SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has indicated that more than 650 people will die annually due to summer heat waves in Seoul alone, and the social cost will reach more than 110 billion won each year in the upcoming future. This estimate was reached by analyzing data gathered from the [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Online trading of agricultural goods has established itself as an important channel for these products. The ‘Online Direct Transaction Market for Farm Produce (www.eat.co.kr)’ operated by the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation has grown rapidly in only three years since opening, with approximately 1 trillion won in agricultural [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting this October, the city government of Seoul will offer five programs designed to offer high school students who choose not to enter college opportunities for continued education, self-improvement, and future career planning. The ratio of high school students in Seoul entering college has dropped from 62.8 percent in [...]
SEJONG, South Korea, Aug 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport unveiled a modern-styled ‘Model Hanok’ at 2 pm on Friday, August 23. The new hanok, or Korean traditional house, is cost-efficient at only about 60 percent of conventional construction costs and more comfortable than the traditional hanok. While interest in traditional [...]
The total fertility rate of Korea, which is the average number of babies a woman can have in her lifetime, is still ranked near the bottom of the list among major OECD countries. The rate in the United States is over 2.0, while those for France and Britain are expected to exceed the 2.0 level [...]
GAPYEONG, South Korea, Aug 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The CheongShim International Medical Center, Korea’s first international medical center and an internationally renowned hospital for both domestic and foreign patients, is drawing interest for its special medical vacation program for Japanese patients. Designated as an international hospital in 2006, CSMC offers a unique internationalized medical vacation service, [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 23 (Korea Bizwire) – How do you make sure your child gets home safe and sound when school is out? Should you pick her up every single day from the school gate to the safety of home? If the preschool operates buses, how do you know the school buses are safe enough? [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Aug 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Rural Development Administration announced that it has developed a technology called “Virtual Screening” that allows animal pathologists to predict the mechanism and effectiveness of specific target proteins in domesticated animals’ immune system and physiology. The virtual screening technology is based on a premise that molecules with similar [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Celebration of one hundredth day of newborns and their first birthday are important milestones for Korean parents with small children. All family members and relatives gather to bless newborns, enjoy the parties, and give some cash gifts to babies’ parents. After collecting the money from their friends and [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Aug 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The state-run Rural Development Administration has developed an agricultural technology of eliminating bad odor coming from food waste. A team of researchers at RDA came up with the new technology by combining pine cone leftover after pine nuts are extracted with bacillus, a type of microorganism cultured from [...]