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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Hybe's multilabel system tested amid conflict with Ador
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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SNU profs to suspend treatment for one day
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SK hynix pledges W20tr to ramp up DRAM production at home
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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Medical reform committee kicks off despite boycott from doctors
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Kim Euong-yong to lead Hanwha Eagles
Kim Euong-yong, who has won a record 10 championships as a manager in South Korean baseball, was named Monday as the new manager of the Hanwha Eagles in the Korea Baseball Organization.The Eagles said Kim has signed for two years with an annual salary of 300 million won ($270,000) plus a signing bonus of 300 million won.Kim, 72, has won 10 Korean Series in the KBO with two different franchises -- nine with the Haitai Tigers between 1983 and 2000, and one with the Samsung Lions in 2002.He has bee
Oct. 8, 2012
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Verlander, Tigers silence A’s
DETROIT (AP) ― Justin Verlander allowed a home run to the first batter of the game ― and quickly shrugged it off.This hard-throwing ace doesn’t usually hit his stride until a bit later.Verlander shut down Oakland after that early slip, and Alex Avila homered in the fifth inning to lift the Detroit Tigers over the Athletics 3-1 on Saturday night in the opener of their best-of-five AL playoff.Verlander allowed three hits in seven innings and matched his career postseason high with 11 strikeouts. A
Oct. 7, 2012
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Real season begins
Lotte, Doosan to clash in opening round of playoffsA pair of banged-up clubs will clash in the opening playoff round in South Korea’s top baseball competition starting next week.The Doosan Bears and the Lotte Giants will meet in the best-of-five KBO series, which begins next Monday. In the eight-team KBO, the top four teams in the regular season reach the postseason.The regular season champion earns a bye into the championship Korean Series. The No. 3 and the No. 4 teams play in the first round
Oct. 5, 2012
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October intensity
OAKLAND, California (AP) ― Same chaotic, champagne dance-party scene in the clubhouse just two days later. New T-shirt: AL West champions.The Oakland Athletics won the division title with another improbable rally in a season full of them, coming back from four runs down and a 13-game division deficit to stun the two-time defending league champion Texas Rangers 12-5 on Wednesday.“We knew this is a beast of a team we would have to beat, and to be able to beat them three games in a row and win the
Oct. 4, 2012
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Korean pro baseball league draws record spectators
Korea’s pro baseball league has drawn a record of more than 7 million spectators in a single season for the first time since its launch 31 years ago.The Korea Baseball Organization said that it attributes this milestone, set Oct. 2, largely to the popularity of star players who returned home from overseas such as Park Chan-ho, Kim Byung-hyun and Lee Seung-yeop. The expanded broadcasting coverage of the sport on cable is another factor, it said.Lotte Giants held a record title of drawing more tha
Oct. 3, 2012
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Donald’s hit in 12th lifts Indians over White Sox
CLEVELAND (AP) ― Jason Donald got the game-winning hit.He was more excited about Travis Hafner’s home run that sent Cleveland into extra innings.Donald singled home the winning run with two outs in the 12th inning, lifting the Indians over the Chicago White Sox 4-3 on Tuesday night. Hafner tied it with a pinch-hit, two-run homer in the ninth.“I’m happy to win it, but how about Hafner?,” Donald said after Cleveland’s sixth walkoff win. “You almost wouldn’t expect anything else. Whether it was his
Oct. 3, 2012
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Samsung bags spot in Series
The defending champion Samsung Lions beat the LG Twins 9-3 Monday, clinching their third consecutive berth in the championship round of South Korea’s top baseball league.The victory brought the Lions’ record to 76 wins, 50 losses and two ties, with five games left in the 133-game season, and gave them a five-game cushion over the second-place SK Wyverns. Also on Monday, the Wyverns clinched second place with a 4-1 win over the Hanwha Eagles.In the eight-team Korean Baseball Organization, the fir
Oct. 2, 2012
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Rangers down A’s 9-7 for split
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ― Ian Kinsler and the Texas Rangers moved closer to another AL West title with a split.They can now wrap up another division title at home even before having to face the chasing Athletics again next week in Oakland.Kinsler hit a leadoff homer to start a five-run first inning, Matt Harrison got his 18th victory and the two-time defending American League champions held on for a 9-7 victory Thursday. By splitting the four-game series, the Rangers maintained their four-game div
Sept. 28, 2012
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Pro baseball league draws record spectators
The Korean pro baseball league has established a new single-season attendance record despite negative promotion factors such as the 2012 London Olympics, record heat waves and typhoons.According to the Korea Baseball Organization, the attendance total for all eight teams through Tuesday this season surpassed the previous annual record set in 2011, with 35 games still remaining. Given this trend, the figure is likely to hit seven million this year for the first time since the league was launched
Sept. 26, 2012
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Madonna tells fans to vote for ‘black Muslim’ Obama
