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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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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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S. Korean children, teens grow taller, mature faster than before: study
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[Graphic News] Number of coffee franchises in S. Korea rises 13%
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Some junior doctors are returning: Health Ministry
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Army takes group action against Hybe for neglecting BTS
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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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[Robert J. Fouser] AI changes rationale for learning languages
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Woman dangling from power lines rescued by residents holding blanket
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Ador CEO's request for exclusive right to terminate NewJeans' contract with Hybe refused in February
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MUFON investigating flying saucer in Texas
A photograph of an alleged flying saucer hovering over a Texas oil field that surfaced on the Internet may be authentic, a UFO investigator says.The photo, which has a July 5 time stamp, appeared on the Mutual UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) Network website last week and was allegedly taken by a security camera at an oil drilling site in Eagle Ford, the San Antonio (Texas) Express-News reported.Charles Stansburge, a veteran MUFON investigator, said the photo has passed two authenticity tests."I
Jan. 14, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Tragic death of online activist Aaron Swartz
A dreadful, if not downright scary, scenario is the end of free content on the Internet. What if you had to pay a fee for each and every piece of digital content you browsed on the Web? What if there were no Wikipedia, and no free news feeds from tens of thousands of media outlets? Aaron Swartz, a pioneering programmer, envisioned a cyberspace where online content is freely available. But before his vision was realized in full, he tragically ended his life at the age of 26, U.S. authorities conf
Jan. 13, 2013
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S. Korea expected to launch space rocket on Jan. 25
South Korea is expected to try again to launch its space rocket later this month after successfully conducting experiments to check if all systems are working properly, a government source said Sunday. The official said South Korean and Russian researchers are expected to discuss results of repairs made to the rocket late last year and touch on the present state of the Naro-1 rocket. He added Seoul successfully carried out combustion tests on the kick motor on the locally built second stage
Jan. 13, 2013
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Global handset shipments top 1.74 billion in 2012
Worldwide sales of mobile phones, including smartphones and feature phones, reached 1.74 billion last year, growing 1.8 percent from the previous year, data showed Sunday.The on-year growth was attributed to robust demand for some of the latest models in the smartphone market, such as Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2 phones as well as Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5, according to the data by Strategy Analytics.Strong shipments of the Samsung and Apple phones, combined with seasonal de
Jan. 13, 2013
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LINE eyes 100 million users
NHN Japan, a subsidiary of South Korea's top portal operator NHN Corp., is likely to see the number of its "LINE" messenger users break the 100 million mark this week, sources said Sunday. LINE, launched in June 2011, is the company's free group messenger application that runs on the Android, Blackberry and iOS operating systems. The service, which has been launched in roughly 230 countries, has ranked No. 1 in downloads on Google Play and App Store platforms in 41 countries. After garne
Jan. 13, 2013
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Gov't to conduct detailed safety tests on Gori, Wolsong reactors
The government plans to conduct detailed safety tests on two nuclear reactors that have exceeded their original operating life cycles to ensure no problems occur, an official said Sunday. The official, who declined to be identified, said the Nuclear Safety Commission will include plans to conduct so-called stress tests on the Gori 1 and Wolsong 1 reactors in a report to President-elect Park Geun-hye's transition committee. A stress test refers to a series of experiments that push the reactors
Jan. 13, 2013
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Samsung teams up with Japan firms for memory tech
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chip and smartphone maker, said Friday it has set up a joint venture in the United States with Japanese tech giants as they move to develop new memory technologies.Samsung, Panasonic Corp., Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. launched “Next Generation Secure Memory” earlier this month to collaborate on a new content protection technology for flash memory cards that are used in mobile devices.The four participants respectively own 25-percent stakes in the
Jan. 11, 2013
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Korea’s economic freedom ranking falls: report
NEW YORK (Yonhap News) ― The world ranking of South Korea’s economic freedom dropped by three notches this year, an international report said Thursday, citing the country’s corruption problems as hurting “equity” and “trust” in the government.According to the report jointly compiled by the U.S. think tank Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, South Korea came in 34th out of 177 countries in terms of economic freedom, down from 31st last year. It also ranked 8th out of 41 Asia-Pacific
Jan. 11, 2013
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Moons outside the solar system may have habitable zones
Even exoplanets, where living creatures cannot exist, still have possibility to host exomoons with habitable zones, U.S. scientists said. An exoplanet is one that orbits a star other than the sun.Astronomers have long researched exoplanets to discover an environment that can support life. However, most of them are of gaseous form and only a few have a solid surface on which living creatures can survive.Rory Barnes of the University of Washington and the NASA Astrobiology Institute said in a stat
Jan. 11, 2013
