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Yoon, Lee end first talks with differences, agree to meet more
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What is Hybe’s next move?
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China outpaces Korea in smaller OLED shipments for 1st time
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[Grace Kao] Hybe vs. Ador: Inspiration, imitation and plagiarism
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[Herald Interview] Mom’s Touch seeks to replicate success in Japan
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Police to open alleged stalking probe over pastor over Dior bag scandal
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'Queen of Tears' finale sets record viewership ratings as tvN's most-watched series ending
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[News Focus] Lee tells Yoon that he has governed without political dialogue
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Seoul to deploy more military doctors to fill med prof void
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Liberal bloc moves to rewrite student rights ordinance
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Singles need more money when ill, elderly
Singles, especially those without children, will need to budget more money for healthcare in old age than those who are married, U.S. researchers say. The MetLife Mature Market Institute's monthly Market Trends report said the 2010 Census revealed married couples are 48 percent of U.S. households. Those with children age 18 and younger comprised just 20 percent of households and those with two children were 8 percent. From a planning perspective it is harder to control costs when injured
Oct. 19, 2012
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Personality is revealed by the body’s position: research
A British news report said a new research found that more than half of people in the U.K. tend to curl up their bodies in a fetal position when they sleep in bed -- which indicates that they are worriers.About 58 percent of people researched sleep with their knees up and heads down, the report said.The second-most common position, 28 percent, was the “log,” which can be associated with people’s rigid personalities, according to body language expert Robert Phipps.Phipps categorized four sleeping
Oct. 19, 2012
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Study: Dolphins are always half awake
Dolphins can remain alert for two weeks at a time with no sign of fatigue because only half of their brains sleep at a time, U.S. researchers say.Researchers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego and colleagues found dolphins can use echolocation with near-perfect accuracy continuously for as long as 15 days, identifying targets and monitoring their environment.The researchers studied two dolphins, one male and one female, and found that they were capable of this task with no sig
Oct. 19, 2012
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Translation app tops chart to mixed reviews
As the automatic translation application “GenieTalk” has taken the No. 1 spot on AppStore’s free popular app chart just one day after launching, early adopters across the nation and overseas are busy posting reviews on social network services ― on both the good and the bad. “GenieTalk,” a free Korean-English translation app developed by the Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institution with support from the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, was introduced on Wednesday and jumped straight t
Oct. 18, 2012
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Bruxism (teeth clenching or grinding)
Some of us will have had the experience of sleeping next to a person who grinds their teeth. Occasional teeth grinding is not a big deal, but if this happens regularly, it causes inconvenience for both the person and those around them.Bruxism often occurs during sleep and it seems to be one of many known sleep disorders. The mechanism of bruxism is believed to be similar to that of kicking your leg during sleep.There are several hypotheses to explain the possible causes of bruxism. Traditional v
Oct. 18, 2012
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Korea on propofol alert
The 2009 death of pop legend Michael Jackson brought propofol, the anesthetic that killed him, to the world’s attention. Before the tragic incident, people knew little about the drug and how dangerous it could be when administered for non-medical purposes and by unqualified personnel.Korea is no longer safe from the threat of propofol too, as a series of the drug abuse cases involving the anesthesia drug have been reported. Propofol has been classified as a psychotropic drug since last year in K
Oct. 18, 2012
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Anipang boom boosts mobile game growth
South Koreans have a thing for lining up objects. Omok, a traditional board game in which two players compete to first line up five baduk stones, has flourished as a favorite pastime throughout generations.A similar game that requires nimbler hands, smartphones and mobile messenger friends, is now sweeping South Korea, one of the world’s most digitalized countries, as a new pastime.Whether it be a commuter subway or a lunchtime cafeteria queue, it’s easy to spot people squinting their eyes and c
Oct. 18, 2012
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NHN selects game literature winners
NHN Corp., the nation’s leading Internet portal operator, hosted its literature awards ceremony in Seoul on Thursday to foster creative talent shedding light on the genre. NHN Game Literary Award, an annual event taking place for the third time, was presented to 24 teams of awardees this year, including grand-prix winner Lee Byung-ha, whose work was chosen from a total of 1,500 long and short game scenarios. “At first we were unsure whether we could carry on, but now we see that the game literat
Oct. 18, 2012
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“GenieTalk” tops app chart to mixed reviews
As the automatic translation application “GenieTalk” has taken the No. 1 spot on AppStore’s free popular app chart just one day after launching, early adopters across the nation and overseas are busy posting reviews on social network services -- on both the good and the bad.“GenieTalk,” a free Korean-English translation app developed by the Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institution w
