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[AtoZ into Korean mind] Humor in Korea: Navigating the line between what's funny and not
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Yoon seeks rebound, taps 5-term lawmaker as chief of staff
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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Medical standoff deepens as doctors reject new med school plan, talks
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[Herald Interview] Why Toss invited hackers to penetrate its system
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[Graphic News] 77% of young Koreans still financially dependent
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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S. Korean envoys convene to navigate strategy amid Middle East tensions
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North Korea fires several short-range ballistic missiles into sea: JCS
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Samsung, SK hynix investors dump shares on Nvidia crash
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85 local governments designate smoke-free zones
Watch out smokers: 85 local district offices have banned smoking on boulevards and at other public spots. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, 10 metropolitan or provincial governments and 75 district offices have designated communal parks, playgrounds, bus stops, beaches and boulevards as no-smoking zones as of Feb. 29. People who do not abide by the rules will be fined up to 100,000 won per case, the authorities said. The 10 metropolitan or provincial governments are Seoul, Busan,
March 15, 2012
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Samsung Hospital to open on Saturdays for checkups
Samsung Seoul Hospital said it will open on Saturdays for health checkups, allowing wider access for people who cannot spare time during weekdays. “Previously, people had to wait for about a couple of months in order to receive checkups after a reservation. But the Saturday openings will reduce the wait time dramatically,” the hospital said in a press release. “More companies are asking for checkups on their workers. They could surely use their Saturdays for checkups. It also allows people livin
March 15, 2012
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EWUH signs patient referral pact with Vietnam
Ewha Womans University Hospital has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Vietnamese Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday to ensure that the patients referred from the Vietnamese government receive ample treatment at the hospital. At the signing of the contract were Kim Kwang-ho, head of the hospital, and Tran Trong Toan, the Vietnamese ambassador to Korea. The pact is expected to facilitate human resources exchange between the medical facilities in Vietnam and at EWUH. “I was impressed that th
March 15, 2012
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U.S.: More work needed to stop smoking in young people
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ― More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products, the U.S. Surgeon General’s office said in a report released Thursday.Almost one in five high school-aged teens smokes, down from earlier decades, but the rate of decline has slowed, the report said.It says it’s particularly important to stop young people from using tobacco because those who start smoking as teenagers can increase th
March 15, 2012
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Gastritis
Mr. K is 40 years of age, and recently experienced a digestive disturbance and felt pain at the epigastrium, or upper central region of the abdomen, after overeating. He also sometimes presented with such symptoms as vomiting or heart burn. He therefore visited a local clinic. Through an interview with Mr. K, the physician recognized the symptoms and performed an abdominal examination. This was followed by a gastric X-ray, where it was found that Mr. K had no serious problems such as an ulcer or
March 15, 2012
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Making meat in your diet history
More Koreans turn vegetarian though skepticism remains about its health effectsThirty-two-year-old office worker Kim Jin-ee recently decided to become a vegan. She removed all meat, milk, fish and eggs from her fridge to start. It was not her first time trying out a vegetable-oriented diet. She tried a couple of years ago, but failed. “People around haven’t been too generous with vegetarians. The company dinners were all about meat or sashimi, and everywhere you go you would have more than one o
March 15, 2012
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Study: Dinosaurs' exit not mammals' cue
An Australian study challenges a theory that the disappearance of dinosaurs 65 million years ago is what allowed modern mammals to flourish, researchers say.Researchers at the University of New South Wales say their study suggests mammals had already begun to diversify long before the asteroid-linke
March 15, 2012
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Human-like fossils in China caves puzzle scientists
The most recent fossils ever found of a human-like species in southeast China have presented scientists with a mystery about what may be an unknown Stone Age culture, researchers said Wednesday.Sometimes called the "red deer people," the remains are about 11,500 to 14,500 years old and appear to sho
March 15, 2012
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New frog species discovered in New York City
Amazed biologists have uncovered a new species of frog in the jungle -- New York's concrete jungle. An illustration of a frog (MCT)The mottled green creature was for years mistaken as belonging to a widespread variety of the leopard frog. But now scientists realize this is new."For a new species to
March 15, 2012
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Samsung supplies Apple with screen for new iPad
