"There is no reason or need to give up on dialogue at this point, " said Cheon Ho-sun, a spokesman for South Korea's president.

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The UDC results were announced by Dr. Kwang Ohk Cheon, Senior Research Scientist at Universal Display, during the 10th International Meeting on Information Display (IMID 2010), from October 11 to 15 in Korea.

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"We will sincerely plead with the United States to take more substantial and meaningful measures to resolve this crisis, " Rep. Cheon Young-se of the liberal Democratic Labor Party said before the delegation set off.

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The Bank of Japan's bond purchases, known as quantitative easing, could have significant implications for global bond markets "if Japanese investors are forced to look abroad for higher yielding alternatives, " said Deutsche Bank analyst Gene Cheon.

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