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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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Govt. asks hospitals to mitigate impact of medical professors' absence
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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S. Korea's working-age population to dip nearly 10m by 2044 amid low births
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Doggy patrol team on the move to protect their cities
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Sales of eco-friendly cars top 100,000 in Q1 in S. Korea
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Korea logs trade surplus for 13 straight months
SEJONG (Yonhap News) ― South Korea logged a trade surplus for 13 straight months in February despite the prolonged sluggish export growth affected by the global economic slump, customs data showed Thursday.According to the customs-clearance trade figures provided by the Korea Customs Service, South Korea’s exports shrank 8.6 percent on-year to $42.3 billion last month. Imports also dropped 10.6 percent to $40.3 billion.The country’s trade surplus last month, however, came to $2 billion, larger t
March 14, 2013
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Asiana Airlines wins top fuel efficiency rating
Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 flag carrier, has been named the best airline in fuel efficiency in the country, the government said Thursday.The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs made the announcement, citing a test by the Korea Transportation Safety Authority on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions by Asiana Airlines and five other local carriers.Asiana Airlines and Korean Air Lines as well as four other budget carriers signed a voluntary agreement with the ministry
March 14, 2013
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ITC delays Samsung-Apple decision again
A U.S. trade agency has once again delayed its decision on the high-profile patent war between Apple and Samsung, this time based on considerations of how much consumers and the U.S. economy would be hurt should it ban imports of Apple’s iPhones and iPads over a patent held by Samsung Electronics. The U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington was scheduled to issue a final decision in Samsung’s patent infringement case yesterday. Instead, it asked for comments on how a ban would affect t
March 14, 2013
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Men and women smoke for different reasons
Men tend to smoke for fun while women light up to relieve stress, a survey revealed.The survey, commissioned to mark “No Smoke Day” in Britain, showed that 56 percent of the male respondents smoke when they hang out with friends, higher than 48 percent of female smokers.“This is surprising, particularly in the modern day and could be indicative that women potentially attribute an element of shame to their smoking behavior,” said Jo Hemmings, a behavioral psychologist.The research also showed tha
March 14, 2013
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Neanderthal demise down to eye size?
Neanderthals went extinct because they had larger eyes than modern humans that monopolized brain resources to see in the long nights in Europe, scientists say.Modern humans, on the other hand, spent more time in Africa where longer, brighter days required no such adaption and allowed our frontal lobes, associated with higher-level thinking, to evolve further before we moved out of Africa and spread across the globe, they said.Eiluned Pearce of Britain's Oxford University, comparing Neanderthal s
March 14, 2013
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Dwelling on past increases risk of inflammation
A study suggests that people who dwell on past events can increase the risk of inflammation.Researchers in Ohio University recruited 24 young women and asked them to make a speech in front of stoned-faced interviewers.After dividing the participants into two groups, they asked the first group to contemplate on their past memories while asking the second group to think about other things such as sailing in boats and browsing for groceries.Blood samples collected from the first group showed a high
March 14, 2013
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The ‘20-20-20-20’ strategy keeps your eye healthy
U.S. vision health professionals recommended heavy computer users to follow the ‘20-20-20-20’ healthcare strategy to reduce eye strain. The strategy is designed to let people blink for 20 times in every 20 minutes and watch an object 20 feet away for 20 seconds. Office workers and game players often suffer from dry eyes, since they need to use computers for long hours.“Today’s offices are commonly cool and dry, which is nice and comfortable, except for the eyes. Blinking is nature’s way of keepi
March 14, 2013
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Google tosses Reader as house cleaning continues
Google said Wednesday it was tossing its Reader service and seven other products under a house cleaning campaign that has closed 70 of the Internet giant‘s features in the past two years.“These changes are never easy,” Google senior vice president of technical infrastructure Urs Holzle said in a blog post.“But by focusing our efforts, we can concentrate on building great products that really help in their lives.”Reader was launched in 2005 as a way for people to keep track of updates to favored
March 14, 2013
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67% of Korean mobile subscribers use smartphones
A total of 67 percent of South Korean mobile subscribers used smartphones, surpassing usage rates in other major economies, data showed Wednesday.In a survey of 10 countries, South Korea had the highest rate of smartphone usage, surpassing China’s 66 percent and Australia’s 65 percent, according to the data from U.S. market researcher Nielsen.The figure was higher than 62 percent in Italy, 61 percent in Britain and 53 percent in the United States.South Korea also had one of the highest subscript
March 13, 2013
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Samsung SDI tops lithium-ion battery market for 3rd year
