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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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[Graphic News] 77% of young Koreans still financially dependent
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Yoo Jae-suk, Yoo Yeon-seok team up in 'Whenever Possible'
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Aging population to drive down Korea's housing prices from 2040: experts
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North Korea holds drills simulating nuclear counterattack against enemy
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KaKao's phone service hurts Korean telecom giants: Moody's
The launch of a free phone-call service by KakaoTalk is credit negative for South Korean telecommunication giants SKT and KT, Moody's Investors Service said Monday.KaKaoTalk is a popular multi-platform texting application based in South Korea. It claims more than 50 million subscribers around the world.The operator began the free phone service, VoiceTalk, on a trial basis last week.Moody's said th
June 12, 2012
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MS launches cloud platform in Korea
Global software giant takes on Amazon, Google in emerging technologyMicrosoft has launched its all-new hybrid cloud computing platform, Windows Azure, in Korea after holding off on the service for two years.Despite the delay in the release here, officials said MS is still ahead of its competitors such as Amazon and Google in Korea’s cloud computing arena.Amazon has not yet made a significant inroad into the Korean market, although the online book retailer has established its cloud computing serv
June 11, 2012
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Use body weight to fend off attacker
The history of the human race depended on basic survival instincts of protecting oneself from animal or enemy attack.We live in a modern world where society has evolved to have well-defined laws, proprieties, standards, and other things to protect us.But this doesn’t mean that we live in a safe and comfortable world without strangers or enemies. We never know what lurks around the corner.This column is meant for those who would like to know the basics on self-defense and be prepared to protect y
June 11, 2012
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Likelihood of death rises with ‘birthday blues’: study
For those over 60 years old, birthdays could be a stressful event that raises the likelihood of death from heart attacks, strokes, falls, suicides and even cancer, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday.According to a study conducted by researchers from Switzerland, those over age 60 are 14 percent more likely to die on their birthdays.On the special day, scientists found heart attacks rose more than eighteen percent while the stoke levels increased by 21.5 percent.“One interesting finding is that mo
June 11, 2012
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Doctor tries oriental medicine to treat hair loss
When 41-year-old Ryu Yeong-ho realized that her seborrheic dermatitis was not getting any better, she decided to seek an alternative route. Her condition, a debilitating scalp condition that can ultimately lead to permanent hair loss among other complications, has recently affected an increasing number of individuals. For Ryu, the diagnosis had been the same: all the dermatologists she visited had prescribed similar shampoos and ointments to stave off the symptoms and told her it was incurable.D
June 10, 2012
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Explorer's study of 'sexually depraved' penguins unearthed
He risked freezing or starving to death on a doomed expedition to the South Pole 100 years ago -- but for George Murray Levick, the real horror lay in the twisted sexual mores of the Adelie penguin.London's Natural History Museum has unearthed a landmark study by Levick, a scientist with the ill-fated 1910-13 Scott Antarctic Expedition, detailing the birds' sexual shenanigans, the Guardian newspap
June 10, 2012
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Study: Dogs show empathy to crying people
Dogs respond to a person who is crying regardless of whether it is their owner or an unfamiliar person, researchers in Britain found.Dr. Deborah Custance and Jennifer Mayer, both of the Department of Psychology at the University of London, developed a procedure to examine whether domestic dogs could identify and respond to emotional states in humans.Eighteen pet dogs -- a range of ages and breeds
June 10, 2012
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Shrimp's weapon could inspire better armor
Mantis ShrimpThe unique structure of a club-like arm of a crustacean could inspire changes in military body armor and vehicle and aircraft frames, U.S. scientists say.The bright orange fist-like club of the mantis shrimp, a 4-inch-long crustacean found in tropical waters, accelerates underwater faster than a .22-caliber bullet and can smash through mollusk shells and crab exoskeletons, researchers
June 10, 2012
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China to launch manned spacecraft this month: Xinhua
China will launch a manned spacecraft this month, state news agency Xinhua said Saturday, in the latest step in a programme aimed at giving the country a permanent space station by 2020.The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and its carrier rocket have already been moved to the launch platform at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China, Xinhua said, quoting an official with the country's manned
June 9, 2012
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Nexon buys $685 million stake in NCSoft, becomes biggest holder