Samsung Electronics Co. will supply the screen for Apple Inc.’s new iPad after LG Display Co. and Sharp Corp. didn’t meet the U.S. company’s quality requirements, according to an analyst with iSuppli. Samsung, the world’s top flat-panel maker, currently is the sole vendor of the display for the 9.7-inch, touch-screen device, said Vinita Jakhanwal, a senior manager at iSuppli, a unit of Englewood, Colorado-based IHS Inc. The new tablet goes on sale March 16. The supply deal deepens Apple’s partne
March 14, 2012
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NCsoft to see China sales surge: report
HONG KONG (Yonhap News) ― NCsoft Corp., a leading online game developer in South Korea, will likely see its sales in China rise sharply this year largely thanks to its new partnership with a Chinese distributor, Goldman Sachs said Wednesday.NCsoft currently distributes its flagship massively multiplayer online role-playing games ― Lineage I, Lineage II and Aion ― in China through a contract with Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd., a Shanghai-based operator of online games. The company has ter
March 14, 2012
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Samsung lead triples in Chinese market as iPhone fails to gain
Apple Inc. got a second partner in China to sell the iPhone in the world’s biggest mobile-phone market. The deal may be too late to catch Samsung Electronics Co., with a market share that’s three times larger and growing. China Telecom Corp. began selling the iPhone last week as Apple tries to build on its 7.5 percent share of the country’s smartphone sales. Samsung controlled 24.3 percent of the market for phones that can play videos and games, according to Gartner Inc., using a strategy of all
March 14, 2012
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Korea’s smart meters could cut electricity consumption
South Korea’s plan to install smart meters in half the country’s households by 2016 could cut electricity consumption equivalent to the cost of one nuclear power plant. “We want to make the utility industry intelligent and efficient,” said Choi Kyu-chong, director of the Smart Grid & Electricity Market Division of the Knowledge Economy Ministry. South Korea expects it will be able to save the cost of building a reactor by 2016 by helping households and utilities to manage electricity consumption
March 14, 2012
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‘Smart work’ system gains popularity in Korea
Recent survey shows eight out of every 10 are smart workersThe mass introduction of smart gadgets in the country has not only changed the lifestyles of many Koreans, but also impacted the way people do their jobs here.A recent consumer study conducted by U.S.-based firm VMware found that at least eight out of every 10 employed Koreans could be dubbed “smart workers,” indicating that they have somehow adopted a flexible working style ― mobile offices, virtual meetings and working in remote areas
March 14, 2012
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Scientists produce retina structure from blood-derived cells
U.S. scientists have succeeded in making early retina structures by using stem cells from blood, marking a breakthrough toward treating eye diseases, Science Daily reported Tuesday.The new findings can help study degenerative retinal disorder such as retinitis pigmentosa, a prominent cause of blindness in children and young adults, according to a statement by the University of Wisconsin- Madison research team.Last year, the group led by Doctor David Gamm was able to create the most primitive str
March 14, 2012
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Introduction to Pilates
CHICAGO ― With some fitness regimens, that first trip to the gym can nearly kill you.Pilates, with its emphasis on core training and an abundance of moves, works the other way.“The first time is almost the easiest,” says Alycea Ungaro, owner of Real Pilates in New York (realpilatesnyc.com and author of “Pilates: Body in Motion” (DK Publishing). “It gets harder after that. Once you know what to do, the bar gets higher, the demand gets harder. You see things you’re doing wrong and you fix them. Yo
March 14, 2012
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Rats as good at decision-making as humans: study
Rats are smart, that's a well known fact. But US researchers said Tuesday a series of tests have shown they may be just as good as humans at juggling information in order to make the best decision. A white rat in a laboratoryThe discovery could help scientists better understand how the brain works i
March 14, 2012
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Scientists claim nuke could stop asteroid Armageddon
A huge asteroid hurls toward Earth. In desperation, scientists send a group of astronauts to blast the deadly rock with a nuclear bomb and save humanity.It is a scenario that has been depicted in Hollywood films, but new a U.S. study suggests that a timely nuclear explosion could save us from a devastating asteroid impact.Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory conducted a supercomputer simulation to test the effects of a nuclear weapon on an asteriod, according to Space.com.They “hit” a 50
March 14, 2012
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South Korean researchers to clone mammoth
A private bioengineering laboratory led by disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk said Tuesday that it agreed to work together with a Russian university in cloning an extinct woolly mammoth.The agreement with the North-Eastern Federal University calls for the use of biological samples taken from mammoth remains so they can help make a live animal using a somatic cell nuclear transfer process, the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation said.It said the school in the Russia’s Sakha Federal Republi
March 13, 2012
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Over half of Koreans use e-learning system
South Korea’s market for online or electronic-learning (e-learning) systems rose sharply last year with more than half of the population aged over three saying they have used such educational aids, the government said Tuesday.Combined sales by the country’s service operators rose 9.2 percent from a year earlier to about 2.45 trillion won ($2.19 billion) in 2011, according to the Ministry of Knowledge Economy.The number of service providers also increased 6.9 percent on-year to 1,656 with the num
March 13, 2012