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Yoon sorry for shortcomings but insists policies were right
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1 in 3 Koreans live alone, family types becoming diverse
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S. Korea ‘strongly’ protests Japan’s claim over Dokdo in diplomatic bluebook
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US 'incredibly concerned' about suspected NK-Iran military ties
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Korean won weakens amid heightened uncertainty
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Korea, Japan finance chiefs vow to tame rampant FX market volatility
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Seoul says will cut power to porn festival planned on Han River
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Sewol victims commemorated on tragedy's 10th anniversary
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Chanel, Louis Vuitton see muted growth in Korea
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K-pop group's manager dismissed for setting up spycam in theater dressing room
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Park’s life cycle health, welfare system put to test
Following is the eighth in a series of articles on President-elect Park Geun-hye’s key policies. ― Ed.President-elect Park Geun-hye used to say that her foremost task is to bring stability to people’s lives if she becomes the nation’s first female president. Projecting her image of a guardian of the state and of the people, Park pledged to introduce a Korean version of a lifecycle health and welfare system with programs tailored to all age groups from newborns to senior citizens.Park’s plans see
Dec. 27, 2012
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Growth plate injury
Growing children have growth plates around their joints, which promote growth of the upper and lower limbs. Such growth plates disappear when children pass puberty, and their growth stops. These growth plates are made of cartilage tissue, which is vulnerable to damage by external forces. Therefore, various traumas can lead to growth plate damage. Children enjoy outside activities and sports when the weather becomes warmer. This is why growth plate injuries most frequently occur in the spring and
Dec. 27, 2012
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BossPack wins global packaging award
Packaging company BossPack Co. has been selected as next year’s winner of the WorldStar Packaging Award, presented by the World Packaging Organization, for inventing unique water-absorbing package film, the company said on Thursday. To be presented in May at an award ceremony in Australia, the 2013 WorldStar Packaging Award is conferred to globally competing firms that demonstrated innovative packing technologies in seven sectors: electronics, household, pharmaceutical and medical, health and be
Dec. 27, 2012
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Water-absorbing vacuum cleaners see success
Vacuum cleaners that can both dust and “wash” the floor have been gaining popularity in online stores, offline home appliance shops and on TV home shopping channels. Demand for hydro vacuum cleaners is ever rising, said chief executive Park Myung-duk of Chung Lim Aqua Co., a manufacturer specializing in cleaning equipment and agents. “The vacuum cleaner market operates on one of the fastest-changing trends both at home and overseas,” Park emphasized. In less than a decade, the global trend of va
Dec. 27, 2012
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Mark Zuckerberg‘s sister angered after family Facebook photo goes public
The confusion around Facebook‘s oft-criticized privacy settings hit close to home for founder Mark Zuckerberg, when his sister noticed that a photo she had meant to be private went public. On Christmas Day, Randi Zuckerberg posted a Facebook photo of her family -- including Mark -- reacting in mock surprise to the company’s new Poke app. When Callie Schweitzer, Vox Media‘s director of marketing, saw the photo at the top of her feed, she assumed it was public and promptly tweeted it to her follo
Dec. 27, 2012
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Smoking may worsen hangovers
A study of college students found those who smoked while drinking were more likely to report hangover symptoms after heavy drinking, U.S. researchers say.The study, scheduled to be published in the January issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, also found about one-quarter of people who drink enough to spur a hangover in most didn‘t actually develop one, and while no one is sure what that is, the study suggests smoking may be a factor.“At the same number of drinks, people who smok
Dec. 27, 2012
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Korean Peninsula hit by 56 quakes in 2012
As many as 56 earthquakes hit the Korean Peninsula this year, the second largest number since the nation began seismic observations in 1978, the state weather agency said Thursday.A 3.9 magnitude earthquake that was reported in Muju in the central region on May 11 was the strongest one of the year, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA).This year's tally compares with the annual average of 43.6 quakes between 1999 and 2011, the weather agency said, adding a record-setting 60
Dec. 27, 2012
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DRAM inventory rebounds on sluggish PC sales
The inventory of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips has recently bounced back amid a continued slump in the global PC market, spawning concerns on chip price recovery, data showed Thursday.The DRAM inventory of global suppliers stood at 12.2 weeks in the third quarter of the year, compared with 10.4 weeks in the previous quarter, according to the data by IHS iSuppli.The increase, the first in four quarters, comes amid feeble demand for PCs that use DRAM chips as a key component.Despite
Dec. 27, 2012
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Sony in talks to sell battery unit
Sony Corp. is in talks to sell its battery business to Japan’s state-backed investment fund, said a person with direct knowledge of the negotiations. Innovation Network Corp. of Japan hasn’t made an offer for the acquisition, said the person, who declined to be identified as the information isn’t public. Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the world’s largest contract maker of electronics, has also shown interest in the buyout, the Nikkei newspaper reported Dec. 22. Sony’s Chief Executive O
Dec. 26, 2012
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Online music costs to double in 2013
