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[Yonhap News Photo ] SEOUL/NEW DELHI -- The bodies of five South Korean climbers and four local guides have all been recovered, a day after they were found dead on a Himalayan mountain in Nepal, local embassy officials said. "At around 10:30 a.m. (local time), three out of the nine bodies were retrieved and transported to a nearby village," a South Korean embassy official said. "The recovery work was completed at around 11:30 a.m. after the six remaining bodies were
[Yonhap News Photo] SEOUL -- A picture taken by a mountain climber showed a Brocken specter which is the magnified shadow of an observer cast upon clouds opposite of the Sun's direction. The specter appears when the sun shines from behind the observer, who is looking down from a ridge or peak into mist or fog. The picture was taken on the 1,915 meter-high peak of Jirisan, South Korea's second tallest mountain. The climber's head was surrounded by the halo-like rings of
[Yonhap Photo] SEOUL -- Amid an ongoing social debate over the harmfulness of heat-not-burn (HNB) products, the South Korean branch of tobacco giant Philip Morris International filed a lawsuit demanding the disclosure of full information used for a government probe. Industrial data showed HNB products have become popular in South Korea, attracting more than 10 percent of smokers last year. Some experts insisted the heated tobacco product is just as harmful as conventional ones. A p
[Yonhap News Photo] SEOUL -- A South Korean patient infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was completely cured ten days after he was kept at a state hospital ward for isolated treatment, health officials said Tuesday. The health ministry said that the 61-year-old patient would be transferred to a general ward because two latest tests showed that he made a complete recovery. He was sent to an isolated ward at the hospital of Seoul National University on September
[Yonhap Photo] SEOUL -- KT, a leading telecom company in South Korea, established strategic cooperation with Ascend Care, a European healthcare company, to conduct a joint survey for their entry into Russia's digital healthcare market in 2019. KT said in a statement Tuesday that an agreement on stratic cooperation was signed with Ascend Care on the sidelines of a business forum in Russia's far eastern port city of Vladivostok. "With this agreement, KT will accelerate i
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