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South Korea joined today the “space nations” group, when it launched its first rocket to orbit, carrying a scientific payload. The successful take-off took place from the Naro Space Center, a facility operated by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, located some 485 kilometers (300 miles) South of the ... |
25 August 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Websites belonging to numerous U.S. and South Korean government agencies, as well as some other large commercial ones, have been under attack for the past several days by computers infected with a new piece of malware. The widespread DDoS assault resulted in slow responses from the targeted websites and even downtime... |
8 July 2009
07:14 GMT |
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South Korean scientists are currently in the process of developing a revolutionary new technique of recharging electric vehicles, without having to construct a large number of recharging stations along existing highways. Basically, they are trying to construct the recharging mechanisms directly into the streets, whic... |
19 May 2009
05:45 GMT |
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A fisheries official in South Korea announced on Thursday that the country was considering resuming its commercial fishing practices, if the International Whaling Commission allowed Japan to continue its cull of minke whales in its territorial waters. The situation, which will be discussed in June at the next IWC mee... |
23 April 2009
10:32 GMT |
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One of the most interesting pieces of news we were able to recently spot over the Web is that the largest mobile phone operator in South Korea, SK Telecom, might intend to soon enter the phone manufacturing business, at least this is what some sources from the country are reported to have said lately. SK Telecom is... |
26 March 2009
07:24 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Web, mobile phone users in South Korea might see Android-powered handsets available for them to purchase this year. The carrier that is expected to bring said devices to its lineup is KTF, the second largest mobile carrier in the country. The operator is reported to be in talks w... |
26 March 2009
06:40 GMT |
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Being able to use Instant Messaging on your mobile phone is a rather great thing, and users who live in either US or Europe know this as they are able to use the feature anytime they'd like to talk with any of their friends. The service allows them to send messages to any mobile number, no matter the network tha... |
25 March 2009
11:28 GMT |
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Video game development involves big amounts of money being invested in the successful creation of one title, but also in the undefeated players of those games, who have become the best at their respective titles, managing to beat all the other contenders. Professional gaming has caught on quite fast, but while it is... |
16 March 2009
03:26 GMT |
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A lot of countries have developed over the years a certain history in terms of gaming. Such a thing is very true with South Korea, whose people are avid online gamers, aiming at each and every possible MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) out there, that is, unless they are playing StarCraft. But ... |
10 February 2009
02:47 GMT |
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In the last few days, all news regarding Samsung's new releases covered slightly different, but, most importantly, cheaper devices than before. The SCH-W690 makes no exception, being a mid-end phone, well-built, of course, since we're talking about Samsung, but packed with less top of the line technologies.... |
18 December 2008
09:21 GMT |
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The Saemangeum dam, on the coast of the Yellow Sea in South Korea, is a 33 kilometer (20.5 miles) long sea wall that, since 2006, keeps ocean waters from entering a newly-recovered, 400 square km area of land, in the province of Jeollabuk-do. Several previous administrations supported the project, which has received ... |
24 November 2008
08:07 GMT |
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Codemasters, the publisher that is taking care of the daily operations of RF Online, said that it plans to close the MMO on November 10. The move is pinned on disagreements with the original developer of the game, the South Korea based CCR.Codemasters has removed the ability of players to purchase in-game Novus credi... |
6 October 2008
05:54 GMT |
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As it turns out, the South Korean company has a strong market share in its own country, since shortly after releasing the IM-S350, yet another phone was launched as part of the fall collection. Today, Pantech has introduced another Sky phone, the stylish slider IM-S380K. The handset is designed to work only with Kore... |
25 September 2008
10:32 GMT |
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The South Korean army claims that its military secrets are continuously being threatened by North Korean espionage attacks. The most recent attack covered by South Korean newspapers seems to have taken place from behind the computer desk. The English version of the Chosun news website claims that its journalists hav... |
2 September 2008
09:54 GMT |
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Samsung has recently unveiled two new handsets in its home country (South Korea): SCH-W460 and SPH-W3300. Neither of the new phones brings too advanced features; thus, they are targeted for users who are happy only with low to mid end devices. The first handset, Samsung SCH-W460 (or simply Samsung W460) is a clamshe... |
8 August 2008
09:04 GMT |
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Motorola has officially announced today the release of a new handset from its popular PEBL series, which debuted back in 2005 with the PEBL U6 model. The new PEBL was announced in South Korea, and it doesn't seem to come under any other name than simply "Motorola PEBL". Or, at least that's what I can tell f... |
24 July 2008
12:44 GMT |
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Pantech, the third largest South Korean handset manufacturer (Samsung and LG are the first two), has recently announced the upcoming release of a new mobile phone named Pantech C600. The C600 is a clamshell that doesn't bring too many advanced features but it can still be considered a nice phone. The handset... |