The monthly fee for freely listening to music online is expected to more than double next year.The nation’s largest online music service portal Melon has decided to raise its current 3,000 won monthly plan, which provides unlimited access to listen to its music, to 6,000 won, sources said. The price of Melon’s monthly plan to download up to 150 songs will also rise, from 9,000 won to 15,000 won, according to the sources. LOEN Entertainment Inc., which runs Melon, said on Tuesday that the new rat
Dec. 26, 2012
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Telepresence robots allow employees to ‘beam’ into work
PALO ALTO, California (AP) ― Engineer Dallas Goecker attends meetings, jokes with colleagues and roams the office building just like other employees at his company in Silicon Valley.But Goecker isn’t in California. He’s more than 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) away, working at home in Seymour, Indiana.It’s all made possible by the Beam ― a mobile video-conferencing machine that he can drive around his company’s offices and workshops in Palo Alto. The five-foot (1.5-meter)-tall device, topped wit
Dec. 26, 2012
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Suspension and fines blow to telecoms
It was no surprise that the state telecom watchdog on Monday handed business suspension penalties to the country’s three mobile carriers following their release of massive subsidies for smartphone purchases.The move had been widely expected as the subsidy war escalated in the latter half of this year, which left many early LTE handset buyers, who paid full price, complaining about the price fluctuations.The shipping prices of many LTE smartphones, which run on the fourth-generation communication
Dec. 26, 2012
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Apps that help you stick to new year’s resolutions
A wide range of smartphone applications can help make new year’s resolutions last longer, especially for popular health-related goals.For those who have decided to exercise more or lose weight in 2013, there are applications such as “RunKeeper” or “DietBet.” “RunKeeper” measures the running distance through GPS. It tracks not only the distance but also the speed and calculates the calories burned. “DietBet” offers a motivational tool with a four-week course designed to help users lose 4 percen
Dec. 26, 2012
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Too much eating like jet lag to body clock
Excessive eating and drinking disrupts the body‘s clock similar to jet lag, U.S. researchers say.Dr. Louis Ptacek of the University of California, San Francisco, who is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, said the protein PKC is critical in resetting the food clock if eating habits change.The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed normal laboratory mice given food only during their regular sleeping hours would adjust their food clock o
Dec. 26, 2012
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Rumors tip lighter, thinner Apple iPad
Apple is developing a thinner, lighter fifth-generation iPad sharing some design points with the recently released iPad Mini, a Japanese tech blog is reporting.The Macotakara site also said Apple‘s next iPad Mini would feature the high-resolution Retina display many had expected on the first version, CNET reported Monday.The rumored next full-size iPad is another case of the accelerated product life cycle Apple seems to be favoring; the fourth-generation model was released last month, just eight
Dec. 25, 2012
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Study: Hawaiian island slowly dissolving
The mountains on Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands are dissolving from within under the slow but inexorable onslaught of groundwater, researchers say.Sometime in the distant future the mountainous tropical island will be reduced to a flat, low-lying island similar to Midway, scientists at Brigham Young University reported Friday.While external erosion is the primary force that wears down mountains, that's not the case on Oahu, they said."We tried to figure out how fast the island is going away and wh
Dec. 24, 2012
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Chinese manufacturers sell Apple knockoff cables at bargain price
Chinese companies are competitively releasing cheap replicas of the Lightning Cable, which is exclusively designed for Apple’s new devices including the iPhone 5 and iPad mini.The Korea Herald confirmed on Monday that multiple Chinese online shopping malls are offering duplicated 8-pin Lightning Cables for about only $2 each, compared to Apple’s original Lightning Cables at $19 per unit.The discount is steeper if the cables are bought by wholesale outlets. Through Alibaba, one of the biggest onl
Dec. 24, 2012
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Expanding waistlines may be due to alcohol
Those who can‘t lose weight despite exercising and cutting back on high-calorie food may be drinking too many calories from beverages, a U.S. dietitian says.Kari Kooi, a registered dietitian at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, said the empty calories from alcohol can add up fast, and alcohol lowers inhibitions, meaning resistance to high-calorie foods becomes futile.“Reduce or cut out alcohol consumption,” Kooi said in a statement. “Increased alcohol consumption will lead to unwanted pounds an
Dec. 24, 2012
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Revealed: The mystery of Rudolph‘s nose
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer‘s snout has been immortalised in movies, books and song. But until now, no-one has offered a scientific explanation for the glow that allows the world’s most famous antlered herbivore to guide Santa‘s sleigh through the night before Christmas.In a study released Monday, researchers in the Netherlands and Norway used a hand-held microscope to examine the nasal lining of five healthy humans, two reindeer and a sixth person with a non-cancerous nasal growth.Reindeer n
Dec. 24, 2012
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Kakao Talk use triples in 5 months
Kakao, the developer of mobile messenger app “Kakao Talk,” said Sunday that its now 70 million users spend almost triple the time using the app on average as they did five months ago. The average weekly use of Kakao Talk reached 302 minutes, nearly triple the 107 minutes of the first week of July. In other words, Kakao Talk users run the app for about 43 minutes every day on average. The phenomenon indicates that existing Kakao Talk users rely heavily on the app to send mobile messages, Kakao sa
Dec. 23, 2012