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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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'고질라' 화석 발견, 학계 충격에 휩싸여!
공상과학 영화 속의 괴물 ‘고질라’를 닮은 수수께끼의 화석이 발견되어 과학자들을 당혹스럽게 하고 있다.속칭 ‘고질라 화석’이라고 불리는 이 화석은 지난 3월 미국 켄터키 주에서 발견되었고 길이가 190cm, 무게가 68킬로그램 정도 나간다.그러나 정작 이 화석이 동물인지, 광물인지, 식물인지조차 알 수 없어 과학자들을 당황시키고 있다.화석을 발견한 아마추어 고생물학자 론 파인 씨는 이 화석이 고질라를 닮았다는 이유로 ‘고질루스’라고 이름을 붙였다. 그는 이 사건이 “궁극적인 미해결사건”이라고 말했다.또한 파인씨는 이 화석들의 표면으로 보면 뿌리혹들 중 하나는 아닌 것 같고, 뼈가 없는 것으로 보아 생선도 동물도 아닌, 물에서 서식하는 산호나, 스펀지, 또는 해초류 중 하나로 보인다고 밝혔다. (코리아헤럴드)
May 25, 2012
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Woman accused of trying to infect landlord
A Salem, Mass., woman was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon for trying to give her landlord scabies, police say. (MCT)Police were called to the woman's apartment building Saturday after she and her landlord got into an argument over bugs and mice in the building, The Salem News reported.The landlord called an exterminator to the building to deal with the woman's complaint, but the exter
May 22, 2012
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Michael Jackson wanted to marry me: Brazil’s Xuxa
Brazil’s children’s television show host Xuxa has revealed that the late Michael Jackson wanted to marry her and that she had been sexually abused as a child.Maria da Graca Meneghel, better known as “Xuxa,” made the surprise disclosure in a television interview that shocked the country late Sunday.“The entourage of Michael Jackson wanted him to marry, have children. They were looking for someone.
May 22, 2012
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Apple's Cook top-paid U.S. CEO in 2011: report
Apple chief executive Tim Cook topped the list of the best-paid CEOs in the US in 2011 thanks to stock options that put him more than $300 million above his next rival, a Wall Street Journal survey showed Monday.Cook, who took the helm of the iPhone and iPad maker in August last year, two months before the death of founder Steve Jobs, clocked in total compensation of $378 million.Cook earned $900,
May 22, 2012
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Facebook launches K-pop page
Facebook said Monday it has launched a K-pop music page to help fans of Korean pop music around the world to engage with their favorite K-pop stars more actively. The page, provided jointly by Facebook and Korea’s largest entertainment agency SM Entertainment, will be updated with the latest K-pop news and content in both Korean and English.On Monday morning at 11 a.m., Seoul time, the K-pop page had photos and information from the SM Town Concert in Los Angeles. The page is seen at www.facebook
May 21, 2012
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Hilarious YouTube video shows ‘Gramp’ schooling street-ballers
A comical video clip of a seemingly old man taking on young basketball players is entertaining hundreds of thousands online.In this video, “uncle Drew,” is asked by his “nephew” to play in place of an injured player during a pick-up basketball game.After air-balling first couple of shots, uncle Drew starts draining threes, crossing over opponents before finally throwing an alley-oop pass to himself and throwing it down.“Too easy out here against these young buds,” boasts uncle Drew.Spectators ca
May 21, 2012
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to ``married'' on Saturday.Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, California, home, capping a busy week for the couple.Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the Univer
May 20, 2012
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Japanese lobbying against N.Y. ‘comfort women’ memorial backfires
Japanese officials’ demand to remove a monument dedicated to the memory of wartime sex slaves in New Jersey has backfired, according to the New York Times. The Times said Japanese lobbying to remove the monument had made the Korean community there determined to build more of themAccording to the article, James Rotundo, the mayor of Palisades Park, where the monument is located, said the lobbying began late last month when Japanese officials sent e-mails requesting a meeting with the borough admi
May 20, 2012
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Men equate steak with masculinity
Men connect eating meat -- especially muscle meat like steak -- with masculinity, but vegetables were not considered masculine, U.S. scientists found.(MCT)Study authors Paul Rozin of the University of Pennsylvania, Julia M. Hormes of Louisiana State University, Myles S. Faith of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Brian Wansink at Cornell University said several studies showed meat ge
May 18, 2012
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Korean shellfish at risk for feces exposure, U.S. says
The U.S. is curbing shellfish imports from South Korea after food safety regulators determined that inadequate sanitation may have exposed oysters, mussels, clams and scallops to human fecal waste. The Food and Drug Administration removed Korean shippers from its certified shellfish list on May 1, Curtis Allen, an agency spokesman, said in an e-mail today. The FDA cited risks from water and land-b
May 18, 2012
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Seoul buses run uninterrupted after union, management strike deal
Buses in Seoul were running smoothly Friday after unionized drivers struck a last-minute wage deal with management and scrapped plans to strike.(Yonhap News)The breakthrough agreement came after marathon talks between the union and management, who agreed to a 3.5 percent wage increase and a 40,000 won (US$34) increase in extra pay for accident-free driving, officials said.Plans to strike from 4 a.
