DAEJEON, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A team of researchers has developed a monitoring technology that accurately administers even a drop of drugs and prevents dosage errors, helping to reduce medical accidents. The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) said Thursday it has developed a technology that measures even the smallest quantity of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Taxi drivers are being trained to become ‘lifeguards’ to prevent people from committing suicide. The Life Insurance Social Contribution Committee announced on Thursday that it plans to work with the Citizens’ Coalition for Safety (CCS) and the Korea Best Driver Association to train taxi drivers to prevent others from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government on Thursday said it plans to introduce a system to make public the country’s wage distribution, for the first time, in December in a bid to narrow severe wage disparity among workers. The system is part of a set of measures worked out by the government and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is set to launch a special crackdown on the origin of imported fisheries products. Targeted items include a large number of imported fishery products that are imported from Japan. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the National Fishery Products Quality Management Service (NFQS) said Tuesday they [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government said Tuesday it has installed air-purifying filters on 97 percent of public buses operating in the city. The move comes amid growing concerns over fine dust air pollution, which is known to be a potential cause of respiratory diseases and cancer. Following a test-run last [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Group said Monday it will launch a new entity in the United States to better manage its contract manufacturing organization (CMO) business. SK Holdings Co., the conglomerate’s holding firm, said its board members have approved a plan to establish SK Pharmteco in Sacramento, California, by January. The company [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Men who work at night are 3.3 times more likely to fail to quit smoking than daytime workers, a recent study has revealed. In particular, 9 out of 10 young men in their 20s and 30s who work at night were found to be unable to quit smoking. A [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Fire Agency (NFA) will hold a week-long “Heart Racing 100″ campaign from Monday to make cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) fun to learn. The campaign will proceed with a “Heart Racing Dance,” which expresses cardiopulmonary resuscitation methods. Users will post short video of themselves dancing on Tik Tok, the [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of people in South Korea aged 65 years or older could increase sharply amid a rapidly aging population, the country’s statistics agency said Monday. Statistics Korea forecast that the country’s population is likely to reach 39 million in 2067, sharply down from 51.7 million in 2019. It [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean scientists has successfully used common roundworms to quickly and effectively check a medicinal material that can be developed to treat various human intestinal diseases, a state-run research institute said Sunday. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) said a team, led by Kang [...]