SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Friday it is preparing for a long battle against the new coronavirus amid the lack of an effective vaccine and treatment although the country is less likely to suffer another wave of the virus outbreak. The country, which reported its first COVID-19 case on Jan. 20, [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The vast majority of South Koreans agree that government agencies including the Ministry of Health and Welfare have done a good job in fighting the coronavirus. Health Consumers Network, a South Korean civic group, conducted a nationwide survey of 1,200 men and women between the ages of 20 and [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — “Whenever the animals I tested are killed as part of experiments, I feel guilty and suffer from stress. Am I mentally too weak?” This is a question raised on an online community for South Korean biological researchers by an individual who said he is now studying in a neuroscience [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus pandemic is having a significant impact on traditional newborn care practices as postnatal care centers have banned entry of all family members. Previously, mothers staying at these centers were able to be accompanied by their husband or one of their family members. Now, however, family members are [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Friday all foreign arrivals from countries with a high incidence of the novel coronavirus will be required to submit certificates that prove a negative test result as health authorities here try to stem a further rise in imported cases. Starting Monday, foreign nationals from countries that [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has revealed that elderly couples who live together for their entire lives are more likely to experience decrepitude and weight loss at the same time. The study, carried out by a research team led by Won Chang-won, professor of family medicine at Kyung Hee University Medical [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of blood donors in South Korea sank nearly 11 percent in the first five months of this year amid a prolonged coronavirus outbreak, data showed Wednesday. About 966,900 people donated blood in the January-May period, down 10.9 percent from some 1.08 million a year earlier, according to [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has sided with South Korean drugmaker Medytox Inc. in a trade dispute, saying its local rival Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. stole secrets on a botulinum toxin strain, industry officials here said Tuesday. In its preliminary verdict, a U.S. trade judge on Monday (U.S. time) [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean medical community has adopted virtual reality (VR) technology for the education of medical specialists with expertise on thoracic surgery. This move is line with the ever-growing ‘untact’ trend that has taken hold in the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak. The newly-coined term ‘untact’ refers to non-face-to-face [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Church-goers in South Korea, where religious services are typically characterized by large in-person gatherings, are growing increasingly dissatisfied with online worship, an inevitable reality at times given the government’s social distancing directives and the protracted coronavirus pandemic. According to a survey conducted by a publication operated by a Protestant [...]