SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Center have formed a social consultative body to have a social debate on how to improve genetically modified organism (GMO) labeling and draw a social consensus on the matter. A representative of ADR Center, Kang Young-jin, was [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that 60 percent of Koreans want to live overseas after retirement. Prudential Life Insurance Co. conducted a survey of 500 men and women living in Seoul and five major cities in South Korea, 60.4 percent of whom said they wanted to live abroad once [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of youths getting treated for alcohol addiction neared 2,000 last year, doubling from seven years ago, a report said Wednesday. The drinking rate among the young is declining, but the severity of problems from drinking is still heavy, with one out of two youths drinking to dangerous [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that sitting for long periods of time may increase the chance of a resistance towards insulin, with those sitting 10 hours per day up to 1.6 times more likely than those sitting for less than 5 hours to develop insulin resistance. Once cells begin [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Daijin Bed Co., a South Korean mattress maker, has refused to accept the local consumer agency’s call for it to compensate victims of products that contained a harmful radioactive substance, officials of the agency said Sunday. Late last month, the company told the Korea Consumer Agency (KCA) that it [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7. (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday announced a set of measures to remove the fundamental causes cited for drop in country’s birthrate, including the high cost of child-rearing and increasing number of people opting not to have children. The roadmap was finalized as Kim Sang-hee, vice-chairwoman of a presidential committee aimed [...]
JEJU, Dec. 7. (Korea Bizwire) — The Greenland International Medical Center, conditionally approved earlier this week as South Korea’s first for-profit hospital, has expressed an intent to take legal action over the Jeju provincial government’s decision to ban South Korean patients from using the hospital, officials said Friday. Gov. Won Hee-ryong of the Jeju Special [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean scientists have discovered a substance that could be used as a new malaria treatment in a rare native microorganism found on the East Sea island of Ulleung, a state-run research center said Thursday. The Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) said its scientists found the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite South Korea’s national health insurance plan, 8 out of 10 citizens also subscribe to private health insurance policies. Because public insurance only covers up to 60 percent of medical bills, analysts say that people are looking to private insurance policies to help offset the medical costs that they [...]
JEJU, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first for-profit hospital received the final approval from the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province on Wednesday, putting an end to 16 years of controversy over the introduction of investor-owned medical institutions. Jeju Gov. Won Hee-ryong announced the approval of the Greenland International Hospital as a for-profit hospital on [...]