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Kwangdong unveils low-calorie drinks

Kwangdong Pharmaceutical has started marketing two low-calorie soft drinks called HP and MP. HP stands for Healing Point and MP is Mind Point. Courtesy of Kwangdong PharmaceuticalKwangdong Pharmaceutical has unveiled low-calorie soft drinks as part of a campaign to reduce sugar consumption, a company spokesman said Friday.The two new bottled products are called HP and MP. HP represents Healing Point and MP is Mind Point, the spokesman said.A 400-milliliter bottle of HP and MP contains only 120 kilocalories each, 30 percent lower than the average calories of existing carbonated drinks sold in Korea, according to the company.“We target young consumers, particularly in their teens and 20s. Also we’ll make efforts to supply more healthy soft drinks to them,” the spokesman said.HP contains grape and aronia juice as well as 100 milligrams of taurine, an amino acid which supports neurological development and helps regulate the level of water and minerals in the blood.MP is a sparkling drink with apple juice. It contains 100 milligrams of theanine, an amino acid found in te

Apr 23, 2017

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(353) Saju readings for presidential candidates

Moon Jae-inAhn Cheol-sooBy Janet ShinThe 19th presidential election for South Korea is scheduled to be held on May 9. In the early race, Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Party of Korea led the competition until Ahn Cheol-soo of the People’s Party began catching up with the longstanding frontrunner.Predicting who will be the winner of the election is a conventional affair for many fortune tellers. This time, there are some intriguing facts associated with most of the contenders’ saju. For the saju masters, forecasting the results of the election must be rational on top of its foreknowable aspect, because it is often tarnished by the personal political views of the fortune teller.Looking back on some of the previous elections, not only those of Korea but of other countries, such as the U.S. election, the results of the poll have been so close and quite a few fortune tellers made wrong predictions. In past Korean presidential elections, one of my acquaintances strongly insisted that Moon of the then Democratic United Party would win, which turned out to be miscalculated and it

Apr 20, 2017