In terms of campaigning, the race for Seoul mayor was characterized by how relatively unflashy it was, focusing instead on volunteering and directly communicating with citizens.The most conspicuous change from past races was the relative lack of loudspeakers, which were typical of street campaigning in the past.The two candidates decided they should listen more and speak less to win the public’s heart, especially considering the public’s general discontent with politics and the ongoing economic

Samsung Electronics donated the first solar-powered internet school for use in South Africa on Tuesday.The equipment was handed over to the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Boksburg, located in the northeastern region of the country. The solar-powered Internet school is a mobile classroom created from a shipping container. The classroom can hold up to 21 students at a time, and is features include a 50-inch electronic blackboard, solar-powered laptop computers with wireless internet connection and

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Amazon’s spending on expansion will eventually help its bottom line, but right now it’s costing the online retailer on Wall Street.The Seattle-based company’s third-quarter net income fell 73 percent despite revenue growth as Amazon built sales fulfillment centers at a rapid clip. Neither that drop nor its revenue outlook for the current quarter made investors happy.Its stock fell more than 12 percent after hours.Amazon.com Inc. earned $63 million, or 14 cents per share, for

DETROIT (AP) ― Quality should be Job 1 at Ford again.The brand’s ranking fell 10 spots in Consumer Reports’ annual auto reliability survey, hurt by glitchy touch screens and transmissions. It now ranks 20th out of 28 major brands, based on a survey of the magazine’s subscribers.The Dearborn, Michigan, automaker had been closing the quality gap with Japanese brands in recent years, but it may need to take its own advice from a 1980s ad campaign, in which it told viewers that “Quality is Job 1.”Ja

A charity dog costume contest will be held in Seoul on Oct. 30. The event to benefit Korean animal charities will run from 1-6 p.m. at Roofers bar in Itaewon. The event for Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth will see pooches decked-out in costumes take part in talent shows to win prizes. Owners are invited to dress up too at the Halloween-themed event. Entry to the contest is a suggested donation of 5,000 won to go towards CARE’s work to protect animals in Korea.  The charity aims to prevent

Two fund-raisers to support cancer sufferers have made almost 4.5 million won in one day. First, a Cancer Sucks event at White Box Theatre in Seoul on Saturday afternoon raised almost 2 million won for the Korean Cancer Society.Participants paid 10,000 won each to dress up and dance to record a music video. “Overall, it was a fabulous event,” said organizer Mitzi Kaufman. “A huge thank you is due to all the donors, volunteers, and participants.”Kim Seon-mi of the Korean Cancer society said: “The

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) ― The last of the nation’s biggest nuclear bombs, a Cold War relic 600 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was dismantled Tuesday in what one energy official called a milestone in President Barack Obama’s mission to rid the world of nuclear weapons.Workers in Texas separated the roughly 136 kilograms of high explosives inside from the special nuclear material ― uranium ― known as the pit.The work was done outside of public view for security reasons

HONOLULU (AP) ― Up to 20 million tons of tsunami debris floating from Japan could arrive on Hawaii’s shores by early 2013, before reaching the West Coast, according to estimates by University of Hawaii scientists.A Russian training ship spotted the junk ― including a refrigerator, a television set and other appliances ― in an area of the Pacific Ocean where the scientists from the university’s International Pacific Research Center predicted it would be.The biggest proof that the debris is from t