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Yahoo! — It was all but certain even before Samsung launched the Galaxy S4, but now it appears to be official: the Galaxy S4 is Samsungs fastest-selling smartphone ever. Korea-based paper TheChosun Ilbo on Wednesday quoted an unnamed Samsung executive who shed some light on the blistering pace of Samsungs S4 channel sales. In just five days following the smartphones launch, Samsung apparently sold 4 million units into channels. For comparison, the first Galaxy S linetook 85 days for shipments to rea... (Technology)

CNN — If any American has the power of persuasion over North Korea's defiant young ruler, it might be eccentric ex-basketball star Dennis Rodman. (World)

Yahoo! — Senior Japanese politicians today attempted to prevent controversial comments about the country's military's use of sex slaves during World War II from souring its relations with South Korea and China. (World)

Yahoo! — (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen began a 15-year hard labor sentence at a ''special prison'' in North Korea on Wednesday, for what authorities described as crimes against the state, North Korean state news agency KCNA said. Kenneth Bae, 44, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in South Korea, was sentenced on April 30 after a North Korean court convicted him of what it said was an attempt at state subversion. Members of his family had told U.S. media at the time of his sentencing that Bae ... (U.S. News)

CNN — North Korea said Wednesday that the U.S. citizen it sentenced last month to 15 years of hard labor has begun his stay at a ''special prison.'' (World)

Reuters — Overtaking Apple Inc as the world's leading maker of smartphones has stretched Samsung Electronics Co's in-house supply lines, and the South Korean firm is now courting some of its rival's main parts suppliers.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654208/s/2c0659e6/mf.gif' border='0'/> (Technology)

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Reuters — A gay South Korean film director is set to symbolically marry his long-term partner, saying he aims to pry open the closet in this conservative Asian country where homosexuality is still taboo and gays have been subjected to hate crimes.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654204/s/2bf0d206/mf.gif' border='0'/> (Entertainment)

CNN — South Korean President Park Geun-hye apologized Monday for a damaging scandal involving a spokesman she fired last week over allegations of sexual misconduct in the United States. (World)