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Antarctic lake reached after millennia
Russian researchers say they've obtained the first sample of transparent ice from the water of a unique sub-glacial lake in Antarctica.The scientists have drilled into Lake Vostok, sealed for the last 20 million years beneath Antarctica's ice sheet at a depth of 2.3 miles, RIA Novosti reported Thursday.Vostok, the largest of Antarctica's buried network of icebound lakes, may reveal new forms of life and show how life evolved before the ice age, the scientists said."The first core of transparent
Jan. 11, 2013
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Amazon.com ramps up challenge to iTunes music store
Amazon.com on Thursday launched a service that gives compact disk buyers instant copies of music in the Internet “cloud” in a major challenge to Apple‘s iTunes shop.Amazon AutoRip provides free MP3 versions of music on CDs bought from the online retail titan.Copies of tunes are stored in Cloud Player libraries on datacenter servers and can be streamed to an array of Internet-linked devices including smartphones or tablets powered by Android or Apple software and Kindle Fire tablets.“What would y
Jan. 11, 2013
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Device produces 'high-tech bulimia'
A device sucks food out of the stomach after eating so only about a third of the calories are kept in the body, helping in weight loss, its U.S. inventors say.The group of inventors, including the creator of the Segway, said patients eat a meal, wait 20 minutes, then empty 30 percent of their stomach contents into the toilet via a tube -- a small, handheld device, which connects to a skin-port discretely embedded on the outside of the abdomen.Calories not digested are calories not absorbed, whic
Jan. 11, 2013
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Ministry to support eye-drop vaccine project
The Ministry of Health and Welfare will offer 3.4 billion won ($3.2 million) of funding to a research project developing eye-drop vaccines, officials said.The fund will be given to a team led by professor Seo Kyong-ryul of Severance Hospital in Seoul for the next five years. Seo has been developing an eye-drop vaccine to prevent typhoid fever as alternative to existing vaccines injected through needles.The state-run Korea Institute for Science and Technology and Huons, a local bio-tech firm, wil
Jan. 10, 2013
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Ceragem’s hemoglobin tester gets KFDA’s approval
CERA-CHEK HB Plus, a hemoglobin tester developed by Ceragem Medisys, has obtained approval from Korea Food and Drug Agency and will be promoted in the local markets, the bio-tech firm said in a statement Thursday.Ceragem is the first company in Korea to apply new electro-chemical biosensor technology to a product. The latest technology allows customers check the level of hemoglobin in their blood within 5 seconds and with only 1 micro-liter of blood, it said.The product features a side-grip stri
Jan. 10, 2013
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‘Digital health’ movement in focus at CES
LAS VEGAS (AFP) ― With an app, a game or a gadget, technology startups and major companies across all sectors are trying to tackle some of the thorniest problems in health and medicine.The Consumer Electronics Show is filled with new gadgets to monitor fitness, detect problems and find solutions to health issues ranging from obesity to diabetes to rare medical conditions.One trend is “gamification,” which uses a model from the video game industry to offer points and rewards to boost health and r
Jan. 10, 2013
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Samsung hospital completes Korea’s first artificial heart pump transplant
A Seoul hospital has successfully conducted the first-ever transplant of an artificial heart pump in the country, hospital officials said Thursday.The operation took place in August when a 75-year-old patient suffering from congestive heart failure received a left ventricular assist device (VAD), according to the officials at Samsung Medical Center.A VAD is a mechanical circulatory device typically used for patients suffering from congestive heart failure. The left VAD used in the operation was
Jan. 10, 2013
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Seoul to tighten safety control of postpartum clinics
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said on Thursday that it will strengthen the safety management of postpartum centers across the country, to improve their sanitation and prevent possible infection from spreading in the facilities.Postpartum care centers or clinics are non-medical businesses that offer full-time services to new mothers for a week or more to help them recuperate after giving birth. The number of these clinics has surged rapidly in recent years, despite prices for the services ra
Jan. 10, 2013
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‘Apollo’ eye infection spreads fast
The highly contagious “Apollo” eye infection is rapidly spreading across the country as people are more exposed to viruses indoors during the winter, health authorities warned on Thursday.The number of patients with acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis surged nearly 65 percent in the third week of December last year from the average number of patients reported during the four weeks before that, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The number of patients is also higher than the same
Jan. 10, 2013
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A low-salt diet
A low-sodium diet is one with a limited amount of salt taken in with food. The sodium component in salt is a risk factor for high blood pressure, edema, kidney diseases and cardiac disease, as sodium is a mineral that draws in and retains moisture, affecting the balance of body fluids. In this case, reducing the intake of salt helps to control blood pressure, ease edema, and reduce stress on the heart.How to follow a low-salt diet 1. Things to be aware of when choosing food: On a preferential ba
Jan. 10, 2013
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Samsung targets 55 million in TV sales this year
LAS VEGAS ― Samsung Electronics said Thursday that it has set its TV sales goal at 55 million units for this year, as it strives to find a new business model in an industry that has been slowing down for years.Yoon Boo-keun, president of consumer electronics at Samsung, said the firm hopes to sell more TVs than the 51.3 million it sold last year.He also said that Samsung, the world’s top TV maker, did not see any competition in the industry, but it believes new competition will rise in other ind
Jan. 10, 2013