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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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NewJeans' singles, Japanese debut to proceed as planned, despite Hybe-Ador feud
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Experts raise concerns about Japan putting pressure on Naver over Line
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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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Samsung mobile chief, Google device head meet in Seoul
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Ship linked to NK arms shipments to Russia is moored in China: State Dept.
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Alarm clock app difficult to turn off
A pair of Italian developers have created an alarm clock smartphone app designed to help users wake up with math games and other tasks.The FreakyAlarm app, created by Enrico Angelini and Gabriele Di Lorenzo, has a basic mode where users must take pictures of objects or barcodes before bed then photograph the same objects or barcodes to shut the alarm off in the morning, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.The app also has an "evil" setting, which requires users to solve difficult math equa
March 15, 2013
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Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson
It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago.In what could go down as one of the great Eureka! moments in physics _ and win somebody the Nobel Prize _ scientists said Thursday that after a half-century quest, they are confident they have found a Higgs boson, the elusive subatomic speck sometimes called the “God particle.”The existence of the particle was theorized in 1964 by the British physicist Pete
March 15, 2013
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Samsung refreshes iPhone-challenging Galaxy line
Samsung Electronics is kicking up its competition with Apple with its new Galaxy S4 smartphone, which has a larger, sharper screen than its predecessor, the best-selling S III.Samsung trumpeted the much-anticipated phone's arrival Thursday at an event accompanied by a live orchestra while an audience of thousands watched the onstage theatrics. The Galaxy S4, which crams a 5-inch (12.7-centimeter) screen into body slightly smaller than the S III's, will go sale globally in the April to June perio
March 15, 2013
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Taking care of your lungs
I feel that more people are becoming worried about lung cancer these days. I have had students in their 20s come in with chest pain, who were found to have normal lungs, but insisted on a full check up because their uncle died of lung cancer. Of course, lung cancer can cause chest pain. This does not mean that all chest pain is caused by lung cancer. Many patients, on the other hand, can be diagnosed with lung cancer even without any symptoms.Get tested if you see blood in your phlegmThere are s
March 14, 2013
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Korean scientists verify link between stress, drug addiction
South Korean scientists have identified a substance that causes a drug addict to become more strongly addicted under stress, the science ministry said Wednesday, suggesting a way to lower the chance of repeat addiction.It was confirmed that people with previous records of drug addiction are more prone to become addicted again when placed under significant amounts of stress, but how exactly stress works to increase the chance of repeat addiction has not been verified, according to the Ministry of
March 14, 2013
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Dental microscopes boost quality of treatment
High-performance microscopes are powerful tools in dental treatment, but only a handful of university hospitals and professional clinics possess such equipment.These microscopes magnify the treatment area by 10 to 26 times, which allows dentists to detect miniscule cracks and nerve damage in the teeth that are invisible to the naked eye. In the past, it was difficult to detect the precise location of infection, and thus dentists frequently removed healthy teeth surrounding the infection point as
March 14, 2013
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Korea logs trade surplus for 13 straight months
SEJONG (Yonhap News) ― South Korea logged a trade surplus for 13 straight months in February despite the prolonged sluggish export growth affected by the global economic slump, customs data showed Thursday.According to the customs-clearance trade figures provided by the Korea Customs Service, South Korea’s exports shrank 8.6 percent on-year to $42.3 billion last month. Imports also dropped 10.6 percent to $40.3 billion.The country’s trade surplus last month, however, came to $2 billion, larger t
March 14, 2013
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Asiana Airlines wins top fuel efficiency rating
Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 flag carrier, has been named the best airline in fuel efficiency in the country, the government said Thursday.The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs made the announcement, citing a test by the Korea Transportation Safety Authority on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions by Asiana Airlines and five other local carriers.Asiana Airlines and Korean Air Lines as well as four other budget carriers signed a voluntary agreement with the ministry
March 14, 2013
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ITC delays Samsung-Apple decision again
A U.S. trade agency has once again delayed its decision on the high-profile patent war between Apple and Samsung, this time based on considerations of how much consumers and the U.S. economy would be hurt should it ban imports of Apple’s iPhones and iPads over a patent held by Samsung Electronics. The U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington was scheduled to issue a final decision in Samsung’s patent infringement case yesterday. Instead, it asked for comments on how a ban would affect t
March 14, 2013
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Men and women smoke for different reasons
Men tend to smoke for fun while women light up to relieve stress, a survey revealed.The survey, commissioned to mark “No Smoke Day” in Britain, showed that 56 percent of the male respondents smoke when they hang out with friends, higher than 48 percent of female smokers.“This is surprising, particularly in the modern day and could be indicative that women potentially attribute an element of shame to their smoking behavior,” said Jo Hemmings, a behavioral psychologist.The research also showed tha
March 14, 2013
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Neanderthal demise down to eye size?
