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March 03, 2021 11:02 Five Koreans will play in Major League Baseball in the upcoming season as infielder Kim Ha-seong and pitcher Yang Hyeon-jong have newly joined the San Diego Padres and the Texas Rangers. The other three are Ryu Hyun-jin of the Toronto Blue Jays, Kim Kwang-hyun of the St. Louis Cardinals and Choi Ji-man of the Tampa Bay Rays. Choo Shin-soo, who played for the Rangers, left the club to play in Korea. They are now taking part in spring training, for which exhibition games started on Sunday. Kim Ha-seong went 1-for-4 in his first two exhibition games for the Padres in Arizo...

March 03, 2021 13:56 China is racing ahead of Korea in research and development at an alarming pace. The number of Korean businesses in the world's top 2,500 companies in terms of R&D fell from 80 in 2014 to 59 in 2019, while that of Chinese businesses soared from 301 to 536. The Federation of Korean Industries based the figures on analysis of a report by the EU Executive Committee. They suggest that Korea's proportion in global R&D expenditure fell from 3.9 percent to 3.6 percent over the period while China's jumped from 5.9 percent to 13.1 percent. China has poured massive amounts of gov...

March 03, 2021 13:18 The coronavirus epidemic has prompted growing numbers of people to move into hotels because rooms are now so cheap that they make long stays easily affordable. The sharp drop in foreign visitors has forced hotels in the downtown shopping district of Myeong-dong, trendy Hongik University area and affluent Gangnam to advertise long-stay packages. And a growing number of people in their 20s and 30s who are bored at home in lockdown have snapped them up, both for the service and a change of scene. One 31-year-old office worker moved into a three-star hotel in central Seoul...

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