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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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Apple’s iPhone poised for record as China joins global debut
Apple Inc. attracted long lines of shoppers today for the global debut of its latest iPhones, the company’s biggest product introduction this year.In New York, customers lined up around the block to get into Apple’s flagship Fifth Avenue store, while in Munich about 2,000 gathered to buy the new iPhone 5s and 5c, and in London the waiting crowd stretched about a mile. Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and other executives visited customers at stores in Palo Alto, California, near the compan
Sept. 21, 2013
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Samsung, LG likely to falter in third quarter
A number of top brokerages on Monday cut their third-quarter earnings forecasts for Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, but expected both to make a strong comeback in the fourth quarter on improved smart device sales and rising chip demand. Samsung Securities lowered its forecast for Samsung’s third-quarter net profit to 9.8 trillion won ($9 billion) from 10.2 trillion won, while Kyobo Securities also expected a quarterly profit of around 9.8 trillion won. “Sales of consumer electronics are
Sept. 16, 2013
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Confiscation of smuggled gold increases sharply
The customs agency said Monday that it has confiscated a total of 127 kilograms of gold being smuggled into the country so far this year.The amount is much higher than 13 kilograms of confiscated gold last year, according to data provided by the Korea Customs Service. It is valued at 6.8 billion won ($6.3 million). The increase is attributable to the agency’s recently stepped-up crackdown efforts. In May, the KCS launched teams exclusively tasked with investigating gold smuggling attempts. “We h
Sept. 16, 2013
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[Graphic News] Twitter Inc. to go public
Twitter Inc. filed for an initial public offering last week, gearing up for the most high-profile debut in the tech sector since Facebook’s last year. Global attention is also being paid to whether Twitter shares will decline following its IPO as Facebook did.
Sept. 15, 2013
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Samsung closer to ushering in ‘Tizen’ era
Samsung Electronics hinted at the advent of the open-source operating system “Tizen” under co-development with Intel by saying it would apply it to a wide array of products including televisions and smartphones. In a recent interview with Die Welt, a German publication during the IFA 2013 trade show in Berlin, Yoon Boo-keun, Samsung’s chief of consumer electronics business said, “Tizen is going to be used on some of our smartphones, along with our TVs and on home appliances.” He added that this
Sept. 13, 2013
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Public medical spending for seniors soars in H1
Senior citizens' medical expenses covered by South Korea's national health insurance jumped on-year in the first half of 2013, data showed Friday, apparently due to the country's fast-aging trend.According to the data by the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), medical expenses for people aged 65 and older came to 8.9 trillion won (US$8.2 billion) in the January-June period, up 7.8 percent from a year earlier.The number accounts for nearly 36 percent of the 24.7 trillion won spent by the fi
Sept. 13, 2013
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NASA: Voyager 1 probe has left the solar system
Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming the first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, NASA said Thursday.Thirty-six years after it was launched from Earth on a tour of the outer planets, the plutonium-powered probe is more than 11 1/2 billion miles (18.51 billion kilometers) from the sun, cruising through interstellar space _ the vast, cold emptiness between the stars, the space agency said.Voyager 1 actually made its exit more than a year ago, according to NASA. But it's not as if
Sept. 13, 2013
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Samsung to inject $500 mln in Xian plant
Samsung Electronics, the world's leading chipmaker, will be strengthening a part of its operations in China by injecting an additional $500 million into its envisioned plant under construction in the city of Xian.The move came after the company started work on a semiconductor plant in the central Chinese city in September 2012 as a part of its move to diversify production lines and meet growing demand for NAND flash memory chips.The construction project was aimed to be completed by next year, pr
Sept. 12, 2013
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[Graphic News] Arctic ice ice increases 60% in 2013
NASA satellite images showed about 6.9 million square kilometers of the Arctic Ocean covered in ice in 2013, a whopping 60 percent increase from 2012, stoking debate over whether it is a sign of global warming stopping or just a recovery from last year’s lowest level since 1979.