Samsung SDI Co. topped the global market for lithium-ion batteries for the third straight year in 2012, helped by growing demand for mobile devices, data showed Tuesday.The company shipped 1.07 billion cells last year, claiming 26 percent of the global lithium-ion battery market, according to the data by Japanese market researcher B3.One cell is generally used for batteries for smartphones or tablet PCs, while a larger number of cells are used for bigger batteries such as those for electric cars
March 13, 2013
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SKC sells stake in Chinese PET plant to Toyobo
SKC Inc., a South Korean industrial film maker, said Wednesday that it has decided to sell a stake in its Chinese polyester film plant to a Japanese maker of plastic film, as part of efforts to strengthen business cooperation.Toyobo Co. of Japan will hold a 15-percent stake in SKC High Tech Plastics Co. in China, becoming the third-largest shareholder after SKC and SKC China, the company said.SKC did not reveal the value of the deal.The PET film plant, located in the Chinese city of Nantong, Jia
March 13, 2013
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Google seen passing Apple in tablets for first time in 2013
Google Inc.’s software will power more tablets than Apple Inc.’s operating system for the first time this year as smaller, cheaper alternatives to the iPad gain favor with consumers, according to IDC.Devices running Google’s Android software will climb to 49 percent of the market in 2013, while Apple’s share will slip to 46 percent, IDC said in a statement Wednesday. Last year, Apple commanded 51 percent, compared with Google’s 46 percent.Machines introduced since the iPad’s debut in 2010 ― incl
March 13, 2013
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Latest in Galaxy lineup promises more pressure on Apple’s iPhone
Samsung Electronics Co. is making its biggest run yet at the iPhone’s U.S. loyalists, unveiling the new Galaxy S4 a few blocks from Apple Inc.’s flagship store in New York and broadcasting the event live in Times Square.The debut of Samsung’s marquee smartphone, which will be held at Radio City Music Hall tomorrow, lets Samsung bring the fight directly to Apple’s strongest market. The South Korean company is relying on an advertising blitz and cutting-edge features, potentially including a snazz
March 13, 2013
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Two blockbuster games hit Korea
Two blockbuster online games are rushing in with Blizzard Entertainment’s “Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm” and Nexon’s “Korean Baseball 2K.”“Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm” is an expansion pack to the military science fiction real-time strategy game “Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty,” which is now available for purchase in Korea, the U.S., Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and other regions.Blizzard held a launching event in Seoul on Monday to announce the release of the new blockbuster
March 13, 2013
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Will Samsung-Google alliance last?
Samsung Electronics and Google Inc. have thrived through their smartphone alliance, fighting their common rival Apple Inc. in the fiercely competitive global IT industry.Since the introduction of its Galaxy S smartphone series, Samsung has grown to become the world’s biggest handset maker, and the majority of the Korean smartphones shipped worldwide are equipped with Google’s Android mobile operating platform.“Samsung is one of our most important partners and we talk to them all the time,” said
March 13, 2013
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‘No Soup Day’ designated to cut salt intake
The Korea Food and Drug Administration declared every Wednesday of the third week of the month as “No Soup Day,” aiming to reduce the nation’s sodium intake. Koreans usually eat meals with soups including “jjigae,” or Korean-style stew, which contains large amounts of salt. The KFDA hopes that the designation of No Soup Day would encourage people to eat less salt.According to a national nutritional survey in 2011, Koreans consume the most salt -- approximately 30 percent of total intake -- from
March 13, 2013
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Study notes sex role reversal in species
European scientists say they know why for some animal species it's fathers rather than mothers that take care of their young -- and it's all down to numbers.The role reversal in species such as sea horses and some others has evolved because of an imbalance in the numbers of males relative to females, the said.In 1871, Charles Darwin observed that in most animals, it is the females that spend most time looking after the young while males focus on competing with each other for females.However, in
March 13, 2013
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NASA: Mars could have supported life
NASA says the Mars Curiosity rover's analysis of a rock sample confirms the Red Planet could have supported living microbes in its ancient past.The analysis identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon -- some of the key chemical ingredients for life -- in the sample Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater, NASA announced at a news conference Tuesday."A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported
March 13, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Galaxy S4: Will it justify the hype?
March 14 will be a big day for both Samsung and fans of the Galaxy lineup, as the Galaxy S4 is set for its first public appearance in New York City.The latest model will be unveiled less than a year after the previous S3 was launched. But the hype has built up so much since it was first rumored that Samsung would be releasing another model ― almost immediately after the S3 came out ― that, for some, the S4 may already seem old. Nevertheless, for those of us still scratching our heads about the s
March 12, 2013
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KAIST team develops advanced wireless chip
A team of scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed a wireless chip that can transmit data nearly 50 times faster than Bluetooth wireless standards and comparable Wi-Fi speeds.Professor Park Chul-soon and his research team said they developed a new type of radio frequency chip that uses 60-gigahertz bandwidth, different from licensed 2.5GHz or 5.2GHz, to wirelessly transmit 10.7 gigabytes of uncompressed data per second.Downloading a 5-GB two-hour movie
March 12, 2013