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FILE - In this undated file photo released by LG Electronics Inc., a model poses with an LG Electronics' 105-inch ultra-HD TV with a curved screen in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung Electronics Co., which is preparing for the global launch of the Galaxy S5 smartphone on April 11, 2014, said it is making “concentrated efforts” to ensure its communications around the world respectfully portray women. Some of its promotions and corporate events in the past year were criticized as sexist and demeaning. The advertising of LG Electronics Inc. has also been under scrutiny in South Korea and abroad for its portrayal of women. (AP Photo/LG Electronics Inc., File)

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South Korean and U.S. Marines aim their machine guns during the U.S.-South Korea joint landing exercises called Ssangyong, part of the Foal Eagle military exercises, in Pohang, South Korea. (Associated Press)

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Inbee Park, of South Korea, watches her shot from the rough on the second hole during the pro-am at the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship golf tournament on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Rancho Mirage, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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Inbee Park, of South Korea, watches her tee shot on the second hole during the pro-am at the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship golf tournament on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 in Rancho Mirage, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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Inbee Park, of South Korea, watches her tee shot on the fifth hole during the pro-am at the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship golf tournament on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Rancho Mirage, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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Inbee Park, of South Korea, watches her shot from the bunker on the fourth hole during the pro-am at the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship golf tournament on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Rancho Mirage, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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A South Korean soldier guards with his gun at a guard post at sunrise on Baengnyeong Island, South Korea, near the West Sea border with North Korea Wednesday, April 2, 2014. South Korea suspects that an unmanned drone that crashed on a frontline South Korean island was flown by rival North Korea. The drone crashed on Baengnyeong island Monday when the two Koreas fired hundreds of artillery shells into each other's waters in a flare-up of animosity over a long-disputed sea boundary between the countries. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Hong Hae-in) KOREA OUT