Neanderthals went extinct because they had larger eyes than modern humans that monopolized brain resources to see in the long nights in Europe, scientists say.Modern humans, on the other hand, spent more time in Africa where longer, brighter days required no such adaption and allowed our frontal lobes, associated with higher-level thinking, to evolve further before we moved out of Africa and spread across the globe, they said.Eiluned Pearce of Britain's Oxford University, comparing Neanderthal s
March 14, 2013
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Dwelling on past increases risk of inflammation
A study suggests that people who dwell on past events can increase the risk of inflammation.Researchers in Ohio University recruited 24 young women and asked them to make a speech in front of stoned-faced interviewers.After dividing the participants into two groups, they asked the first group to contemplate on their past memories while asking the second group to think about other things such as sailing in boats and browsing for groceries.Blood samples collected from the first group showed a high
March 14, 2013
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The ‘20-20-20-20’ strategy keeps your eye healthy
U.S. vision health professionals recommended heavy computer users to follow the ‘20-20-20-20’ healthcare strategy to reduce eye strain. The strategy is designed to let people blink for 20 times in every 20 minutes and watch an object 20 feet away for 20 seconds. Office workers and game players often suffer from dry eyes, since they need to use computers for long hours.“Today’s offices are commonly cool and dry, which is nice and comfortable, except for the eyes. Blinking is nature’s way of keepi
March 14, 2013
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Google tosses Reader as house cleaning continues
Google said Wednesday it was tossing its Reader service and seven other products under a house cleaning campaign that has closed 70 of the Internet giant‘s features in the past two years.“These changes are never easy,” Google senior vice president of technical infrastructure Urs Holzle said in a blog post.“But by focusing our efforts, we can concentrate on building great products that really help in their lives.”Reader was launched in 2005 as a way for people to keep track of updates to favored
March 14, 2013
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67% of Korean mobile subscribers use smartphones
A total of 67 percent of South Korean mobile subscribers used smartphones, surpassing usage rates in other major economies, data showed Wednesday.In a survey of 10 countries, South Korea had the highest rate of smartphone usage, surpassing China’s 66 percent and Australia’s 65 percent, according to the data from U.S. market researcher Nielsen.The figure was higher than 62 percent in Italy, 61 percent in Britain and 53 percent in the United States.South Korea also had one of the highest subscript
March 13, 2013
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Samsung SDI tops lithium-ion battery market for 3rd year
Samsung SDI Co. topped the global market for lithium-ion batteries for the third straight year in 2012, helped by growing demand for mobile devices, data showed Tuesday.The company shipped 1.07 billion cells last year, claiming 26 percent of the global lithium-ion battery market, according to the data by Japanese market researcher B3.One cell is generally used for batteries for smartphones or tablet PCs, while a larger number of cells are used for bigger batteries such as those for electric cars
March 13, 2013
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SKC sells stake in Chinese PET plant to Toyobo
SKC Inc., a South Korean industrial film maker, said Wednesday that it has decided to sell a stake in its Chinese polyester film plant to a Japanese maker of plastic film, as part of efforts to strengthen business cooperation.Toyobo Co. of Japan will hold a 15-percent stake in SKC High Tech Plastics Co. in China, becoming the third-largest shareholder after SKC and SKC China, the company said.SKC did not reveal the value of the deal.The PET film plant, located in the Chinese city of Nantong, Jia
March 13, 2013
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Google seen passing Apple in tablets for first time in 2013
Google Inc.’s software will power more tablets than Apple Inc.’s operating system for the first time this year as smaller, cheaper alternatives to the iPad gain favor with consumers, according to IDC.Devices running Google’s Android software will climb to 49 percent of the market in 2013, while Apple’s share will slip to 46 percent, IDC said in a statement Wednesday. Last year, Apple commanded 51 percent, compared with Google’s 46 percent.Machines introduced since the iPad’s debut in 2010 ― incl
March 13, 2013
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Latest in Galaxy lineup promises more pressure on Apple’s iPhone
Samsung Electronics Co. is making its biggest run yet at the iPhone’s U.S. loyalists, unveiling the new Galaxy S4 a few blocks from Apple Inc.’s flagship store in New York and broadcasting the event live in Times Square.The debut of Samsung’s marquee smartphone, which will be held at Radio City Music Hall tomorrow, lets Samsung bring the fight directly to Apple’s strongest market. The South Korean company is relying on an advertising blitz and cutting-edge features, potentially including a snazz
March 13, 2013
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Two blockbuster games hit Korea
Two blockbuster online games are rushing in with Blizzard Entertainment’s “Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm” and Nexon’s “Korean Baseball 2K.”“Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm” is an expansion pack to the military science fiction real-time strategy game “Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty,” which is now available for purchase in Korea, the U.S., Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and other regions.Blizzard held a launching event in Seoul on Monday to announce the release of the new blockbuster
March 13, 2013