Nexon Co., a Tokyo-based maker of online games, bought a 804.5 billion won ($685 million) stake in NCSoft Corp. to become the South Korean company's biggest shareholder.Nexon purchased 3.2 million NCSoft shares, a 14.7 percent stake, from NCSoft Chairman Kim Taek-Jin for 250,000 won apiece, it said in a statement today. That's 6.7 percent less than today's closing price in Seoul for NCSoft, which
June 9, 2012
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More child food allergies in urban areas
Children living in rural areas of the United States have fewer food allergies than children who live in urban areas, researchers found.Lead author Dr. Ruchi Gupta -- an assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and a physician at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago -- and colleagues said the study involved 38,465 children age 18
June 8, 2012
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Cyber experts warn of 'intelligent weapons'
Quick advances in cyber war technologies could soon lead to a new generation of so-called "intelligent cyber weapons" which top global IT defence experts warn could be virtually unstoppable."Rapid developments in cyber (technology) might lead to intelligent cyber weapons that are hard to control and it's practically impossible to use formal methods of verifying the safety of intelligent cyber weap
June 8, 2012
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U.S. teen recovering from rare illness after having fry-ups
A U.S. teenager has a “dream diet” that makes him the envy of his friends. The 15-year old boy consumes mountains of fry-ups including 56 sausages, 24 rashers of bacon and 24 burgers fried in a liter-and-a-half of olive oil every week. But he is no grease-lover -- he eats fatty foods to survive.Lee Jones suffers from a rare disease, contracted by just one in 14 million people, called GLUT1 that means he can’t process glucose and has to eat lots of high-fat foods to survive. Without his special d
June 8, 2012
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Universe's 'first light' seen by telescope
NASA says its Spitzer space telescope has detected the faint glow of the very first objects in the universe with the best precision yet.The faint objects, which might be incredibly massive stars or voracious black holes, are too far away to be seen individually but Spitzer has captured convincing evidence of what appears to be the patterns of their infrared light, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
June 8, 2012
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Kid CT scans linked to small leukemia risk
Children and teens scanned multiple times by computed tomography have a somewhat increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors, U.S. and British researchers say.Senior investigator Amy Berrington de Gonzalez of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute and colleagues at Newcastle University in England obtained CT exams from radiology departments in hospitals a
June 8, 2012
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Collaboration key on nanotech: expert
A top U.S. nanotechnology expert called for greater collaboration among countries and disciplines to deliver its potential to revolutionize computing, electronics, medicine, energy, environment and even agriculture.Nanotechnology is a fast-developing field of engineering that deals with manipulating materials of atomic and molecular size. One nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. The technology is finding its way into an increasingly wider range of industries with the convergence of diverse fi
June 7, 2012
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Telecoms’ backlash against Kakao Voice Talk rolls on
SKT, KT opposed, LG Uplus open to free mobile callsKakao’s controversial free mobile call application is facing growing opposition from Korea’s two telecom giants, SK Telecom and KT, as the venture firm’s new service is expected to hit their bottom lines.Kakao, which is widely known for its Kakao Talk free mobile messenger app, is gearing up to officially launch the next in its line of free mobile services, Voice Talk. Following this announcement three days ago, SK Telecom and KT remain adamant
June 7, 2012
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SKT, KT set milestone record in LTE users
SK Telecom said on Thursday that the number of its long term evolution network subscribers has exceeded 3 million as of early this month since launching the 4G telecommunication service in July last year.Within 11 months, Korea’s biggest mobile carrier has surpassed Japan’s NTT DoCoMo to become the world’s second leading LTE provider after U.S.-based Verizon, it said based on data by Wireless Intelligence.There were 72 companies that provided LTE services in 37 countries as of May, the company n
June 7, 2012
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Korea’s IT exports shrink 3% in May
South Korea’s exports of information technology products contracted 3 percent on-year in May due to sluggish global economic growth and fewer products shipped to the United States and Japan, the government said Thursday.The country shipped $12.94 billion worth of IT products last month, compared with $13.35 billion a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Knowledge Economy. However, the country posted a trade surplus of $6.57 billion as imports also fell 8.4 percent to $6.37 billion. May’s o
June 7, 2012
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Korea computer game giant takes on U.S. mobile market
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ―South Korea-based WeMade Entertainment went shoulder-to-shoulder Wednesday with titans at the E3 videogame extravaganza in Los Angeles with games designed to bring computer-quality play to smartphones or tablets.The 12-year-old company behind massively-multiplayer-online-role-player-game “Legend of Mir” planned to ride into the US market on the back of the mobile gadget lifestyle.The game has been a hit in Asia, particularly in China, and boasts more than 100 million players.“
June 7, 2012