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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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Medical reform committee kicks off despite boycott from doctors
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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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Over 9,000 hotline calls made by stalking victims in 2023
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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[Hello India] Hyundai Motor vows to boost 'clean mobility' in India
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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Monthly users on local streaming platforms outpace Netflix, Disney+
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US will take steps for three-way engagement on nuclear deterrence with S. Korea, Japan: Campbell
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Musicshake pushes vision of music-making for all
Samsung, Nexon-backed tech firm Silent Music Band seeks M&A for synergy between music, social networkingMusic has long been considered a field only for professional singers, composers or those who, at least, studied or know how to read and play music.But Blue Yun, the CEO and founder of Silent Music Band, aims to break this conventional thinking by helping consumers, regardless of age, background and experience, understand and create music through its software. This is the main reason the compan
July 11, 2012
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Google makes proposals to EU on competition concerns
BRUSSELS (AFP) ― Google said Monday it had made proposals to EU regulators who have threatened to impose huge fines unless the Internet search giant allays concerns it has abused its dominant market position.“We have made a proposal to address the four areas the European Commission described as potential concerns,” said Google spokesman Al Verney.The proposals, made in a letter from Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt to EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, followed a demand by EU ant
July 11, 2012
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Foreign phone makers struggle in Korea
Analysts attribute declining foreign presence to lack of marketing, distribution and AS service capabilityForeign mobile phone makers are facing difficulties in marketing their brands in Korea, one of the most wired countries in the world, and competing against local giant players such as Samsung Electronics.Industry sources said that this is nothing new as the local market has always been dominated by local companies, with little space open to foreign players to increase their presence, even d
July 11, 2012
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South Korea hints at scrapping whaling plan
South Korea said Wednesday it may scrap its fiercely criticized plan to resume "scientific" whaling if experts come up with non-lethal means to study the mammals in its waters."We may not conduct whaling for scientific research if there is another way to achieve the goal," Kang Joon-Suk, a senior official of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, told reporters.South Korea unve
July 11, 2012
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Smart headlights will see 'through' rain
U.S. researchers say a new "smart" headlight design will help drivers in rainy condition by constantly redirecting light to shine between raindrops.Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh say the system, successfully demonstrated in lab tests, prevents the distracting and dangerous glare of headlight beams reflected by precipitation back toward the driver."If you're driving in a th
July 11, 2012
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Pets boost infant immunity to infections
(123rf)Infants, who had contact with dogs at home had fewer respiratory tract symptoms or infections than children with no dog contacts, researchers in Finland found.Lead author Dr. Eija Bergroth, a pediatrician who worked at Kuopio University Hospital in Finland at the time of the study, and colleagues at Kuopio University Hospital, the National Institute for Health and Welfare in Kuopio, Finland
July 11, 2012
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Doctors extract 13-cm worm from man’s eye
Doctors in Mumbai removed a 13-cm live worm from a patient’s right eye.The 75 year-old patient, PK Krishnamurthy, was suffering from an irritated and itchy eye for a long period of time before finally deciding to visit his local doctor’s office.After an examination, ophthalmologists at Fortis hospital found the worm -- a threadlike parasite -- swimming around in the eye and extracted it. Dr V Seetharaman who conducted the minor surgery said the case was “extremely unusual” and Krishnamurthy was
July 11, 2012
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Conn. man donates 18 gallons of blood
A Connecticut man who has been donating blood for 34 years said he has donated a total of 18 gallons in 144 separate donations.Alan Gittleman of South Windsor, first donated blood to the American Red Cross in 1978 as part of the Bridgeport Jewish Community Center's drive in the name of his father-in-law, who had recently undergone surgery.He said he has donated about six times per year since his o
July 11, 2012
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IT exports shrink 5.2% in first half
Korea’s exports of information technology products sank 5.2 percent on-year during the first half of the year, mainly due to weak demand from European consumers gripped by protracted eurozone debt problems, data showed Tuesday.The country shipped $73.27 billion worth of IT products during the January-June period, down from $77.32 billion a year earlier, according to the data released by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy.During the same period, South Korea also saw its IT imports drop 6.5 percent
July 10, 2012
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Sitting less may extend American lives: study
(123rf)American adults may boost their life expectancy by two years by sitting for fewer than three hours a day, researchers said Tuesday, while admitting this was a tough task.Reducing television viewing to under two hours a day could similarly add1.4 years, the US team said in a paper in the online journal BMJ Open.A recent study found that US adults spend about 7.7 hours per day engaged in "s
July 10, 2012
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‘Irreplaceable’ dinosaur fossil destroyed
An “irreplaceable” dinosaur fossil destroyed at a dig in western Canada is the fourth fossil to be damaged in the last two months, a paleontologist says.The skeleton of a duck-billed Hadrosaur was discovered in Alberta June 15 by paleontologist Phil Bell and a team from the University of Alberta, CBC News reported.At that time, the fossil was partially uncovered by the team and then reburied so it could be removed from the site in mid-July.When Bell visited the site Thursday, he discovered the 3
July 10, 2012
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Math anxiety higher in girls than in boys?