Oct. 18, 2012
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Planet found at sun's closest neighbor
(ESO-UPI)European astronomers say they've discovered a planet about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system, the nearest star system to Earth.Alpha Centauri, only 4.3 light-years away, is actually a triple star -- a system consisting of two stars similar to the Sun orbiting close to each other, designated Alpha Centauri A and B, and a more distant and faint red component
Oct. 18, 2012
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‘Housework’ makes female dragons die young
(UPI)Female Komodo dragons live just half as long as males on average and it's all down to physically demanding "housework," Australian researchers say.Females tied to tasks of building huge nests and guarding eggs for up to six months live for around 32 years, as compared to 60 years as an average lifespan for a male dragon, they said.A research team that included scientists from the University o
Oct. 18, 2012
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Giant smashup created the Moon, say scientists
(NASA-UPI)A chemical quirk found in lunar soil backs a 37-year-old theory that the Moon was born from an apocalyptic collision between Earth and a huge space rock, scientists said on Wednesday.Way back in 1975, astronomers proposed at a conference that billions of years ago, our satellite was created through a smashup between the infant Earth and a Mars-sized body they named Theia, in Greek mythol
Oct. 18, 2012
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Tablet owners reading more publications
Nearly 2 in 5 U.S. tablet owners read newspapers and/or magazines on their device, with 1 in 10 reading publications almost daily, a survey found.The poll by comScore for the three-month period ending August 2012 found 37.1 percent of tablet owners read a newspaper on their device at least once during the month, with 11.5 percent of tablet owners reading newspapers almost every day.Kindle Fire users displayed the strongest activity in reading newspapers and magazines on their device, a comScore
Oct. 18, 2012
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Free Korean-English translation app introduced
The Ministry of Knowledge Economy unveiled Wednesday a smartphone application that automatically translates Korean and English to help ease the language barrier. “GenieTalk” offers translation services through both speech recognition and text. The application is designed to help out those who face difficulties communicating when visiting Korea and Koreans who travel abroad. The app contains 270,000 Korean and 65,000 English words.“GenieTalk senses Korean better and shows higher translation accur
Oct. 17, 2012
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Web portals roll out new services for election
Online portals and media are gearing up for the presidential election on Dec. 19.Firms such as SK Communications and Daum recently introduced their respective websites presenting news on the presidential candidates.The National Election Commission also approved the use of the Internet and social networking services for the candidates’ election campaigns. SK Communications, which runs the online portal Nate, said Tuesday that it launched a special webpage for the 18th presidential election focusi
Oct. 17, 2012
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Doosan Heavy bags deal to build wind farm
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., South Korea’s leading power equipment maker, said Wednesday it has clinched a deal to build a wind farm on an island off the west coast of the country.Under the deal with the Korea South-East Power Co., a unit of the state-run Korea Electric Power Corp., Doosan Heavy will build the wind farm in a thermal power plant complex on Yeongheung Island. The wind farm, which will be able to generate up to 24 megawatts of electricity, will start commercial opera
Oct. 17, 2012
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Google rebuked by EU privacy watchdogs on data protection policy
Google Inc. was told by European Union regulators to bolster its privacy policy in a warning that may trigger a new round of clashes with data-protection watchdogs across the bloc. The company “empowers itself to collect vast amounts of personal data about Internet users” without demonstrating that this “collection was proportionate,” the privacy regulators said in a letter Monday to Chief Executive Officer Larry Page, obtained by Bloomberg News. “Google should modify its practices when combinin
Oct. 17, 2012
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LG Display rolls out new 84-inch displays for electronic boards
LG Display announced the launch of an 84-inch ultra definition liquid-crystal display panel to be used for next-generation electronic bulletin boards on Wednesday.Claiming to be the world’s first to introduce such displays, the new 8 million pixel LCD panel is 3.5 times brighter and 8 times more vivid than existing electronic boards that use projectors, its officials said.This indicates that electronic bulletin boards will be similar to a television, enabling users to even view 3-D videos. Peopl
Oct. 17, 2012
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Electronics firms go ‘mini’
Critics raise concerns over strategy of making devices in several sizesWith the rising trend of bigger is better, are wireless gadgets getting too big for the global consumer market?That is the question that comes to mind as major electronics makers push mini versions of their already-released wireless gadgets.Samsung Electronics unveiled the Galaxy S3 mini at an event in Germany last week.The 4-inch Galaxy S3 mini is 0.8 of an inch smaller than the firm’s flagship smartphone Galaxy S3 but has t
Oct. 17, 2012
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Secrets of mysterious asteroids plumbed
(NASA)U.S. scientists say they have uncovered new clues in the ongoing mystery of the Jovian Trojans -- asteroids that orbit the sun on the same path as Jupiter.The asteroids are unusual in that they travel in packs, with one group leading the way along the orbit in front of the gas giant planet, with a second group trailing behind.Data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has revealed
Oct. 17, 2012