Berkeley, said the slow brain waves generated during the deep restorative sleep play a key role in transporting memories from the part of the brain which provides short-term storage for memories to the part of the brain that stores long-term memories. However, in
Feb. 1, 2013
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Satellite in orbit, working normally
Korea’s newest scientific satellite made initial communication with a ground station in Daejeon early Thursday, finally confirming the success of the nation’s first successful launch of a space rocket from its own soil. The Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 rocket, jointly built by Korean and Russian scientists, launched from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla Province, at 4 p.m. Wednesday. The rocket put a 100-kilogram Science and Technology Satellite-2C into orbit about nine minutes aft
Jan. 31, 2013
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Worried Sick
There is an expression “worried sick.” Although it is just a saying for most people, for others it is quite real. Those who worry about having a major illness regardless of being healthy, those who worry about dying any minute from sudden anxiety, those who don’t appear in front of the public in case they make mistakes, and those who continuously worry about everything that happens in their daily lives, can all suffer from anxiety along with somatization that cannot be explained by physical fact
Jan. 31, 2013
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More than 40,000 TB patients found last year
Korea had more than 40,000 patients with tuberculosis last year, the highest number counted by the state-run disease control agency since 2001, officials said.According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40,126 tuberculosis patients were newly discovered in 2012, which accounted for 43 percent of patients with infectious diseases in the same year. Patients suffering from varicella were the second-largest group with 21,770, followed by patients with trombiculiasis and epidem
Jan. 31, 2013
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Free monthly lectures to look at mental health
A series of lectures to inform the public about mental health issues will take place in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province.The lectures, which are free and open to all, will be given by Park Han-son, a neuropsychiatrist at St. Andrew’s Neuropsychiatric Hospital. They will take place in the hospital’s main auditorium at 2 p.m. on the third or fourth Sunday of each month.“Mental health problems are one of the main public health issues in Korea,” said Park. “However, the stigma about mental illness has been
Jan. 31, 2013
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iPhone owners pay biggest monthly bills
iPhone owners pay more per month -- more than $100 for calls, texts and data -- than users of other smartphone platforms, a U.S. research firm says.Consumer Intelligence Research Partners said their analysis found 59 percent of iPhone users have monthly bills of more than $100, with 10 percent paying even more than that, approaching $200 a month.A little over a third of iPhone users pay $51 to $100, the firm said.In comparison, 53 percent of Android phone users pay more than $100, while less tha
Jan. 31, 2013
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No comparison between space programs of two Koreas: U.S. gov't
The U.S. government made clear Thursday that it makes no sense to compare the rocket launches of the two Koreas."You know our view that there is no basis for comparing the behavior of the ROK in space with the behavior of the DPRK," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said at a press briefing. She was using the acronym of the formal names of the Koreas -- the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.Earlier in the day, South Korea succeeded in its third attempt to
Jan. 31, 2013
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S. Korea's new satellite makes contact with ground station
South Korea's new science satellite successfully made contact with a ground station here Thursday, marking a complete success in the country's launch of its first-ever space rocket on the previous day, officials said.The first communication contact was made at 3:27:12 a.m., according to officials from the country's Satellite Technology Research Center at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, 160 kilometers south of Seoul.The contact came after the Korea Space Launch
Jan. 31, 2013