More girls than boys are likely to experience math anxiety that may hurt their classroom performance in the subject, British researchers say.High math anxiety was a stronger predictor of poor test performance for girls than for boys, researchers from Cambridge and Oxford Universities said -- and could keep girls from persisting with their math education and pursuing careers that require quantitati
July 10, 2012
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Sounds of Northern Lights confirmed
(123rf)Sounds associated with auroras, or northern lights, described in folktales and by wilderness wanderers, have been confirmed by Finnish researchers.Scientists at Aalto University using microphones determined the crackles or muffled bangs are formed about 70 meters above ground level."Our research proved that, during the occurrence of the northern lights, people can hear natural auroral sound
July 10, 2012
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Sitting less may extend American lives: study
American adults may boost their life expectancy by two years by sitting for fewer than three hours a day, researchers said Tuesday, while admitting this was a tough task.Reducing television viewing to under two hours a day could similarly add1.4 years, the U.S. team said in a paper in the online journal BMJ Open.A recent study found that U.S. adults spend about 7.7 hours per day engaged in "sedent
July 10, 2012
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SK Telecom world’s first in sending 3-D broadcast through LTE network
SK Telecom said Monday that it transmitted 3-D broadcasting content through its Long Term Evolution networks for the first time in the world.In an opening ceremony of the 3-D Media Lab in Sangamdong, Seoul, SK Telecom successfully field-tested the 3-D broadcasting transmission.This marks the first time where media and telecommunications technologies of 3-D broadcasting equipment and LTE networks have been integrated, SK Telecom noted.As 3-D visuals take up a lot more data space than conventional
July 9, 2012
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Samsung said to plan Windows RT tablet
Samsung Electronics, the largest phone maker, will release a tablet that features Microsoft Corp.’s Windows RT software when the operating system debuts, people with knowledge of the matter said. Samsung has made a handheld computer built on Windows RT, the first version of Windows that works on ARM Holdings Plc technology, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans haven’t been made public. Windows RT devices will be released in October, one person said. The decision to s
July 9, 2012
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Samsung wins U.K. Apple ruling over Galaxy tablet
Samsung Electronics Co. won an intellectual property ruling against Apple Inc. as a U.K. judge said the Galaxy tablet isn’t “cool” enough to be confused with the design for the iPad. The Galaxy tablet doesn’t infringe Apple’s registered design, Judge Colin Birss said in a ruling today in London. He said that consumers weren’t likely to get the two tablet computers mixed up. The Galaxy tablets “do
July 9, 2012
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Sleeping tips for night-shift workers
It is 2.30 pm and time for Michaela Lins and Christine Langanke to get up and prepare for their night shift in a German hospital. The two nurses work through the night, from 8.30 in the evening to 6.15 the next morning, and they find the hours take it out of them."It grinds you down, particularly when you do a week of nights or early shifts," Lins says. Her last shift was a relatively quiet one, b
July 9, 2012
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NASA Mars images 'next best thing to being there'
The U.S. space agency NASA has recently pieced together a panoramic view from the camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, calling it the "next best thing to being" on the Red Planet.The full-circle scene fuses together 817 images taken by the mast-mounted panoramic camera (Pancam) on the Opportunity over a four-month period, showing new rover tracks and an old impact crater.The panor
July 9, 2012
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Study shows spaceflight may ‘slow aging’
A group of international researchers found that spaceflight may extend the lifespan of a certain type of microscopic worm, providing clues to better understand how to survive in space and opening up possibilities for deep-space exploration.A team of scientists led by Nathaniel Szewczyk from Nottingham University found that the metabolism of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) changes in space in order to "adapt to the new environment," according to a report on Science Daily.“We identified seven
July 9, 2012