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4 Korean iPhone apps make it to top 10 paid list in Asia

Four Korean apps have made it to the top ten paid iPhone app list in the Asian region, signaling a positive trend for Korean developers wanting to jump into the fast-growing mobile software market. Birzzle, a puzzle game developed by Korea firm Enfeel Inc., ranked first and 10th at the same time in the list compiled by the Netherlands-based market research firm Distimo, which analyzed the data bas

June 27, 2011

4 Korean iPhone apps make it to top 10 paid list in Asia

Four Korean apps have made it to the top ten paid iPhone app list in the Asian region, signaling a positive trend for Korean developers wanting to jump into the fast-growing mobile software market. Birzzle, a puzzle game developed by Korea firm Enfeel Inc., ranked first and 10th at the same time in the list compiled by the Netherlands-based market research firm Distimo, which analyzed the data bas

June 27, 2011

Asteroid to pass by Earth on Tuesday

(MCT)A small asteroid about the size of a tour bus will pass close to Earth on Tuesday, space.com reported. The asteroid, about 10 meters wide, will make its closest approach at 2:14 a.m. Korean time on June 28 (17:14 GMT, June 27) and pass about 12,000 kilometers above Earth’s surface. The asteroid, named 2011 MD, was discovered by LINEAR, a pair of robotic telescopes in New Mexico, which scan as

June 27, 2011

Typhoon kills two, knocks out power, suspends domestic flights

Typhoon Meari brought heavy downpours and gusts across South Korea Sunday to kill two people and knock out power and suspend domestic flights. A rescue official in South Korea's eastern province of Gangwon was killed during a search-and-rescue operation for a missing toddler, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. A student presumed to be 15 years old was found dead after bei

June 26, 2011

Apple files lawsuit against Samsung's patent infringement

Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronic Co. Friday, accusing the South Koran company of infringing its patented technologies used in making its iconic smartphone, the iPhone. In a complaint filed with the Seoul Central District Court, Apple requested that Samsung Electronics be stopped from selling a line of its touch screen smartphones and a tablet PC that hit the local and global

June 24, 2011

S. Korea likely to approve world's 1st stem cell therapeutic drug

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's drug safety agency will likely approve a stem cell therapeutic drug this month in what could be the world's first move to permit the sale of a stem-cell medicine, officials said Friday.The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) is expected to finalize all procedures needed to permit the sale of "Hearticellgram-AMI," a stem cell therapy for acute myocardi

June 24, 2011

Japan makes fastest ever computer

Marking a leap forward in computing technology, Japan has created the world’s fastest super computer, called “The K supercomputer,” according to the Daily Mail. It is as fast as 1 million desktop PCs put together, performing eight quadrillion calculations per second. It is the first time in seven years that Japan has held the title of having the world’s fastest machine. The previous title-holder w

June 24, 2011

Study links potatoes, among other foods, to weight gain

(MCT)LOS ANGELES — Public Enemy No. 1 in America's battle of the bulge isn't cupcakes, soda or double bacon cheeseburgers. It's the simple potato, according to Harvard University researchers.Daily consumption of an extra serving of spuds — french fried, sliced into crispy chips, mashed with butter and garlic, or simply boiled or baked — was found to cause more weight gain than downing an additiona

June 24, 2011

Study links potatoes, among other foods, to weight gain

Bayer’s impotence drug gets KFDA approval

Bayer Healthcare’s erectile dysfunction treatment Levitra gained import approval from the Korea Food and Drug Administration Tuesday.Levitra is the first orodispersible tablet that melts inside the mouth and is designed to be easy to swallow without water. The product was first released in European countries in 2010 and Korea is the first country in Asia to distribute the pills.According to Bayer,

June 23, 2011

‘Robot surgery no better than regular operation’

Endoscopic surgeries and open surgeries are just as effective as robot surgeries but are much cheaper, the National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency said Tuesday. After its researchers surveyed 171 international and domestic papers, the institute concluded that robot surgery for prostate cancer had the survival rate, relapse rate and serious side effects as endoscopic or open surgeri

