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South Korea

Type: Country

Name: South Korea

population: 49,929,288

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 30 mins ago - 12 reports

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Samsung sells 10m S4 in less than a month

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics said yesterday its latest flagship Galaxy S4 has become its fastest selling smartphone, topping 10 million units globally less than a month after debut.A statement said the S4 passed the 10-million sales mark following its April ... [Published Business Times Malaysia - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, Apple Inc, Apple Siri

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 35 mins ago - 17 reports

N. Korea wants talks with 'concerned parties': envoy

BEIJING, May 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's special envoy met with another top Chinese party official Thursday, the second day of his scheduled three-day trip here seen as aimed at mending frayed ties between the two countries.Vice Marshall ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - 35 mins ago]

Entities: North Korea, China, Park Geun-Hye, Beijing, South Korea

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 3 reports

Barack Obama

The Consequences Of Gun-At-The-Head Diplomacy ? OpEd

“The US kill rate in the 1950-53 Korean War equaled more than one 9-11 every day… for the whole 1,100 day war…The US may have killed 20% of the population of Korea, said General Curtis Lemay, who was involved in the US air war on Korea. If so, that is ... [Published Eurasia Review - 1 hour ago]

Entities: North Korea, Nuclear, Barack Obama

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 7 reports

Girl, 5, killed by suicide jumper in South Korea

A five-year-old South Korean girl died Wednesday night after a suicidal man jumped from the 11th floor of an apartment building and crushed her, CNN reports. ... [Published Sudbury Star - 6 hours ago]

Entities: South Korea, Suicide

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 10 reports

Kim Dae-jung

Pyongyang proposes joint event with South Korea

Two businessmen shed tears when listening to an introduction to the history of Kaesong Industrial Complex on Thursday. Representatives of South Korean enterprises based in the complex held a meeting on Thursday, urging North and South Korea to allow businessmen ... [Published Global Times - 7 hours ago]

Entities: South Korea, Pyongyang, Mount Kumgang, Kim Dae-jung, Kaesong Industrial Complex

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 4 reports

Russia to Launch South Korean Satellite in August

TOKYO, May 23 (RIA Novosti) A Russian rocket will launch South Koreas latest multipurpose Arirang-5 satellite on August 22, Seoul's science ministry said on Thursday.The rocket will blast off from the Yasny launch center in the Orenburg Region in the ... [Published RIA Novosti - 11 hours ago]

Entities: South Korea, Russia, Orenburg, Tokyo

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 13 hours ago - 7 reports

Park Geun-Hye

Pres. Park says no special offers until N. Korea shows signs of change

President Park Geun-hye (center) give a thumbs-up with pilots at a rollout event for the KUH-1 Surion utility helicopter at the Army Aviation School in Nonsan, South Chungcheong province, May 22. (Blue House photo pool)Foreign affairs officials preparing ... [Published Hani.co.kr - 16 hours ago]

Entities: North Korea, Nonsan (South Korea), Pyongyang, Japan, Park Geun-Hye

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 6 reports

UPDATE 5: Japan's Nikkei dives 7.3% in spectacular U-turn

Today 5:42 AM ET (MarketWatch)HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japanese shares suffered their worst losses in more than two years on Thursday after data showing an unexpected contraction in Chinese manufacturing activity added to worries the Federal Reserve ... [Published TD Ameritrade - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Nikkei Index, yield, Volatility

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 6 reports

Leading Economic Institute Slashes 2013 Economic Growth to 2.6%

A state-run economic think tank has revised down its growth forecast for South Korea to two-point-six percent.The Korea Development Institute (KDI) said Thursday that Korea’s real gross domestic production will grow two-point-six percent this year, down ... [Published Korea Broadcasting System - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Economic Growth, Korea Development Institute, Bank of Korea, Trade Surplus

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 23 hours ago - 11 reports

Seoul shares slip amid Fed worries, defensives shine

Seoul shares pulled back from7-week highs on Thursday after Wall Street declined on concernsthe U.S. Federal Reserve may start to roll back its stimulusprogramme in the coming months.Falls were led by heavy-weight technology and auto exporters like Samsung ... [Published Reuters - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Seoul, Stocks, Roll Back, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 5 reports

