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The immigration area for foreigners at Incheon International Airport is almost vacant Wednesday. More than 170,000 people canceled reservations for airplane tickets with Korean Air and Asiana Airlines over the past twoweeks due to fears of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. / Yonhap

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Man arrested for terrorizing neighborhood with slingshot

A man was arrested last Wednesday for allegedly breaking eight windows with a slingshot in Seoul. Yongsan Police Station seized five slingshots, 81 rubber bands and some 3,600 ball bearings from his car and office. / YonhapBy Lee Min-hyungA man was arrested for allegedly breaking eight windows with a slingshot in Seoul, causing 9 million won ($8,000) in damage.The man, 47, surnamed Jung, is suspected of shooting ball bearings at an apartment building in Yongsan, central Seoul, a Yongsan Police Station spokesman said.No injuries were reported.Police said surveillance camera footage showed Jung near the building on May 25 with a black plastic bag containing bottles of makgeolli, a traditional rice wine.They said Jung admitted hanging a bottle in a tree and using it as a target for shooting practice, but denied aiming his slingshot at the apartment building, claiming some shots might had gone astray.“Given the angle of the shooting, it is unlikely that the ball bearings missed the bottle and hit the building,” the Yonhap News Agency quoted a police official as saying.Th

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Robot competition winner

Hubo, the Korea-made humanoid robot that won the DARPA Robotics Challenge, gets out of a car during a demonstration at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) campus in Daejeon, Tuesday. The robot, developed by a KAIST team, took first place  at the contest held in Fairplex, California, on June 6. / Yonhap

NZ wine festiva

New Zealand Ambassador Clare Fearnley, back row center, poses with board members and advisors of the Kiwi Chamber at the third annual New Zealand Wine Festival at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Busan, Saturday. The participants in the back row include Ross Cooper, third from right, general manager of Park Hyatt Busan; Simon Walsh, second from right, chairman of the Kiwi Chamber; John Riley, far right, deputy head of mission at the New Zealand Embassy in Seoul; and Ryan Freer, second from left, trade commissioner of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. The festival featured more than 75 wines from the country, attracting approximately 330 people. / Courtesy of EDGE Communications

Apartment security cannot catch break with fried chickens

/ Courtesy of Daum blogApartment securities had a physical scuffle with a drunkard who got angry at them for having fried chickens.According to a local blogger quoting a witness of the incident on Monday, the witness saw at around midnight in September of the last year one drunken man who appeared to be in his 40s engaged in a physical fight with one of the securities in his 60s.The witness said the man found the securities eating the chickens given by an owner of a fried chicken restaurant near the apartment. The man then approached them and said they don’t deserve to eat the chickens with their puny monthly payment. He then kicked the chickens and squashed them with his feet, saying he will have the securities sacked. One of the securities and the man then got into the fight. The security’s clothing was ripped during the fight.The security quit his job after the fight, the blogger added.

Corruption trial

Park Yong-sung, former chairman of the Chung-Ang University Foundation, walks out of the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul after a hearing, Monday. He has been indicted on charges of giving bribes to Park Bum-hoon, former senior presidential secretary for education, in return for special treatment for the school from 2011 to 2012. He has denied the allegations./ Yonhap

'I want to be Jack Ma of YouTube'

Mobile content startup Next Makers provides a YouTube "marketplace platform service" that helps both brands and creators./ Screen capture from Next Makers homepageNext Makers CEO links UCC to sponsorsBy Lee Min-hyungNext Makers CEO Joey LeeWith the advent of the Internet, traditional marketing tactics, such as television commercials featuring celebrities, became less effective as customers started turning to online reviews, says Joey Lee, the CEO of mobile content startup Next Makers.He believes in the power of YouTube as a trusted source for product reviews.“A teenage girl can have as much impact as a global celebrity on YouTube,” Lee, 32, said.“Brands are realizing the importance of YouTube content creators, as they create positive word-of-mouth on the Web. Meanwhile, such creators also want to make money with their videos. Next Makers provides a YouTube ‘marketplace platform service’ that helps both brands and creators.”Creators who sign up on the Next Makers website can make their contents available for purchase to advertisers, Lee said.After l