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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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[Herald Interview] Mom’s Touch seeks to replicate success in Japan
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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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'Queen of Tears' finale sets record viewership ratings as tvN's most-watched series ending
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Police to open alleged stalking probe over pastor over Dior bag scandal
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[News Focus] Lee tells Yoon that he has governed without political dialogue
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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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Seoul to deploy more military doctors to fill med prof void
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Study: Early humans had a taste for grass
About 3 million years ago the diet of our very early ancestors in central Africa is likely to have consisted mainly of tropical grasses, researchers say. A new study led by Oxford University of the fossilized teeth of three early hominim Australopithecus bahrelghazali individuals analyzed carbon isotopes in the teeth and found the signature of a diet rich in foods derived from tropical grasses and sedges, flowering plants resembling rushes, a university release reported. The discovery suggests
Dec. 18, 2012
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Saber-tooth cat fossil found in Nevada
Paleontologists working near Las Vegas say they‘ve made an important and rare fossil find, the bones of a saber-tooth cat.“I hate to say we hit the jackpot, this being Vegas -- but we did!” Eric Scott, curator of paleontology at the San Bernardino County Museum in California, told the Highland (Calif.) News.“Meat-eaters are generally uncommon in the fossil record. This makes fossil remains of extinct carnivores very rare and special -- and very tough to find.”Saber-toothed cats, so named for the
Dec. 18, 2012
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KT launches business messenger
Mobile carrier KT rolled out “olleh biz talk,” a messenger program specialized for corporate use, on Monday. Combining characteristics of a traditional messenger program and smartphone text-messaging, olleh biz talk provides services including chat, message, fax, phone call, audio and photo message, and group message. Unlike traditional messenger programs, olleh biz talk is accessible both through computers and mobile phones. The contact lists are organized by the company’s structure.The messeng
Dec. 17, 2012
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Watching porn may hurt short-term memory: study
People who watch Internet pornography may suffer from short-term memory loss immediately afterward, German scientists have claimed.Researchers from University of Duisberg-Essen conducted a study where they asked 28 German heterosexual men to look at a series of sexual images mixed with non-sexual images such as people laughing, playing sports or carrying a weapon. The average age of participants was 26.The participants were then asked to answer “yes” or “no” on whether or not the image they were
Dec. 17, 2012
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Huge DNA code of the Christmas tree being revealed
To millions of people, the Christmas tree is a cheerful sight. To scientists who decipher the DNA codes of plants and animals, it’s a monster.We’re talking about the conifer, the umbrella term for cone-bearing trees like the spruce, fir, pine, cypress and cedar. Apart from their Yuletide popularity, they play big roles in the lumber industry and in healthy forest ecosystems.Scientists would love to identify the billions of building blocks that make up the DNA of a conifer. That’s called sequenci
Dec. 16, 2012
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Hormone finding could lead to diabetes cure
Korean scientists have discovered the role of a hormone that could help develop medicines to treat and cure diabetes and obesity-associated diseases.Dr. Lee Myung-sik of Samsung Medical Center, who is also a professor at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, led a study into “mitokine” signals, which are sent by cells having trouble with their metabolism. They identified that the signal involved a hormone, encoded as the fibroblast growth factor 21, or FGF21. The hormone is induced by mito
Dec. 16, 2012
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U.S., U.K. oppose Internet supervision
The International Telecoms Union, the United Nations’ agency for information and communications technology, failed to draw consensus on bringing each country’s Internet regulations under the international community’s control. As Internet traffic has far surpassed telephone use, regulatory powers ― including taxation of cross-border cyber traffic, censorship and network neutrality ― have become key issues.The ITU hosted this year’s World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai bet
Dec. 16, 2012
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Research: Tiny robots may think as a group
A U.S. researcher says a swarm of tiny robots could be a better solution to accomplishing tasks than one big one and has made "ping-pong" ball-sized examples.University of Colorado at Boulder computer scientist Nikolaus Correll and his research team have developed a basic robotic "building block" which they hope to reproduce in large quantities to develop increasingly complex systems, the university reported Friday.They've created a swarm of 20 robots, each the size of a Ping Pong ball, which th
Dec. 16, 2012
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Samsung tablet market share doubles in Q3
Samsung Electronics Co. saw its market share in the tablet PC market nearly double in the third quarter from three months earlier as it moved to catch up with rival Apple Inc., data showed Sunday. The South Korean tech giant's global market share reached 18.1 percent in the July-September period, compared with 9.2 percent in the previous quarter, according to the data by research firm Strategy Analytics. Meanwhile, Apple's market share fell to 52.9 percent from 68.4 percent, narrowing the
Dec. 16, 2012
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LG defeats Alcatel-Lucent patent claims
