SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — With the South Korean government’s import ban of Japanese fisheries products gaining the recognition of the World Trade Organization, the Korean Nuclear Society (KNS) has made an announcement that appears to represent the Japanese government’s position. The KNS held a press conference at the Korea Press Center in Seoul [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea unveiled its “tobacco endgame” plan that calls for adopting uniform, plain packaging for all cigarettes and more graphic warning labels to push people to quit smoking, the government said Tuesday. The comprehensive endeavor, reached by the public health policy review committee, aims to lower the smoking rate [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — As the ‘war on botox strains’ is escalating between Medytox Inc. and Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co., the tension between the two companies is becoming worse day by day. Medytox has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), accusing Daewoong of stealing the company’s botox strains. Daewoong has [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is heating up over the pros and cons of installing closed-circuit television (CCTV) in operating rooms as a bill requiring the installation of CCTV cameras in operating rooms was scrapped a day after it was proposed. The medical community is at odds with the position of patient advocacy [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A supplier of tuberculosis vaccines for infants was fined and brought to prosecution for cutting the supply of free vaccines in order to sell expensive vaccine products. The Fair Trade Commission fined Korea Vaccine Co. 990 million won (US$830,000) and filed complaints with the prosecution against company staff for [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Celltrion Inc. will invest 40 trillion won (US$33.7 billion) and create 110,000 jobs by 2030 as the South Korean biosimilar firm moves to take a leap forward as a global player, the company’s chairman said Thursday. The company’s business roadmap centers on cooperating with local governments to make the [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Mobile applications providing weather information are gaining huge popularity in South Korea as more people seek to monitor the fine dust air pollution that often blankets the country, industry data showed Thursday. The number of downloads of weather mobile apps at Google Play jumped to 2.8 million in the [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has shown that a lack of sleep can exacerbate the risk of disorders in the temporomandibular joint located in the jaw. A research team led by Prof. Shim Hye-young from the Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center analyzed the risk of a jaw joint disorder among [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Sixteen percent of young South Korean students are at risk of smartphone or Internet addiction, a poll released by the government said Tuesday. According to the survey of 1,286,567 fourth, seventh and 10th graders by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, 206,102 students, or 16 percent, were found [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technology are being incorporated to raise the accuracy of disease diagnosis. A research team from Seoul National University Bundang Hospital developed a technology to diagnose sinusitis using a deep learning algorithm that raises diagnostic accuracy. Sinusitis is inflammation of the mucous membrane that [...]