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[Weekender] Can't get a date? Try a temple ... or city hall
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S. Korea successfully launches 1st spy satellite into orbit
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Try Seoul’s cheap, fulfilling street grub at Gwangjang Market
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Concerns over bedbugs rise among pet owners
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Hyundai Mobis develops world’s first quantum dot car display
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US authorizes potential sale to S. Korea of munitions, equipment for F-35 stealth jets
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Schools brace for impact of record-low enrollment
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Koreas' spy satellite launches heat up arms race in space
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US issues rules on 'foreign entity of concern' ineligibility for EV car tax credit
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Govt. posthumously confers state medal on late Ven. Jaseung
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Discount offered for patients who use neighborhood clinics
Starting next year, people suffering from chronic illnesses such as diabetes or hypertension will be able to get a discount on their medical bills if they register at a neighborhood clinic instead of visiting general hospitals or clinics far from home.According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare,
Sept. 8, 2011
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Do you want to sleep well?
“Boys and girls, it’s time to go to bed.” When I was a boy, everyday this message came from the television or radio just before 9 p.m. I thought of it as a signal for the end of the day and would go to bed. I knew nothing about the world after that time. The 9 to 6 sleep schedule was considered the
Sept. 8, 2011
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Tips on healthy Chuseok diet
Doctor’s advise: cut oil where you can, even healthy foods can be overeatenMany people have memories of gaining holiday weight after days of feasting with their families over Chuseok. Most holiday foods are fatty and high in calories as they are usually sweet, fried or roasted. In the old days when
Sept. 8, 2011
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Report: NASA needs to keep more astronauts on hand
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA needs to keep more astronauts on staff than planned even though no one is being launched from the home turf, a new report urged Wednesday. (MCT)Many astronauts have retired or quit with this year's end of the space shuttle program. But a robust corps still is needed
Sept. 8, 2011
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Suicide main cause of death for those under 40 in S. Korea
Suicide was the No. 1 cause of death among people under 40 years of age in South Korea last year, with the nation‘s overall suicide rate also marking the highest among the world’s major countries, a report showed Thursday.According to the report by Statistics Korea, suicide was the leading cause of
Sept. 8, 2011
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Adult smoking rate edges down slightly: CDC data
CHICAGO (AP) _ Fewer U.S. adults are smoking and those who do light up are smoking fewer cigarettes each day, but the trend is weaker than the government had hoped.According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Tuesday, 19.3 percent of adults said they smoked last ye
Sept. 8, 2011
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Weaker prices dent Korea’s IT exports
South Korea’s exports of information technology products shrank from a year earlier for the second straight month in August largely on lower global prices, the government said Wednesday.The country exported $13.06 billion worth of IT products last month, down 2.4 percent from $13.39 billion in the s
Sept. 7, 2011
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‘iPhone to overtake Nokia in smartphone shipments’
U.S. IT giant Apple is set to become the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer by volume, overtaking Nokia for the first time, a report showed on Tuesday.According to DigiTimes, a Taipei-based daily, Apple is expected to take 19 percent of the global smartphone market with shipments of 86.4 millio
Sept. 7, 2011
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LCD prices hit record low on oversupply, weak demand
Prices of liquid crystal display panels, a key export item for South Korea’s technology firms, plunged to all-time lows on oversupply and weak demand, industry data showed Wednesday. The latest data compiled by DisplaySearch showed that not only the prices of large-size LCD panels for TVs, but also
Sept. 7, 2011
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UK officials may take 4 obese kids into custody
(MCT)LONDON (AP) -- Scottish officials say they may take four heavy children away from their parents after warnings to help their kids trim down have apparently failed.The children are aged one to 11. The parents are obese and have three older children who are also heavy. For the past two years, the
Sept. 6, 2011
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iphone 5 would be thinner and wider
Rumor has it that Apple’s iPhone 5 will be wider, longer, and thinner than its predecessor.Italian blog MacityNet recently posted set of new photos of iPhone cases and claimed that these cases will fit the next generation of Apple’s smartphones. Case manufacturers become frequent sources for Apple r
Sept. 5, 2011
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CDC: 2 children sickened by novel swine flu strain
A new strain of swine flu has shown up in two children in Pennsylvania and Indiana who had direct or indirect contact with pigs. The virus includes a gene from the 2009 pandemic strain that might let it spread more easily than pig viruses normally do.So far, there's no sign that the virus has spread
Sept. 5, 2011
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Kakao Talk set to embrace social games
Kakao Talk, the country’s most popular messenger app for smartphones, is to team up with a game developer in a bid to open up a fresh revenue channel amid heightened industry-wide interest in such messenger apps. Kakao Talk has been widely adopted by users of Apple’s iPhone and Android-based smartph
Sept. 4, 2011
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Samsung puts new Galaxy Tab on hold as Apple pulls court order
Samsung Electronics Co. is halting promotion of its latest tablet computer in Germany after Apple Inc. won a second injunction blocking Galaxy Tab sales there as one of the world’s largest electronics shows gets under way. Samsung, Apple’s closest rival in tablet computers, pulled the just-unveiled
Sept. 4, 2011
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New Mars site more favorable for life: scientists
WASHINGTON - A new site being explored by the Mars rover Opportunity has yielded soil samples unlike any examined before on the red planet and that appear more favorable for life, scientists said Tuesday. Opportunity, the indefatigable robot that has been exploring Mars for seven and a half years, a
Sept. 3, 2011
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Mars rover Opportunity studying new surroundings
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Mars rover Opportunity is snapping pictures like a tourist since arriving at its latest crater destination, much to the delight of scientists many millions of miles (kilometers) away.The solar-powered workhorse beamed back images of the horizon, soil and nearby rocks that are
Sept. 2, 2011
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Space junk littering orbit; might need cleaning up
WASHINGTON (AP) — Space junk has made such a mess of Earth's orbit that experts say we may need to finally think about cleaning it up.That may mean vacuuming up debris with weird space technology — cosmic versions of nets, magnets and giant umbrellas, according to the chairman of an expe
Sept. 2, 2011
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Scientists develop optical film to produce 3D images
South Korean scientists said Friday that they have developed an optical film that enables ordinary displays to show images in three dimensions (3D).The Seoul National University (SNU) team said the special film uses the Lucius prism array principle to get an effect similar to the one created by view
Sept. 2, 2011
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Teen vaccinations against cervical cancer lagging
ATLANTA (AP) ― Only about half of the teenage girls in the U.S. have rolled up their sleeves for a controversial vaccine against cervical cancer - a rate well below those for two other vaccinations aimed at adolescents.The vaccine hit the market in 2006. By last year, just 49 percent of girls had go
Sept. 1, 2011
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Middle-aged women and herpes zoster
About one out of every four herpes zoster (shingles) patients are women 50 or older. According to the Mayo clinic’s definition, herpes zoster is a viral infection that causes a painful rash. Although shingles can occur anywhere on the body, it most often appears as a band of blisters that wraps from
Sept. 1, 2011
