SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean conglomerate SK Group is seeking to list its pharmaceutical unit on the country’s stock market by the end of this year, industry sources said Thursday. SK Holdings Co., the conglomerate’s holding firm, held a board meeting last month to pass a plan for SK Biopharmaceuticals Co.’s initial [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will review whether to set up a training camp in Japan for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to radioactivity concerns over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown, the sports minister said Wednesday. Sports Minister Park Yang-woo told a parliamentary committee that the government will discuss the issue [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Steamy weather in the summer and in-between seasons with fluctuating temperatures increases the risk of hair loss. Hair loss impacts the psychological state of a person in addition to the physical state, and may trigger depression and lower self-esteem. Most men, when experiencing unusual loss of hair, begin to [...]
CHUNCHEON, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Gangwon Province will offer programs of appreciation for firefighters who fought the catastrophic fire on the East Coast in April. Gangwon Agricultural Research and Extension Services (GWARES) will invite 7,000 firefighters across the country who fought the East Coast fire and 140 agricultural experts who helped out at damaged [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — As the use of eco-friendly wood in timber houses and interior designs has increased recently, attention is being paid as to whether phytoncides are being emitted from the processed wood. The Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI), an affiliated organization of with the Korea Forest Service, analyzed volatile substances that [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea should restrict imports of processed foods from Japan’s Fukushima region as radiation has been found in shipments, an opposition lawmaker said Monday. South Korea banned all seafood imports from eight Japanese prefectures near Fukushima in 2013 on concerns over their radiation levels in the wake of the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Humidifier disinfectants, suspected to have been a cause for at least dozens of deaths, were widely used in military barracks and hospitals in the early 2000s, a state-funded agency revealed Monday, raising speculation that a large number of service members could have been exposed to the chemicals. The Special [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The special investigative panel recommended Monday that power plant operators end the practice of outsourcing major maintenance work to subcontractors, completing a probe into the death of a young contract worker. Kim Yong-gyun, a 24-year-old contract worker, was killed in a conveyor belt accident in December last year at [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has found that young South Koreans feel depressed, while older people are more likely to feel anxiety. Koo Hye-ran, a research professor at Seoul National University, analyzed the emotions of South Koreans through the framework of Baysian Network Analysis in her recently published paper, “A Nation [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim In-hwan spends most of her time by herself in a small apartment in Seoul. But the 83-year-old with no family says she’s not lonely thanks to a new talking buddy named Aria, the virtual assistant of SK Telecom Co.’s artificial intelligence (AI) speaker, NUGU. Waking up to the [...]