Iran crude exports to S. Korea down 44.4% in April

South Koreas oil import from Iran have dropped 44.4% year-on-year in April to 4.18 million barrels, Reuters has reported. The country's crude imports from Iran last month rose 4% compared with that of March, data from the state-run Korea National Oil ... [Published AME Info - May 23 2013]

Entities: Iran, South Korea, Korea National Oil Corporation

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 13 reports

North Korea: How the least-wired country became a hacking superpower

North Korea’s cyber-war strength says a lot about the future of global hostilities.SEOUL, South Korea — This year, North Korea has been flaunting its nuclear hardware in an effort to extort concessions from the United States and South Korea.But the tactic ... [Published GlobalPost - May 22 2013]

Entities: North Korea, South Korea, Cyber Warfare, Computer Hacking

Quotes

The minutes said, "A number of participants expressed willingness to adjust the flow of purchases downward as early as the June meeting if the economic information received by that time showed evidence of sufficiently strong and sustained growth." [New York Times]

What caused Japan's stock market to tumble? Three theories [Published The Week Magazine - 16 mins ago]

"In other words, this treaty establishes the ground rules for investors from both sides, which provide protection, stability, predictability, and mutual security in the treatment of investments, with the aim of creating incentives for attracting foreign investment" explained the Minister

MINISTRY OF COMMERCE, INDUSTRY AND TOURISM OF THE: Colombia and Singapore conclude bit Negotiations [Published 4 Traders - 21 mins ago]

"The reactor thermal power upgrade was carried out for Ulchin 1 and 2 in September 2002."

Ulchin Nuclear Power Plant, South Korea [Published Power Technology - 23 mins ago]

Ms Gillard said the government’s immediate priority would be to support workers affected by the closures. "The economy has many sources of strength, but the high Australian dollar is putting a lot of pressure on some industries, particularly manufacturing" she said

Ford to pull out of Australia in 2016 [Published The Scotsman - 28 mins ago]

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Blogs

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Cockroaches quickly evolving to avoid bait used... [Published Raw Story - 1 hour ago] Topics: Coby Schal ♦ German cockroachesLike Raw Story on FacebookCockroaches will eat anything. Except sugar, that is.Some of the common pests have evolved to learn how to detect and avoid a certain kind of glucose often used in bait traps, according ...
Google said to face new U.S. antitrust probe ov... [Published Financial Post \| Business » FP Tech Desk - 2 hours ago] Google Inc. is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said. The fresh ...
IMDEX Show Draws Navy Chiefs, 194 Firms – Defen... [Published MaritimeSecurity.Asia - 3 hours ago] SINGAPORE — Despite the uncertain economic climate, the biennial International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (IMDEX) was fully booked last week. Jimmy Lau, managing director of Experia Events, said the ninth IMDEX saw 194 companies from ...
Eye on Iran: US House Panel Backs Stiff New Ira... [Published Solsticewitch13's BOS - 5 hours ago] br />!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--> For continuing coverage follow us on Twitter andjoin our Facebook group. Top Stories AFP: "Iran could face tightened sanctions within months after a UScongressional panel Wednesday adopted a ...
Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-Firs... [Published Boing Boing - 6 hours ago] I was blown away by Drew Magary's 2011 science fiction novel, The Postmortal . It's about what happens to civilization when a cure for aging is discovered. So I was eager to read his new non-fiction book, Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century ...

Audio/Video

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VIDEO: New cruise route to North Korea [Published BBC News Video - World - 15 hours ago]
The Stream - South Korea's multiculturalism [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - May 22 2013]
Seoul’s Unusual Announcement of Missile Launches [Published WSJ.com Video - News - May 20 2013]
North Korea launches short-range missiles into ... [Published CBS News Online - YouTube - May 18 2013]
Memories of fighting for North Korea [Published CNN.com - Video - May 17 2013]

Press Releases

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