23 July 2008
08:23 GMT |
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Audience, the American company based in Mountain View, California, and specialized in advanced noise suppression, has recently announced its debut on the South Korean market by embedding its technology in the new LG SH400 mobile phone. Released by SK Telecom (SKT), the largest operator in South Korea, the new LG hand... |
14 July 2008
06:29 GMT |
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SK Telecom, the largest mobile operator from South Korea, will soon release the Samsung SCH-M480 smartphone. The handset will be available in the second half of July, for a retail price of 600,000 KRW ($600 or 384 Euros). The SCH-M480 is, most probably, the CDMA version of Samsung i780, already available in Europe.... |
10 July 2008
10:08 GMT |
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Motorola Z8m, the more advanced South Korean edition of the RIZR Z8 slider, has now new color versions: white and all-black, added to the black/silver one already available. The white version, which has only its margins covered in the pure color, makes the phone look quite distinct. Released in South Korea at the e... |
9 July 2008
08:57 GMT |
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Except for Japan, which enjoys massive attention from the three biggest console manufacturers in the world, the other Asian countries were kind of ignored in the past. Today, it seems that both Sony and Nintendo are planning to invest in other Asian markets as well and expand their business plan in Taiwan and South K... |
7 July 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Eyedentity Games is announcing that it is developing Dragon Nest, a new MMO which aims to attract both Western and Eastern audiences with a fantasy story and interesting twists. The new company is staffed with veteran game designers that have previous experience designing MMOs for the likes of NCsoft, Gravity, Phatag... |
3 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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LG Telecom, the South Korean mobile carrier controlled by LG Group, has recently unveiled a new Samsung smartphone, announced to be launched soon for its Korean subscribers. The handset we're talking about is Samsung SPH-M4655 and it was presented in the same press release that announces the availability of LG S... |
3 July 2008
10:00 GMT |
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HTC has announced the upcoming availability of its Touch Dual Pocket PC in South Korea, via SK Telecom, the largest mobile carrier in the country. HTC Touch Dual will be commercially available for South Korean users starting mid-July. The retail price of the Pocket PC is expected to be around 600,000 won, meaning abo... |
1 July 2008
05:27 GMT |
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Ezio Mega4 is a brand new mobile phone that comes from South Korea but it's not made by any of the Samsung, LG or Pantech giants. The Mega4 is manufactured by Ezze Mobile Tech, a company that we've heard of before, on the occasion of FCC's approval for its SLT100 handset. Now the FCC brings Ezze... |
30 June 2008
09:30 GMT |
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LG Secret, the latest high-end touchscreen handset released by LG, is now available in the manufacturer's home country, South Korea. Released in Europe as LG KF750 and in South America as LG KF755, the Secret has now finally become available in South Korea, under the names of LG SU600, KU6000 or LU6000. LG Secre... |
30 June 2008
05:48 GMT |
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The touchscreen craze hasn't taken over only Europe and the US, but also South Korea, where Pantech (the third largest Korean handset manufacturer, after Samsung and LG) has released today a new touchscreen phone, named SKY IM-R300. This new Pantech handset is a slider that comes with an elegant design, looki... |
24 June 2008
07:40 GMT |
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Pantech has recently released a new mobile phone that seems to be targeting little girls. Launched under the SKY name (Pantech's brand for South Korea), the new handset is available via SK Telecom, the largest Korean mobile operator. Called SKY IM-U300K, the phone is a clamshell that comes with a set of externa... |
19 June 2008
09:15 GMT |
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It seems rumors of the demise of Hellgate London were not that exaggerated. After the MMO launched to disappointing reviews and lackluster sales, many analysts predicted that, because developers Flagship were losing money on the project, the game would only receive minimal support compared to other titles in their li... |
12 June 2008
03:22 GMT |
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LG L750ie is the name of the latest-announced mobile phone produced by LG and it's a device created to be simple and user-friendly, probably targeting consumers that are no longer young (like the LG Wine, unveiled at the end of April). For the moment we don't know all the features that LG L750ie will come w... |
2 June 2008
09:48 GMT |
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Samsung continues to roll-out one mobile phone after another and one of the latest handsets to come from the South Korean company is the SPH-W4950, or simply W4950. Coming in a slider form factor, Samsung W4950 looks nice and it also seems to be quite slim. Its features include CDMA2000 connectivity with EV-DO Re... |
30 May 2008
03:03 GMT |
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Motorola VU20 is the latest Moto phone approved by the FCC and it seems that soon it will be released in South Korea, via SK Telecom, the largest mobile operator in the country. Engadget Mobile discovered the handset at the FCC and if they're not giving away too many details about it, we are. Although the FCC w... |
28 May 2008
04:18 GMT |
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Motorola unveiled these days a new edition of its RAZR2 popular clamshell, all dressed in silver/pink metallic shades. The phone was released in South Korea, via SK Telecom, the largest mobile operator in the country (more than 22 million customers). With the new look, the RAZR2 looks quite nice (for a girl/woman) a... |
16 May 2008
03:16 GMT |
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Samsung Haptic, the high-end touchscreen handset unveiled by the South Korean company at the end of March (this year, of course), is now available in a new and fashionable pink color and it will also be released in a white version. These new colors are added to the original black edition, offering users more options ... |
