SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Thursday acquitted seven doctors and nurses at Ewha Womans University Hospital of criminal charges brought against them over the deaths of four newborns by bacterial infection at the western Seoul hospital in December 2017. The Seoul Southern District Court said it has found four doctors [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is rising among Seoulites as the Seoul Metropolitan Government reportedly has been looking into the possibility of offering monthly stipends to young residents, no strings attached. The city government announced on Wednesday that the Seoul Institute and LAB2050, a private research institution, have proposed implementing the plan for [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NIMS) in Daejeon will be creating a new medical mathematics center to conduct research that can raise the success rate of designing effective treatment plans based on precise medical information. Medical mathematics takes into account mathematical explanations and modeling theories to solve various [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will allow imports of medical cannabis starting next month, health authorities said Tuesday, as part of efforts to provide more treatment options for patients with rare diseases. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said the National Assembly has passed a bill to amend a relevant law [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has decided to measure the levels of electromagnetic waves generated by portable fans and electronic cigarettes and disclose the results. The decision comes at a point where consumers have been facing constant difficulties accessing information about the level of electromagnetic waves being generated by these [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., South Korea’s leading telecommunications company, said Monday it launched an air quality monitoring application to provide detailed information on fine dust across the nation. The new mobile app, Air Map Korea, provides real-time information on fine-dust levels and suggests useful information for daily lives to address rising [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversies reignited on Friday over whether to allow abortion after a government survey showed that many women had opted to end their pregnancies due to socio-economic reasons. On Thursday, the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs released a survey on 10,000 women aged between 15 and 44, the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that younger South Korean women tend to wrongly think of themselves as overweight, while older women see themselves as slimmer than they actually are. A joint research team led by Prof. Lee Yu-mie from Yonsei Severance Hospital and Prof. Choi Kui-son from the National [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of abortions estimated to have been performed in South Korea stood at around 50,000 in 2017, sharply down from the past as more women use birth control, a report said Thursday. According to the report by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, the abortion rate [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of bitterly cold days has dropped in Seoul this winter, the national weather agency said Wednesday. The Korea Meteorological Administration said the number of days when the morning low dipped below minus 12C totaled just one, Dec. 28, between last October and Wednesday. By contrast, the number [...]