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Dictator Kim becomes popular drink’s model
Sprite advertisement (YouTube)Although Kim Jong-il is the most influential and even sacred figure in North Korea, he is treated as a hilarious icon outside of the hermit kingdom.A new Sprite advertisement which features a dictator clearly modeled after Kim is popular among Chinese websites.Produced in Israel, the advertisement depicts the dictator dancing wildly after taking a sip of the drink. It
North Korea April 1, 2011
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Park counters Lee's decision on airport
Let to speak on broken election pledge FridayRep. Park Geun-hye, currently the ruling Grand National Party’s strongest presidential hopeful, on Thursday expressed regret over the government’s decision to chuck President Lee Myung-bak’s election pledge to build an airport in the southeastern part of the country, adding that Korea should keep pushing for it.The GNP’s factional leader and Lee’s polit
Politics March 31, 2011
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Biggest spike in radiation at Japan power plant
TOKYO (AP) _ Seawater outside the hobbled nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan was found to contain 3,335 times the usual amount of radioactive iodine _ the highest rate yet and a sign that more contaminated water was making its way into the ocean, officials said Wednesday. The amount of iodine-131 found offshore some 300 yards (meters) south of the coastal Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant
World News March 30, 2011
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Scientists develop biochip to help detect diseases, pollutants
South Korean researchers said Wednesday that they have developed a highly sensitive biochip capable of precisely detecting diseases and environmental pollutants. The new biochip has been tested to be 100,000 times more sensitive in detecting individual molecules of diseases and pollutants compared to conventional screening devices, said the state-run Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and B
Technology March 30, 2011
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Main opposition leader declares candidacy for April by-elections
Sohn Hak-kyu, Chairman of the Democratic Party (Yonhap News)The leader of the main opposition party has decided to run in next month's by-elections to pick three lawmakers and several local administrative chiefs, his aides said Wednesday, making the elections largely unpredictable.Sohn Hak-kyu, chairman of the Democratic Party (DP) and former governor of Gyeonggi Province, will challenge for a leg
Politics March 30, 2011
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BOK head calls for steady steps for household debt
South Korea's top central banker has stressed the need to steadily tackle growing household debt, which market watchers fear will undercut the country's economic growth momentum. South Korean household debts came to nearly 800 trillion won ($721.8 billion) as of the end of last year, which analysts say had been stoked by the country's low borrowing costs. In a dinner meeting with reporters
March 30, 2011
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Renault Samsung decides to cut output by 20 pct
Renault Samsung Motors Co., the South Korean unit of French automaker Renault SA, said Wednesday it will cut its output by about 20 percent from next month due to an undersupply of parts from quake-hit Japan. The company is said to import up to 18 percent of all parts for its vehicles from Japanese suppliers, largely because of Renault's strategic alliance with Japan's Nissan Motor Co. Ren
Mobility March 30, 2011
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Bacteria found in Japanese powdered milk
South Korea's quarantine agency said Tuesday it found bacteria that may be harmful to babies in a powdered milk product imported from Japan. The National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service (NVRQS) said enterobacter sakazaki bacteria was detected in powdered milk made by Wacodo Co. Ltd. The discovery was made when inspectors checked samples from a 50-box shipment containing 222 kilo
Social Affairs March 29, 2011
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Motorola to launch its first tablet in S. Korea
Motorola Mobility Inc. said Tuesday that the company will roll out its first tablet computer in South Korea in April, heralding stiffer competition among tablet makers. The Xoom tablet computer, built on the latest version of Google Inc.'s Android platform called Honeycomb, will be launched through SK Telecom Co., the country's top mobile operator, the company's Korea unit president said in a pr
Baseball March 29, 2011
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NCsoft gets final approval as owner of expansion baseball team
NCsoft, a local online game company, received its final stamp of approval Tuesday to launch a new professional baseball team in South Korea. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced that NCsoft met the required support from owners of the league's eight existing teams. The league office said seven owners approved the expansion, and the company needed two-thirds of support. After the com
Baseball March 29, 2011
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Translation not between languages, but generations
Amid the flooded mobile application market, already awash with new creative programs, another app has been introduced -- to help parents better understand their children.The “Woteva” (slang for “whatever”) app, expected to be officially available by summer, will provide users with definitions of teenagers’ slang, reported the Daily Mail.Due to the Internet and the use of text messages, youngsters
Technology March 29, 2011
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Jilted pensioner shoots neighbor’s house
A woman fired four bullets at her neighbor’s home after he refused to give her a kiss, news reports said.Helen Staudinger, 92, from Florida, was having an “affair” with her 53-year-old neighbor, Dwight Bettner. She maintained that the reason she fired the shots was because lying had soured the relationship, the reports said.However, Bettner gave a different story. According to him, the relationshi
March 29, 2011
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Students arrested for starting forest fire
(Yonhap News)Two students in Busan were arrested Sunday on charges of causing a forest fire, police said on Monday.According to the Busan Haeundae Police, a 15-year-old high school freshman, surnamed Yoon, attempted to burn his old test sheets with a friend. Police said Yoon did this as a “ceremony” to make a new resolution for his high school life, as his grades during his middle school years wer
Social Affairs March 29, 2011
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Irish lovers murder their spouses
An Irish couple murdered their spouses and disguised it to look like suicide. The shocking crime, which happened 20 years ago, came to the surface when one of the accomplices confessed his crime after feeling guilty following death of his son, reported the Daily Mail.Mrs. Hazel Stewart, formally a Sunday school teacher, entered into an affair with Mr. Colin Howell, who was a dentist. Stewart even
Podcast March 29, 2011
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Traces of radioactive iodine detected in Seoul
Traces of radioactive iodine have been detected in Seoul and a few other areas of South Korea following the nuclear crisis in quake-stricken Japan, a state-run nuclear safety agency said Tuesday. The Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS) said that it started to analyze materials taken from the air in 12 places across the nation Monday and detected traces of radioactive iodine-131 in the at
Social Affairs March 29, 2011
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