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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Govt. asks hospitals to mitigate impact of medical professors' absence
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Doggy patrol team on the move to protect their cities
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S. Korea's working-age population to dip nearly 10m by 2044 amid low births
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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Beware of backpack injuries
ATLANTA ― Even if you’re not a parent of school-aged children, the traffic and returning road rage has signaled the beginning of a new school year.But what may not be common knowledge, even to parents, doctors say, are the risks associated with lugging around heavy backpacks.According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, backpack-related injuries send an estimated 5,000 children a year to emergency rooms. More than 14,000 children are treated annually for injuries.Carrying a heavy bac
Aug. 28, 2013
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Science points to a new global warming source: the sea
Oceans that grow more acidic through Man‘s fossil fuel burning emissions, can amplify global warming by releasing less of a gas that helps shield Earth from radiation, a study said Sunday.And the authors warned the potentially vast effect they uncovered is not currently factored into climate change projections.Scientists say that Man’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions contribute to planetary warming by letting the Sun‘s heat through the atmosphere but trapping heat energy reflected back from Earth
Aug. 26, 2013
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LG G Pad to offer same touchscreen as iPad 5
LG Electronics will be using the same touchscreen technology for its upcoming tablet, tentatively named the G Pad, which will be unveiled at IFA next month, according to industry sources on Sunday. Manufactured by LG Display, the 8.3-inch panel for the G Pad will feature the latest GF Ditto technology, also known as GF2 touch-screen technology. It will be the first time LG Display has independently developed and applied the technology, the sources said, without the help of affiliate LG Innotek
Aug. 25, 2013
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Radio communication confirms successful launch of new satellite
YASNY, Russia (Yonhap News) -- South Korea’s new multipurpose satellite made contact with a ground station in the Asian country early Friday, confirming its successful deployment into its target orbit, officials in Yasny said.The first communication contact was made at 2:35 a.m. (5:35 a.m. KST), according to the officials from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).The Korea Multipurpose Satellite-5 (KOMPSAT-5) was launched Thursday from a launch base in Yasny, located some 1,800 kilomete
Aug. 23, 2013
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Radio communication confirms successful launch of S. Korea's new satellite
South Korea's new multipurpose satellite made contact with a ground station in the Asian country early Friday, confirming its successful deployment into its target orbit, officials in Yasny said.The first communication contact was made at 2:35 a.m. (5:35 a.m. KST), according to the officials from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). The Korea Multipurpose Satellite-5 (KOMPSAT-5) was launched Thursday from a launch base in Yasny, located some 1,800 kilometers southeast of Moscow, using
Aug. 23, 2013
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Samsung to launch customized emergency service
Samsung Medical Center will start to offer personalized medical services at its emergency room to improve the quality of care and provide precise diagnoses to patients, the hospital said Thursday.The hospital has developed a computerized communication tool to provide real-time information about the overall treatment process to patients and their families. For instance, monitors installed at each bed will display the expected time of lab test results ordered by physicians or the treatments they h
Aug. 22, 2013
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Avoiding, treating stomach problems
Compared to Western countries, more people in Korea complain of symptoms related to the gastrointestinal system. However, many people tend to dismiss such symptoms and do not see a doctor about it, which can sometimes lead to the progression of serious illnesses, such as gastric cancer. The best methods to maintain a healthy life is to practice healthy lifestyle habits and have regular checkups to diagnose conditions early. Here, we will look at gastritis, gastric ulcers and gastric cancer, whic
Aug. 22, 2013
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Scientists find another flu virus
PARIS (AFP) ― Scientists studying the H7N9 bird flu virus that has killed more than 40 people since March said Wednesday they had discovered another H7-type virus lurking in chickens in China.Dubbed H7N7, the virus was able to infect mammals in a lab experiment, said the team, warning H7 viruses “may pose threats beyond the current outbreak.” “The continuing prevalence of H7 viruses in poultry could lead to the generation of highly pathogenic variants and further sporadic human infections,” they
Aug. 22, 2013
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S. Korea's Arirang satellite gets green light for launch
South Korea was set to launch a multipurpose satellite later Thursday, with the Russian government giving its final approval for the scheduled launch from its Yasny launch base, officials here said.The Korea Multipurpose Satellite 5 (KOMSAT-5) is scheduled for launch at 8:39 p.m. (11:39 p.m. KST), using Russia's Dnepr, a space launch vehicle converted from a Soviet-era intercontinental ballistic missile."No problems have been detected so far, and both the satellite and its launch vehicle are rea
Aug. 22, 2013
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15 minutes to determine fate of Arirang 5 satellite
Nearly eight years have passed since South Korea began developing its latest multipurpose satellite, but the fate of the much anticipated project will be determined in just 15 minutes after liftoff, launch organizers said Thursday.The Arirang 5 satellite was set to be launched at 8:39 p.m. (11:39 p.m. KST) from Russia’s Yasny launch site, some 1,800 kilometers southeast of Moscow, using a Dnepr three-stage rocket converted from Russia‘s conventional intercontinental ballistic missile.In 9.2 seco