14 May 2008
06:12 GMT |
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Microsoft will be responsible for building an ubiquitous computing environment in the "City of the Future." The Redmond company announced that its technology would be at the heart of Songdo, a new South Korean city being built 40 miles southwest of Seoul. Microsoft Solutions will cover various technological aspects ... |
9 May 2008
12:19 GMT |
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Sky, brand name of the Korean-based Pantech Curitel, recently unveiled its latest mobile phone, called Sky Duke. The new handset has an elegant look and is made of "glossy materials", meaning some sort of luxurious metal. Sky Duke comes in a slider form factor and has an ergonomic design, with an easy to use keypad... |
18 April 2008
06:53 GMT |
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Expedition 16 was the first ever to have a female as the commander of the International Space Station. The team comprises astronaut Peggy Whitson, space station commander, flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko and second flight engineers Clayton Anderson, Daniel Tani, Leopold Eyharts and Garret Reisman. In fact, the Exped... |
18 April 2008
04:48 GMT |
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Ezze SLT100 is a new mobile phone that has been recently approved by FCC and it could soon be available in the US market. Produced by Ezze Mobile Tech, a South Korean company, SLT100 is a mid-end handset that looks pretty nice and could be quite successful if launched by a major American carrier and priced wisely. ... |
11 April 2008
12:51 GMT |
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Yesterday, the Russian engineers from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan rolled out the Soyuz rocket, which is supposed to carry two Russian cosmonauts and the first South Korean astronaut to the International Space Station. The 50-meter Soyuz spacecraft will take off from the same launch pad used to send a man in... |
7 April 2008
05:34 GMT |
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Lineage II is set to get a new and extremely well endowed Collector's Edition especially for the European market. NCsoft was quick to present details and also set a date for the release of the special offering. So, on April 25 prepare to experience the best that Lineage has to offer for around 80 Euro (which see... |
4 April 2008
06:15 GMT |
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The Unreal 3 engine is quickly becoming the preferred base on which to build a number of games, from the traditional First-Person Shooters to third-person shooter, MMOs and even social communities. The main reason is that the engine provides great visuals while also balancing system requirements for the games based o... |
28 March 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Earlier in the day we talked about the rise of the Chinese MMO market and about how the value of business conducted in that market was going to reach 3 billion dollars by 2010. Now we're going to talk about how MMOs developed on Eastern principles have a shot at getting a market share on the Western MMO market.C... |
20 March 2008
09:42 GMT |
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Wednesday was the day that the Internet users in South Korea saw Google tend to their needs and launch a localized version of the largest video sharing service website in the world. This is the 19th country that YouTube has descended from the bytes realm to.User-created content is the thing YT is after in order to gr... |
23 January 2008
18:16 GMT |
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Linux has the power to unite foes. This statement is true because two bitter political enemies - North and South Korea - will team up with China in the project "Hana Linux".Hana Linux is a distribution, which was announced at the ICMIP 2007 event in Yenji, China, last week. The Linux event that will take place in Pyo... |
5 December 2007
06:05 GMT |
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Microsoft has long been a landmark of monopoly worldwide. But this detail is about to change as the Redmond company has evolved, following the various antitrust rulings against it both at home and abroad. In this context, Microsoft has suffered antitrust scrutinies not only in the U.S. but also in the European Union ... |
16 October 2007
10:18 GMT |
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Having two mobile phones is nothing out of the ordinary, but what about 4? A recent government report cited by The Korea Times showed that almost 50,000 people in South Korea have at least 4 mobile phones that they currently use.That's one phone for business, one for the family, one for the girlfriend, the fourt... |
3 October 2007
11:13 GMT |
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Not everyone likes military service, especially if it's compulsory. Sure, some people will join the army willingly, but others will firmly reject it, because they despise violence, or a drill sergeant always yelling at them or for whatever other reason you may think of. Draft-dodging is as old as the army. Thing... |
1 October 2007
04:45 GMT |
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After a summer filled with various monopole accusations in both the United States and Europe, the largest central processing units in the world are now in the crosshair of the antitrust regulator officials from South Korea. The Korean Fair Trade Commission, which is responsible for enforcing antitrust policies in Sou... |
11 September 2007
06:11 GMT |
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European operators have taken a large amount of everyone's attention over the iPhone's future support for a release on the market. They are infirming rumors and keeping silent on the entire matter, although one carrier had the courage to confirm it's currently negotiating with Apple for an iPhone relea... |
24 August 2007
10:16 GMT |
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The Mountain View company Google is quietly planning a new version of YouTube in a move meant to increase the company's presence in the Asian market. It seems like Google will release YouTube South Korea soon but the company's officials refused to give more details about the upcoming flavor of the online vi... |
22 June 2007
05:53 GMT |
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