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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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Defense chiefs of US, Australia, Japan decry NK-Russia military cooperation
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Viagra may help treat heart failure
BOCHUM, Germany, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, may ease heart symptoms because it makes stiffened cardiac walls more elastic, U.S. and German researchers say.Dr. Wolfgang Linke of the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Institute of Physiology, in cooperation with colleague
Jan. 2, 2012
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Samsung chief, son to attend CES 2012
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee will attend the annual consumer electronics show in Las Vegas next week to examine the global trend in consumer electronics for this year, an industry source said Sunday.Lee will be accompanied by his son Jae-yong, president of Samsung Electronics Co., and several other executives of the world’s biggest manufacturer of memory chips and flat-screen TVs, the source said.Lee Kun-hee last visited the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in 2010 while Jae-yo
Jan. 1, 2012
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Britain releases UFO sighting and policy files
Jan. 1, 2012
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As sales soar, experts warn about energy drinks
Jan. 1, 2012
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Hard year for AT&T after iPhone loss
Jan. 1, 2012
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Big tech expected to keep profit growth
Jan. 1, 2012
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Security apps boost Apple as BlackBerry alternative
Jan. 1, 2012
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Research firm sees Twitter’s advertisement revenue tripling
Jan. 1, 2012
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Sprint to sell dual-screen Kyocera phone
Jan. 1, 2012
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Telcos battle tech, bank titans for mobile payments
Jan. 1, 2012
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Apple's Jobs puts on lively iPad 2 show
Jan. 1, 2012
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Korean online game limits inch forward, but glacially
Jan. 1, 2012
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Not getting enough sleep? Turn off the technology
Jan. 1, 2012
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HP looks to the ‘cloud’
Jan. 1, 2012
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NASA probe circling the moon on New Year's Eve
PASADENA, California (AP) -- As planet Earth rang in the new year, a different kind of countdown was happening at the moon.After a 3{-month journey, a NASA spacecraft flew over the moon's south pole, fired its engine and dropped into orbit Saturday in the first of two back-to-back arrivals over the
Jan. 1, 2012
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Brainless fish found off Scotland
Marine Scotland / Courtesy Scottish GovernmentA marine survey around islands off Scotland has found a fish-like creature without a face or a brain, researchers said.The creature and others were recorded during a government-backed survey of the waters around Scotland's coast, using underwater video a
Dec. 30, 2011
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Google top US Web destination in 2011: Nielsen
Google was the most-visited Web destination in the United States in 2011, followed by Facebook and Yahoo!, industry tracker Nielsen said Thursday.Google received an average of 153.4 million unique US visitors a month from home and work computers, according to Nielsen.Facebook notched up 137.6 millio
Dec. 30, 2011
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102-year-old woman undergoes colectomy
Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital announced on Monday that professor Kim Jun-ki successfully conducted a colectomy on a 102-year-old woman, possibly the oldest patient here to undergo the surgery.The woman, identified by her family name Moon, was diagnosed with two kinds of intestine cancer earlier this year. She received laparascopic surgery to remove tumors on the rectum and colon. Four days after the surgery, her recovery was significant, her doctors said. This is the first time a simultaneous tumor
Dec. 29, 2011
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Medical fees fixed for seven treatments
As early as this summer, medical fees for treatment of seven diseases will be fixed and covered by the national health insurance scheme, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Monday.The seven treatments are cataract surgery, hemorrhoids treatment, tonsil removal, caesarian section, hysterectomy, appendectomy and herniotomy. The program will be applied to local clinics and small hospitals from as early as July next year and extended to general hospitals or top-tier teaching hospitals by July 20
Dec. 29, 2011
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Baby boomers and older lovers not immune to STDs
People who came of age in the 1960s and ‘70s did so in an era of free love. Even the music blasting from the speakers inside those sweet street machines told them it was OK to have sex anytime, anywhere and with anyone.Stephen Stills’ first solo hit in 1970 may have put it best: “If you can’t be with the one you love, honey, love the one you’re with.”Now, it appears some of those “kids” weren’t taught much about such things as sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs. And if the health teacher did
Dec. 29, 2011