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Launch of combined division

U.S. and South Korean soldiers march with national flags during a ceremony to celebrate the creation of a combined division at Camp Red Cloud, the headquarters of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division, in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province, Wednesday./ Yonhap

Disinfection against MERS

A public health center worker disinfects the stands at Pohang Baseball Stadium in North Gyeongsang Province, Wednesday, in a bid to prevent the spread of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). / Yonhap

Joint research accord

Lee Young-moo, right, president of Hanyang University, poses with Harald Borgholte, vice president of the strategic marketing and product development division at BASF, the world’s largest chemical producer, aftersigning a licensing agreement to share thin film coating technology at the school’s campus in Seoul, Tuesday. Under the accord, Hanyang University and BASF will conduct joint research to develop thin film coating technology for flexible electronic devices. / Courtesy of Hanyang University

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GS Creative Center

GS Group Chairman Huh Chang-soo, left, sits on a biobutanol-powered tractor while explaining about the equipment to President Park Geun-hye at the group’s Creative Economy Center in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, Tuesday. GS Group will co-invest 139 billion won ($124.6 million) with the province to nurture startups in the region. /  Yonhap

Making national flower

Children wave paper roses of Sharon, Korea’s national flower, and taegeukgi, the national flag, during an event at a discount store in southern Seoul, Tuesday, to mark June, the month to commemorate patriots. / Yonhap

Yoo Jae-suk gets JTBC show gig

Comedian Yoo Jae-suk / Korea Times fileBy Lee Min-hyungComedian Yoo Jae-suk will host a cable channel TV show for the first time.“Yoo will host a JTBC pilot program scheduled to air in August,” the cable TV network said Tuesday. “Details of the program have yet to be decided. The only thing confirmed is that Yoo will host the program.”Yoo, better known by his nickname, “MC of the nation,” has only appeared in programs on the nation’s four terrestrial channels.JTBC said PD Yoon Hyun-jun might have had a great influence on Yoo’s decision.“Yoo has been in a close relationship with Yoon for a long time. Maybe Yoo made the decision out of his trust and faith toward Yoon’s ability to make a fresh program.”The comedian-MC debuted in the KBS Comedian Festival in 1991 and has earned nationwide popularity for his wit and decent image.He has hosted many TV programs, including comedy variety show “X-Man” and “Infinite Challenge.”

Anthrax case angers NK

A live anthrax sample was sent to the United States Forces Korea's Osan Air Base, south of Seoul, last week. / YonhapBy Lee Min-hyungNorth Korea has expressed anger over the inadvertent shipment of a live anthrax sample to a U.S. military laboratory in South Korea.“The U.S. is provoking biochemical warfare to annihilate us,” a high-ranking North Korean official told the regime’s state-controlled Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).“It is proven that the U.S. has long prepared for the warfare.“The Park Geun-hye administration remained silent, though the U.S. conducted such horrible experiments.”.The North urged its people to fight against the South, which it claimed left the Korean Peninsula as a testing ground for biochemical war.Following the incident, the U.S. military said it was the first mistaken shipment and the first experiment at the South’s military base.Last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter met South Korean counterpart Han Min-koo and apologized for the incident. Carter promised to take measures to prevent its recurrence.But So

Bill Nighy, Vogue editor romance talk

/ Courtesy of Fromsarahwithjoy blog There is speculation “Love Actually” actor Bill Nighy may be in a relationship with U.S. Vogue Editor Anna Wintour.They have been seen together at fashion shows, including the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last month.“Well, I have obviously nothing to say about that,” Nighy told an American paper, according to the Daily Mail. “There are a lot of rumors about me and probably about Anna Wintour.”Nighy broke up with actress Diana Quick in 2008. They have a daughter, Mary Nighy, an actress.Wintour divorced David Shaffer in 1999. She has two children.