May 18, 2012
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S. Korean satellite successfully reaches earth's orbit
South Korea's multipurpose satellite equipped with a high-resolution camera successfully reached the earth's orbit after blasting off from a Japanese space center, the government said Friday.The Arirang 3 satellite, which lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center south of Kyushu Island at 1:39 a.m. on Japan's H-IIA rocket has made contact with ground stations, indicating that it has entered a c
May 18, 2012
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Study: Students can have fun without booze
(Yonhap Photo)Research indicates students in college can have as good a time at a party if they don't drink, U.S. researchers suggest.Lori Scott-Sheldon of the Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I., analyzed data on 19 studies involving more than 1,400 U.S. college students.The study, published in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behavior, found students were less likely to drink alcohol when the
May 17, 2012
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Coffee buzz: Study finds java drinkers live longer
One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn't matter.The study of 400,000 people is the largest ever done on the issue, and the results should reassure an
May 17, 2012
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Man keeps son’s bride as sex slave
A Pakistani father-in-law, 56, who kept his son’s bride as a sex slave was caught when she learned enough English to call 999.The 22-year-old Pakistani bride came to the U.K. following an arranged marriage and the father-in-law imprisoned and made her swear on the Koran that she would keep the abuse a secret. When she came to the U.K. in 2008 at the age of 18 she wasn’t able to speak English but after three months she learned enough to phone 999 emergency to ask for help. She said that she conte
May 16, 2012
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Junsu says new music video cost ‘a lot of money’
Junsu, a member of the popular music group JYJ and a rising musical star, said on Wednesday that he wouldn't mind if he was called Xia Junsu, which he had used for the formerly five-member boyband TVXQ.He said that his newest music video of “Tarantallegra,” the first single from his solo album, may be one of the most expensive music videos he has ever made.“If you had watched it, you could’ve imagined that it would be one of the most expensive music videos. If I considered only the Korean market
May 16, 2012
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Jogye order hit hard by scandals
The Jogye Order, South Korea’s largest Buddhist sect, is plunging deeper into crisis following a string of revelations of unbecoming and illegal conduct among monks. The scandal erupted last week when Buddhist monk Seongho exposed an all-night gambling and boozing party among his fellow monks, prompting nationwide criticism.He exposed on Tuesday that Ven. Myungjin and the order’s treasury chief Ven. Jaseung went to “room salons,” establishments that often facilitate prostitution. Jogye responded
May 16, 2012
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Ko Young-wook accused of two more sexual assaults
TV celebrity Ko Young-wook, who is under police investigation on allegations of raping a teenager, has been accused of two more sexual assault charges by two other victims, police said Wednesday.Last week, Ko denied allegations that he intentionally got an 18-year-old female entertainer-aspirant drunk to rape her at his home.According to the police, the 36-year-old was summoned again to a police station in Yongsan on Tuesday afternoon over additional allegations and was questioned for more than
May 16, 2012
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Viruses can be tapped for electric power
U.S. researchers say electricity generated by viruses could bring devices that generate power from everyday human activities like walking.A paper-thin "viral" generator embedded in the sole of a shoe could charge a person's phone as they walk, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory said.The power would be generated by harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricit
May 16, 2012
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Weather girl ‘disappears’ on TV
A U.S. weather woman demonstrated on a live TV show why meteorologists never wear green.Wearing a green dress to show why the color is avoided on TV, FOX 2’s Jessica Starr appeared to disappear into the weather map in the background, leaving just her arms and face visible.The effect was caused by chroma key, also known as a green screen.The technique is used for layering two images or video streams together to remove the background from the subject of a photo or video.During the show, one of the
May 9, 2012