SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, which was recently dubbed COVID-19, hospitals culture in South Korea is also changing. With strict control over all hospital visitors, the culture of friends and family members visiting patients is changing. A recent hospital visit confirmed the precautions that hospital officials are [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign subscribers to South Korea’s state health insurance program surged in 2019 to top the 1 million mark after the country required long-stay foreigners to sign up for it, data showed Wednesday. According to the data from the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), there were slightly [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are refraining from making blood donations following the spread of the coronavirus infection in the country. “Supplying blood is becoming more difficult due to a dwindling number of donors amid the coronavirus spread,” said the Korean Red Cross on Wednesday. Since January 20, after the first case [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will launch a research project to develop a novel coronavirus drug and vaccine, the public health agency said Wednesday, after the country genetically isolated the potentially deadly virus that has spread across the world. Currently, there is no viable treatment for the novel coronavirus that has killed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — With new cases of coronavirus infection, commonly known as the Wuhan coronavirus, spreading around the world, attention is being paid to kimchi in the U.S. This is due to the fact that the immune effects of kimchi were expressed during the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak. A [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 85,000 terminally ill South Koreans have chosen to forgo life-prolonging treatment since the legalization of the right to die with dignity two years ago, government data showed Tuesday. The law took effect on Feb. 4, 2018, allowing terminal patients to sign up to forgo a “meaningless extension [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As the number of single-person households increases, especially for men and women in their 40s and 50s, the need to come up with appropriate housing measures has been voiced. The Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements suggested in a recent report that housing policies should be reset to reflect [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has found a link between depression and knee pain. A research team from the Jaseng Hospital of Korean Medicine selected 2,658 people aged 50 or older as subjects of the 2014 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys and conducted a survey analysis on whether they [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s per capita annual rice consumption fell to a record low in 2019 amid changes in diet and eating habits, data showed Thursday. Per capita average annual rice consumption hit a fresh low of 59.2 kilograms last year, down 3 percent from a year earlier, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has found that many unmarried men and women in South Korea feel that marriage avoidance in Korean society is a serious social issue, but most believe that marriage is not necessary. According to a survey of 1,000 unmarried men and women aged 19 to 44 conducted [...]