DAEJEON, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team from the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM) revealed scientific evidence that acupuncture is effective against Alzheimer’s disease. There are currently 830,000 people over 65 years of age with dementia in South Korea, which means that at least 1 in 10 senior citizens in the country [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The coronavirus scare is shutting down various concerts and exhibitions, depriving citizens of leisure and cultural activities. Instead, they are engaging in home training and other leisure activities they can enjoy at home. Due to the increasing number of coronavirus infections, citizens are staying away from hobbies such as [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s total fertility rate hit an all-time low in 2019, government data showed Wednesday, a clear sign of its population decline down the road. The country’s total fertility rate, which refers to the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime, came to 0.92 last year, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Child care has become a looming burden for parents whose children’s schools are closing for the next two weeks as part of the government’s urgent fight against the spread of the new coronavirus. With the number of patients reaching the high hundreds, the government on Sunday announced a set [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — There were fewer smokers among military service members last year, a recent study revealed. The Ministry of Health and Welfare and Ministry of Defense conducted a survey of 4,000 service members between Nov. 20 and Dec. 10 of last year. Smokers accounted for 40.7 percent of all service members, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The majority of victims in a deadly humidifier sanitizer scandal that broke out in 2011 are still suffering from various physical and mental illnesses, a report showed Tuesday. Around 83 percent of the respondents said they suffer from lung-related illnesses, while 71 percent and 56.6 percent are suffering from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — It all began on Jan. 20. South Korea reported its first case of the new coronavirus, which emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and can cause pneumonia-like illness. As the days went by, the number of patients began to rise, with fears over the little-known disease also [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The 17th coronavirus-infected patient in South Korean, who was discharged Wednesday after successful treatment, sent a letter of thanks to the medical team. Patient number 17, a 37-year-old man, sent an e-mail to a medical team at Myongji Hospital in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, where he was receiving treatment. “I [...]
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 [...]