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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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Samsung institute moves to serve group better
Samsung Economic Research Institute appears to be shifting its activities to more exclusively serve its parent group, given the latest changes within the think tank. As Samsung Group’s arm for conducting macro and microeconomic research, SERI, with over 300 employees, ranks as one of Korea’s largest privately run economic think tanks. The institute, however, will no longer be releasing macroeconomic figures, including annual economic growth forecasts, starting next year. It also will discourage
IndustryNov. 20, 2012
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Daewoo Electronics wins kudos with innovative design
INCHEON ― Imagine a sleek little washing machine that hangs on your dining room wall. Mindboggling as it is, a team of designers at Daewoo Electronics turned this vision into reality. “Our ‘Mini’ is a classic case of how important it is to think through a design and turn a concept into an actual product,” Han In-cheol, head of Daewoo’s design center, told the Korea Herald. Mini is the fitting name given to the world’s smallest washing machine created by Daewoo. At about one-sixth the size of con
IndustryNov. 20, 2012
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Korea’s growth potential halves since 1997 crisis
South Korea’s growth potential has been almost cut in half since the economy survived the Asian financial crisis, data showed Tuesday, sparking concerns over the lack of drivers for future growth.The potential growth rate of Asia’s fourth-largest economy is estimated at an annual 3.7 percent as of this year, compared with 6.1 percent tallied just before the outbreak of the financial turmoil, according to data by the Bank of Korea, Statistics Korea and the Financial Supervisory Service. The figur
Nov. 20, 2012
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Asia-Pacific to launch trade pacts amid tensions
PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Asia-Pacific nations will launch negotiations for two giant free trade pacts Tuesday that diplomats say may foster warmer ties at a time of deep tensions over multiple territorial rows.China, Japan and South Korea, embroiled in maritime disputes that have frayed diplomatic ties, were due to start talks for a free-trade agreement when their trade ministers met on the sidelines of an Asian summit.Negotiations for a separate Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership involving t
Nov. 20, 2012
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‘Going to day care ups chance of obesity for children’
Children going to day care have a higher risk of being obese, a study by University of Montreal researchers claimed.In the study published recently in the Journal of Pediatrics, lead researcher Marie-Claude Geoffroy said children regularly attending day-care centers have a 50 percent higher chance of being obese than those staying home with parents. “We found that children whose primary care arrangement between 1.5 and 4 years was in day-care centers or with an extended family member were around
TechnologyNov. 20, 2012
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Infants fed fish may reduce asthma risk
Fish added to an infant‘s diet during the first year may reduce his or her risk of asthma, researchers in the Netherlands suggest.Jessica C. Kiefte-de Jong of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam and colleagues at the Department of Human Nutrition in Wageningen, the Netherlands, said infants who ate fish between the ages of 6 and 12 months might have a lower risk of developing asthma later, but those who ate fish before six months or after 12 months did not seem to gain the same benefit.The r
TechnologyNov. 20, 2012
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Alcohol during pregnancy found to hurt IQ
Moderate drinking by a pregnant woman -- six drinks a week or fewer -- can affect a child‘s IQ, researchers in Britain say. Dr. Ron Gray of the University of Oxford and colleagues at the University of Bristol used data involving more than 4,000 mothers and their children in the Children of the 90s study -- which tracks health and development of the parents and their children over a generation. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, found four genetic variants in alcohol-metabolizing genes
TechnologyNov. 20, 2012
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Rare image of distant exoplanet captured
Astronomers using an infrared telescope in Hawaii say they've captured a rare image of a "Super-Jupiter" around a massive distant star.Of the nearly 850 exoplanets discovered orbiting stars other than the sun, only a few have been captured in actual astronomical images.Most are detected by indirect means, since stars are much brighter than their planets and with traditional observational techniques the planet will be hidden in the glare of its host star.Obtaining an image of the planet orbiting
TechnologyNov. 20, 2012
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Having younger siblings leads to high blood pressure
Children who have younger siblings tend to have high blood pressure, according to U.S. researchers. A study suggested this is caused by competition with their siblings to attract their parents’ attention and feeling responsible for the younger ones. Also, it was revealed that their blood pressure continues to stay high into adulthood. The research was on 374 adult Bolivians in 200 families. The researchers studied connections among factors including siblings’ age and sex. Older sisters and broth
TechnologyNov. 20, 2012
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Happiness in youth leads to wealth in adulthood: study
They say that money cannot buy happiness, but perhaps it may work the other way around: A new study by scientists in Britain suggests that happy youngsters have a higher possibility of becoming rich adults.According to a study by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve of University of College and professor Andrew Oswald from the University of Warwick, people who reported higher life satisfaction when young were more likely to have a higher income than their depressed counterparts. In the study, researchers evalua