Aug. 22, 2013
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LG Display develops Quad HD LCD panel
LG Display Co., a South Korean panel maker, said Wednesday that it has developed a new HD LCD panel for smartphones that offers four times clearer images than existing HD LCD displays.The 5.5-inch Quad HD panel improves contrast and vividness compared to current mobile displays, and enables users to enjoy a full view of PC-version web pages at a single glance without image distortion. This is in contrast to current Full HD displays, which only realize three quarters of a full screen.Also, even w
Aug. 21, 2013
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LG Chem to supply Japan’s Softbank Mobile
LG Chem Ltd., the world’s largest lithium-ion battery maker, said Wednesday that it has signed a deal with Japan’s second-largest mobile carrier to provide batteries starting this month.LG Chem said the batteries will be used as uninterrupted power supply, or UPS, in 130,000 base stations of Softbank Mobile Corp. The UPS is an electrical apparatus that provides emergency power to base stations when the input power fails.The total electricity of the batteries to be provided to the Japanese mobile
Aug. 21, 2013
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Astronaut recounts terror
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― The Italian astronaut who nearly drowned in his helmet during a spacewalk last month is sharing more details about the terrifying experience, revealing how he felt all alone and frantically tried to come up with a plan to save himself.Luca Parmitano wrote in his online blog, posted Tuesday, that he could no longer see as the water sloshed around in his helmet outside the International Space Station.“But worse than that, the water covers my nose ― a really awful sen
Aug. 21, 2013
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Swedish museum recovers lost scientific artifact
AMSTERDAM (AP) ― A rare 16th-century scientific instrument used by early astronomers that has been missing from a Swedish museum for around a decade has been recovered and will be returned this week, the London-based Art Loss Register says.The brass-and-silver astrolabe, made in 1590 and worth around half a million euros ($750,000), turned up when an Italian collector discovered that the piece was listed as missing and came forward to return it, Register Director Chris Marinello said.The collect
Aug. 21, 2013
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SK Hynix builds analysis center for R&D
SK Hynix on Tuesday said it has established an analysis center within its research and development center in its headquarter city of Icheon, Gyeonggi Province. Analysis is an essential step in semiconductor development, especially as demand is growing for intricate and more developed technology procedures, SK Hynix said. “Semiconductors need to be developed without a centimeter of error, for which analysis plays a key role,” said SK Hynix CEO Park Sung-wook. “I hope our new center will lay the f
Aug. 20, 2013
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CIA acknowledges Area 51 but not UFOs
LAS VEGAS (AP) ― UFO buffs and believers in alien encounters are celebrating the CIA’s clearest acknowledgement yet of the existence of Area 51, the top-secret Cold War test site that has been the subject of elaborate conspiracy theories for decades.The recently declassified documents have set the tinfoil-hat crowd abuzz, though there’s no mention in the papers of UFO crashes, black-eyed extraterrestrials or staged moon landings.Audrey Hewins, an Oxford, Maine, woman who runs a support group for
Aug. 20, 2013
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S.F. Bay Area building demolition fuels quake study
HAYWARD, California (AP) ― It took just seconds for a 13-story building overlooking San Francisco Bay to implode, spewing smoke and chunks of concrete as it crumbled into a heap of rubble. But U.S. Geological Survey scientist Rufus Catchings was marveling less at the visual spectacle than what he could feel with his feet.As the building collapsed, the vibrations Catchings noted told him that a novel experiment to study one of the most dangerous fault lines in the country likely was a success. “I
Aug. 20, 2013
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LG Display keeps lead in large LCD panel market
South Korean display giant LG Display Co. kept its dominant position in the market for liquid crystal display (LCD) panels that are 9.1 inches or larger in the first half, data showed Tuesday.Shipments by LG Display reached 88.96 million units in the January-June period, accounting for 26.2 percent of a total 339 million units shipped globally, according to the data by market researcher DisplaySearch.The large LCD panels are usually used for computer monitors, laptop computer screens and TVs.LG
Aug. 20, 2013
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Earliest iron artefacts came from meteorite
The earliest iron artefacts ever found -- funeral beads strung around bodies in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian cemetery -- were made from a meteorite, archaeologists said on Monday.Hi-tech scanning of the beads, discovered by British archaeologists in the Lower Egypt village of el-Gerzeh in 1911, shows the metal came from a rock in outer space, they said.The nine small beads come from two burial sites dated to around 3,200 BC, where they were found in necklaces along with exotic terrestrial minerals
Aug. 20, 2013
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Samsung flat TVs maintain top spot in Europe: data
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of TVs, maintained its lead in Europe’s flat TV market in the first half of the year, industry data showed on Monday.The South Korean tech behemoth accounted for 38 percent of Europe’s flat TV market in the January-June period, according to the data compiled by market researcher GfK.LG Electronics Inc., Samsung’s hometown rival, came in second with a 16.6 percent share, followed by Phillips with a 9.9 percent share, they showed.Samsung accounted
Aug. 19, 2013