Sept. 12, 2013
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Computer-related conditions
With the increased use of computers and the Internet, many people are spending extended periods of time using computers at work and at home. This has led to an increase in conditions related to such activity. Computer-related health problems are called VDT syndrome, or “computer related diseases.” VDT syndrome refers to pain in the neck and shoulders due to shoulder-arm-neck syndrome, and other musculoskeletal symptoms, fatigued eyes and foreign sensation, skin conditions and neuropsychiatric pr
Sept. 12, 2013
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Suicide, a preventable tragedy
Suicide is preventable, experts say, but only when society starts to take it seriously enough and make more conscious and concerted efforts, areas in which Korea still has a long way to go. “People who commit suicide constantly talk about death and tell their family or friends that they want to die. People near them must take that as an urgent sign and pay the utmost attention to them,” said Lee Weon-young, a preventive medicine professor at ChungAng University in Seoul.“If concerned, their stat
Sept. 12, 2013
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KT tops sustainability index
Mobile service provider KT said Thursday that it was named one of the world’s most sustainable telecommunications companies for three consecutive years in a review by Dow Jones Sustainability Indices.S&P Dow Jones Indices, one of the world’s largest providers of financial market indices, and RobecoSAM, an investment company focusing on sustainable investment, announce the review every year that evaluates 2,500 global firms on their financial and non-financial performance including supply chain m
Sept. 12, 2013
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IT exports jump 11.4% in Aug.
South Korea’s exports of information technology products rose from a year earlier in August, continuing their on-year growth for the 12th consecutive month, the government said Monday.Outbound shipments of IT products reached $14.5 billion last month, up 11.4 percent from the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning.The country‘s trade surplus in the IT sector widened to $8.13 billion, the second highest in the country’s history, as its imports only ga
Sept. 11, 2013
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LG CNS boosts ICT-enabled energy efficiency
LG CNS, an information technology service provider, is pushing to expand the use of smart energy management systems in line with growing interest in power saving and renewable energy around the world. Last month, LG CNS launched its energy management system for small and medium-sized shops, which is designed to reduce energy consumption and simplify energy management. The system automatically cuts off standby power ― power consumed by electronics while they are switched off or in standby mode ―
Sept. 11, 2013
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Logging threatens Monarch butterflies
MEXICO CITY (AP) ― A new study of the Monarch butterflies’ winter nesting grounds in central Mexico says small-scale logging is worse than previously thought and may be contributing to threats facing the Monarch’s singular migration pattern.The reserve’s 13,550-hectare core zone lost 16.6 hectares of pine and fir trees so far in 2013, about half of that because of illegal logging, said the study by Omar Vidal, head of Mexico’s chapter of the World Wildlife Fund, the WWF, and other authors. The r
Sept. 11, 2013
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Astronauts back from space station
MOSCOW (AFP) ― Three astronauts returned to Earth Wednesday on board a Russian Soyuz capsule after a half-year mission on the International Space Station, landing in Kazakhstan, mission control in Moscow announced.Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin landed on schedule at 8:58 a.m. Kazakh time (0258 GMT) in the Kazakh steppe, along with American Chris Cassidy.A live feed on Russian mission control’s website showed rescuers extracting the three astronauts who were helped into chairs i
Sept. 11, 2013
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Solar boat reaches Paris after crossing Atlantic
PARIS (AP) ― The world’s largest solar-powered boat has docked on the banks of the Seine River, its final port of call after a three-month voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to study how the Gulf Stream and climate change could influence each other.The 31-meter-long Turanor PlanetSolar catamaran looks like one of Darth Vader’s TIE Fighters turned on its side.Starting from Miami in June, University of Geneva scientists sailed up the eastern seaboard of the United States, then across the Atlantic, t
Sept. 11, 2013
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Fireball lights up sky over southern states
ATLANTA (AP) ― NASA officials say brilliant lights seen at an outdoor rock concert in Alabama and by eyewitnesses as far away as Georgia and Tennessee came from a meteor that streaked across the night sky.Officials at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville said a baseball-size fragment of a comet entered Earth’s atmosphere above Alabama at 8:18 p.m. Central Time on Monday.NASA officials say the meteor traveled at a speed of 122,310 kph. They say that just three seconds after hitting the
Sept. 11, 2013
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Mobile operators to accept preorders for Galaxy Note 3
South Korea's three mobile carriers -- SK Telecom Co., KT Corp., and LG Uplus Corp. -- said Tuesday they will begin taking preorders this week for Samsung Electronics Co.'s latest Galaxy Note 3, which is expected to hit the local market later this month.South Korean customers can preorder the smartphone on the operators' websites starting Wednesday. Preorders for the newest Galaxy line-up can also be made at the mobile carriers' local retail stores, they said.Samsung, the world's largest smartph
Sept. 10, 2013
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Financial firms ramp up measures against cyber fraud
Financial companies in South Korea will step up their identification process for online users in a broad move to prevent cyber fraud, which is becoming a rampant problem here, the financial regulator said Monday. All financial companies, including banks, insurers, brokerage firms and savings banks, must have their online users identify themselves through either a text message or an automated response system, starting from Sept. 26, according to the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS). An online
Sept. 9, 2013