TechnologyNov. 20, 2012
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Phone screen responds to different touches
A U.S. computer scientist says he‘s developed a prototype smartphone with a touchscreen that can sense touches from different parts of the hand.Chris Harrison at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh says the screen can distinguish between touches from the knuckle, fingertip and even a fingernail, and initiate different phone action based on the hand part used, NewScientist.com reported.Harrison’s modified Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone senses the acoustic and vibrational differences between t
TechnologyNov. 20, 2012
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S. Korea’s growth potential halves since 1997 crisis
South Korea's growth potential has been almost cut in half since the economy survived the Asian financial crisis, data showed Tuesday, sparking concerns over the lack of drivers for future growth.The potential growth rate of Asia's fourth-largest economy is estimated at an annual 3.7 percent as of this year, compared with 6.1 percent tallied just before the outbreak of the financial turmoil, according to data by the Bank of Korea, Statistics Korea and the Financial Supervisory Service. The figur
Nov. 20, 2012
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Paralyzed dogs walk after cell transplant
CAMBRIDGE, England (UPI) -- A revolutionary transplant operation has allowed paralyzed dogs to walk again and may also benefit paralyzed human patients, British scientists said.Researchers at the University of Cambridge said the pet dogs had all suffered serious damage to their spinal cords that left them unable to walk normally with their hind legs.After specialized cells from the dogs’ noses were transplanted to the damaged nerves, most of the pets recovered their lost mobility and some were a
TechnologyNov. 20, 2012
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Ban ‘killer robots,’ rights group urges
Hollywood-style robots able to shoot people without permission from their human handlers are a real possibility and must be banned before governments start deploying them, campaigners warned Monday.The report “Losing Humanity” -- issued by Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School‘s International Human Rights Clinic -- raised the alarm over the ethics of the looming technology.Calling them “killer robots,” the report urged “an international treaty that would absolutely prohibit the development,
TechnologyNov. 20, 2012
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Red Bull linked to three deaths in Canada
Energy drinks have caused three Canadian teenagers to die and have had serious side effects on 35 other Canadians since 2003, Health Canada documents show.The three male teens, two 15-year-olds and an 18-year-old, died after drinking Red Bull, The Toronto Star reported. Red Bull also appears in more side-effect reports than any other similar product.Health Canada and the energy drink companies said side-effect reports show only a suspected connection between a product and side effect but no medi
TechnologyNov. 20, 2012
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S. Korea's household spending on food hits 11-year high
Spending by South Korean households on food and other groceries surged to the highest level in 11 years in the first half of this year amid a prolonged economic slump, data showed Tuesday.According to the data released by the Bank of Korea, the country's total household spending rose 4.7 percent from a year earlier to nearly 324 trillion won ($298 billion) in the January-June period.Of the total, the amount spent on food and non-alcoholic beverages came to 44 trillion won, up 6.3 percent from th
Nov. 20, 2012
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Korea, China, Japan to declare launch of 3-way FTA talks
PHNOM PENH (Yonhap News) -- South Korea, China and Japan plan to declare the official start of negotiations to forge a three-way free trade pact when their trade ministers meet on the sidelines of a regional summit in Cambodia this week, officials said Monday.In May, the three Asian economic powers agreed to launch talks within this year toward a free trade deal. However, the prospect of negotiations was later thrown into doubt when territorial and sovereignty spats flared anew among the three h
Nov. 19, 2012
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Alcohol-related mental illness increases
The number of people with alcohol-induced psychiatric disorders is growing, particularly in men in their 60s.According to the National Health Insurance Corporation, the number of patients with mental illnesses brought on by excessive drinking has increased from 66,196 in 2007 to 78,357 in 2011 on the annual average of 4.3 percent. Men in their 60s had the highest prevalence rate of alcoholic mental disease with 583 per 100,000 people. About 64,000 men suffered from psychiatric disorder due to ex
TechnologyNov. 19, 2012
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Dongbu Insurance pays highest starting salary
Dongbu Insurance Co. pays the highest annual salaries to first-year employees, beating the former best-paying company Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance Co., according to news reports. Unlike the public conception that Samsung affiliate companies offer the highest annual starting salaries, Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance Co. ranked No. 3 despite its No. 1 performance in business Yonhap News said. Before tax reduction, the annual salaries for first-year employees with bachelor’s degrees was the
TechnologyNov. 19, 2012
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Drug use, unsafe sex fuel hepatitis C cases
Drug injection, tattooing, body piercing and sexual promiscuity are rising causes of hepatitis C infection in Korea, a study showed Monday.According to a research team at Seoul National University Hospital in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province, 28 percent of 1,173 respondents who are currently undergoing hepatitis C treatment at five teaching hospitals in Seoul and Busan said they had more than four sexual partners while in a comparison group only 10 percent had as many partners. Drug injection has also
TechnologyNov. 19, 2012