June 23, 2011

Hospice care does not shorten life: study

About half of terminally ill cancer patients die within 70 days of diagnosis and just 18 percent survive six months, a group of researchers found Tuesday. Hospices provide compassionate care for people in the last phases of an incurable disease so that they may live as fully and comfortably as possible instead of undergoing excessive treatments and therapies. But opting for hospice care does not l

June 23, 2011

Standing desks rise in popularity

WALNUT CREEK, California ― Last year, Kerri Campbell made a decision: She would no longer sit at her desk eight hours a day. Today, the retail broker for Daymon Worldwide in Pleasanton, Calif., stands on a couple of black pads, each about an inch think. Her keyboard is on a wooden stand built by her husband, and her monitor rests at eye level on a box, a hard drive dock and a ream of paper.It’s no

June 23, 2011

What are better treatment options for spinal stenosis?

Lumbar spinal stenosis is a degenerative spinal disorder that develops when the foramina of the lumbar vertebrae become narrowed resulting in compression of the nerve roots. This compression of the spinal canal causes back pain and neurological symptoms in the lower limbs. Spinal stenosis may be congenital (idiopathic) or acquired (degenerative). The main symptoms of the disease are limping and ba

June 23, 2011

What are better treatment options for spinal stenosis?

U.S. ups anti-smoking ante but will Korea?

USFDA OKs hard-hitting warnings on cigarettes but tobacco lobby checks similar Korean moveWith the unveiling of nine graphic images that will adorn every cigarette pack sold in the U.S. from the fall of 2012, government officials and outside experts predict there will be an initial wave of smokers seeking help in quitting. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the graphic labels released Tues

June 23, 2011

U.S. ups anti-smoking ante but will Korea?

U.S. marine gets leg back with injection of pig bladder hormone

A U.S. marine who almost lost his right leg due to a bomb blast in Afghanistan, has become the first to see it grow back, thanks to regenerative medicine that uses a substance from a pig bladder, the Daily Mail reported.Marine Corporal Isaias Hernandez lost 70 percent of his right thigh muscles that would normally require amputation. However, rather than cutting it off, the remaining leg muscles w

June 23, 2011

Thousands of yoga lovers take on Times Square

Yoga enthusiasts practice yoga during the "Solstice in Times Square" event at Times Square in New York, the United States, June 21, 2011. (Xinhua-Yonhap News)Thousands of yoga enthusiasts filled part of New York’s Times Square to participate in a massive yoga exercise called “Mind over Madness,” U.K. newspaper the Daily Mail reported. The event was held on the solstice, which marks the longest day

June 23, 2011

Thousands of yoga lovers take on Times Square

S. Korea gets int'l support to build 2nd research base in Antarctic

A plan to build South Korea's second research station in the Antarctic has gained approval from the international community, paving the way for its construction in 2014, the foreign ministry here said Wednesday.The support came at a meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, among member nations of the Antarctic Treaty System, the ministry said in a statement. Of the 33 member states, 16 nations, includi

June 22, 2011

Apple preparing faster iPhone for September

　Apple Inc. plans to introduce a new iPhone in September that boasts a stronger chip for processing data and a more advanced camera, according to two people familiar with the plans. 　The device will include the A5 processor, the more powerful chip that Apple added to the iPad 2 earlier this year, along with an 8-megapixel camera, up from the 5-megapixel model in the iPhone 4, said the people, who

June 22, 2011

Chinese billionaire confesses affair through online message

A Chinese billionaire, Wang Gongquan, announced that he is eloping with his mistress, on Chinese Social Networking Service Sino Weibo. The renowned investor’s online message to dump his wife to leave with his new love immediately went viral, The Telegraph reported. He posted the message saying, “I am giving up everything and eloping with Wang Qin. I feel ashamed and so am leaving without saying go

June 22, 2011

SK firm opens online site on scholarships

SK Communications said Tuesday it has launched a website that provides scholarship information involving 63 scholarship foundations and 110 different academic funding programs.The country’s online portal, which runs Cyworld, said it would also hold a briefing session in Seoul and Busan this week at two universities to explain how students could easily access information on various scholarships ava

June 21, 2011