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Pop diva Madonna urged fans to vote for President Barack Obama in America’s November election, but raised eyebrows by calling him a “black Muslim,” according to a video posted online Tuesday.In the clip reportedly shot during a concert Monday night, she listed American icons Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King before turning to Obama, of whom she is a well-known supporter.“And now it is so amazing and incredible to think we have an African American in the White House,” she
Sept. 26, 2012
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Braves back in playoffs with win over Marlins
ATLANTA (AP) ― This time, the Atlanta Braves held onto their big lead and locked up a playoff trip with plenty of time to spare.It couldn’t have felt any sweeter for retiring star Chipper Jones.Freddie Freeman hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to put Atlanta back in the postseason with a 4-3 victory over the Miami Marlins on Tuesday night.Freeman’s dramatic drive off Mike Dunn clinched at least a National League wild-card berth for the Braves, who squandered a big lead in the
Sept. 26, 2012
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Pro baseball league sets single-season attendance record
The nation's top professional baseball league on Tuesday established a new single-season attendance record.The Korea Baseball Organization said through Tuesday's games, 6,810,926 fans have gone to see the eight teams in the top baseball competition, surpassing the previous record of 6,810,028 last year. The league office said the three games on Tuesday drew 25,900 fans at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul,
Sept. 25, 2012
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KBO playoff schedule set
The nation’s top baseball league on Tuesday announced the playoff schedule for this fall.The Korea Baseball Organization said the postseason will get underway on Oct. 8 and the championship Korean Series, if it goes the distance, will end on Nov. 1.In the eight-team KBO, the top four teams advance to the playoffs. The regular season champion gets a bye to the Korean Series, while the No. 2 team goes straight to the second round. The No. 3 and the No. 4 teams square off in the best-of-five first
Sept. 25, 2012
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Baseball veteran Jang Sung-ho reaches 2,000 career hits
Veteran first baseman Jang Sung-ho of the Hanwha Eagles on Tuesday became the third player to reach 2,000 career hits in the nation's top baseball league.In the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) action in Pohang, some 370 kilometers southeast of Seoul, Jang lined a single to right field off the Samsung Lions starter Brian Gordon for the milestone in the top of the fifth.Retired Yang Jun-hyuk is th
Sept. 18, 2012
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Manager of Nexen fired
The Nexen Heroes fired Kim Si-jin as their manager.The Heroes terminated their contract with Kim, who had signed a three-year extension last season, said officials of the Korea Baseball Organization team. He is the second managerial casualty in the KBO this year, after the last-place Hanwha Eagles let go of their manager Han Dae-hwa in late August.Bench coach Kim Sung-kap will be the interim manager for the rest of the season, officials added.Kim Si-jin, 54, took over as the Heroes’ manager in 2
Sept. 18, 2012
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White Sox pad lead in AL Central
CHICAGO (AP) ― Alex Rios went barreling into second base with a hard slide that teammate Gordon Beckham said might be the biggest play of the season for the White Sox as they try to win the AL Central.Rios was trying to break up a double play and when he went into Detroit second baseman Omar Infante, it caused an errant throw that allowed the tying and go-ahead runs to score Monday as the White Sox beat the Tigers 5-4 and went up three games in division.“That’s a situation where every second bas
Sept. 18, 2012
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Martin’s 3-run HR helps Yanks sink fading Rays
NEW YORK (AP) ― Nick Swisher drew a nice cheer for his rare bunt, Eduardo Nunez energized the crowd with three steals, and Russell Martin earned the biggest ovation for his home run.The New York Yankees mixed and matched against Tampa Bay ― at the plate and on the mound ― and emerged with a 6-4 win Sunday that kept them ahead in the AL East and ended a most damaging road trip for the Rays.Now, the Yankees can relax. For a bit, anyway.“We have a day off. Guys are going to rest tomorrow,” manager
Sept. 17, 2012
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Nova sharp in return as Yanks down Rays
NEW YORK (AP) ― Some critical reinforcements are still on the way for the Yankees. With the AL East race up for grabs, New York would be thrilled if those players are as sharp as Ivan Nova when they get back.Nova was downright nasty in his return from a shoulder injury and New York got back-to-back home runs from Curtis Granderson and Eduardo Nunez in a 5-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday.“Even though he hadn’t pitched a lot, you could see where his endurance level was, where his vel
Sept. 16, 2012
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White Sox tame Tigers
CHICAGO (AP) ― Jose Quintana pitched effectively into the eighth inning, Alex Rios and A.J. Pierzynski hit back-to-back homers in the sixth and the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 6-1 Monday night to increase their AL Central lead to three games.The Sox had lost seven straight to Detroit, managed just two hits against Rick Porcello and were 0 for 10 with runners in scoring position when an error on Detroit second baseman Omar Infante gave them an opening.Infante muffed Dewayne Wise’s e
Sept. 11, 2012
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Elbow pain forces Park off roster
Park Chan-ho, the first South Korean in U.S. major league history, has been taken off the top-tier lineup of the Hanwha Eagles. He was delisted from the first division for the first time since his debut in Korea this season after playing in the U.S. and Japan. So far this year, the 39-year-old veteran pitcher had sat out two games due to fatigue and back pain but stayed on the list.“I removed Park from the entry list due to his continued elbow pain,” acting manager Han Yong-duk told reporters on
Sept. 11, 2012