Apple Inc. and LG Electronics Inc. did not infringe an Alcatel-Lucent SA unit’s patents for electronic devices including phones and computers, a jury said.The verdict Thursday came after a trial that began Nov. 27 in federal court in San Diego over a 2010 lawsuit by the Paris- based company’s Multimedia Patent Trust accusing Apple and LG Electronics of copying video-compression technology that allows data to be sent more efficiently over communications media, including the Internet and satellite
Dec. 14, 2012
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Distant ‘binge-eating’ black hole observed
The X-ray jet streaming from a binge-eating black hole in the nearby galaxy of Andromeda has been detected, U.S. and European astronomers say.Classified as an ultraluminous X-ray source or ULX, the object is only the second ever seen in Andromeda, also known as M31, and was the target of an intense observing campaign by orbiting X-ray telescopes and radio observatories on the ground, NASA reported Wednesday.Astronomers say they believe a ULX is a binary system containing a black hole that is rap
Dec. 14, 2012
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Samsung said working on larger Galaxy Note
Just when it seemed smartphone displays couldn‘t get any bigger, tech watchers report South Korea’s Samsung is working on a Galaxy Note with a 6.3-inch screen.As the lines between a phone and tablet blur even further, the Korea Times has said Samsung is working on a Galaxy Note 3 with a screen almost an inch larger that the Note 2‘s 5.5-inch display.The first Galaxy Note, mocked by many as a “phablet” for its 5.3-inch screen, saw decent sales, and the incrementally larger Note 2 was an even bigg
Dec. 14, 2012
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Risk of vitamin D deficiency grows in older people
Koreans are at a growing risk of vitamin D deficiency due to increased hours spent indoors, a report showed Thursday.According to a report by the state-run Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, the number of patients suffering from diseases caused by vitamin D deficiency surged more than eightfold from 1,008 in 2007 to 10,006 in 2011. Medical costs to treat related diseases also jumped nearly 6.5 times. The report showed that the proportion of patients the aging population has surged i
Dec. 13, 2012
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Healthy bathing in winter
With the start of the winter season, increasing numbers of people are complaining of itchy and dry skin. The itchiness and dryness of skin in winter is associated with the cold weather. In countries such as Korea, where there are continental climates and continued dry weather, such skin conditions are quite common. It is more common in those aged 40 years and over, with the symptoms most prominent in the outer surfaces of the arms and the legs. The dry and itchy symptoms can progress to dry ecze
Dec. 13, 2012
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KT chairman Lee joins GSMA board
KT announced Thursday that its chairman Lee Suk-chae would join the 2013-2014 GSMA Board, an association of international mobile operator firms. Scheduled to serve on the 25-member board for two years, Lee plans to strengthen communications among the CEOs of global mobile telecommunications companies and play an active role in the board’s decision making, KT said. South Korean members of the current 2011-2012 GSMA Board include KT president Pyo Hyun-myung and SK Telecom president Ha Sung-min. Ha
Dec. 13, 2012
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More 50-60s use smart device than ever
The number of smart device users in their 50s and 60s rapidly increased in 2012 from last year, data showed Thursday.According to research by the Korea Communications Commission and the Korea Internet Security Agency conducted between July 1 and Sept. 15 on some 73,000 participants, the number of owners of smart devices in their 50s increased nearly fivefold in just one year, from 9.5 percent in 2011 to 46.8 percent in 2012. Smart-device users in their 60s steeply increased over the same period
Dec. 13, 2012
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Female Atlantic mollies find flirty males more attractive: study
Flirting helps in the fish world, even if it is with another fish of the same sex, a new study by German scientists indicated.Researchers from the University of Frankfurt found some male Poecilia Mexicana -- a tropical fish otherwise known as Atlantic Molly -- are able to attract female partners by demonstrating homosexual tendencies.According to the findings they published in the journal Royal Society Biology Letters, the female tropical fishes evaluate a potential partner’s virility by his ten
Dec. 13, 2012
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Russian mobile phone to offer two screens
A Russian company says it is launching a smartphone with two screens, an LCD color display and a monochrome e-ink display, both 4.3 inches in size.The company, Yota Devices, says the YotaPhone offers two screens that can be used for different functions and purposes, Slash Gear reported Wednesday.Phone users can use the LCS screen for normal phone functions and apps as well as watching videos or playing games, then flip the phone over to the e-ink screen to turn the phone into an e-reader for boo
Dec. 13, 2012
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KT may bid to take over Moroccan mobile carrier
Korean mobile carrier KT is considering taking part in bidding for Moroccan mobile carrier Maroc Telecom, according to news reports on Tuesday. Reuters reported that KT may jump into bidding for the 53-percent stake in Maroc Telecom currently held by French conglomerate Vivendi. Citing two people familiar with the situation, the agency reported that the seller, Vivendi, hopes to make about $7.15 billion. But KT officials neither confirmed nor denied the news. “They (decision makers) said ‘no com
Dec. 12, 2012
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Koreans lead mobile TV trend: report
Before the advent of TV delivered by Internet broadband, old-fashioned, a-la-carte television was king. In those days, viewers could only choose from limited content, in a limited time and space, on a limited device. But beyond the TVs sitting in living rooms and bedrooms, people now have access to TV content through desktop computers and laptops and even smart devices, such as smartphones and tablet PCs.According to ConsumerLab’s annual research in 2012 on TV consumption that was compiled by Er
Dec. 12, 2012