SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeju provincial government on Wednesday nullified the business license of a Chinese-owned medical center as South Korea’s first for-profit hospital as it missed the deadline for the launch of its operation. The Shanghai-based Greenland Group recently requested an extension of the March 4 deadline for the opening of [...]
BUSAN, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 5,000 people over 65 years of age voluntarily turned in their driver’s license in Busan last year. Ever since a new policy was first implemented allowing senior drivers to turn in their driver’s license, the number of fatal car accidents committed by senior drivers has dropped by [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study in South Korea has found that the excessive accumulation of acid-causing substances in the body increases the risk of death by up to 15 times. Prof. Kim Se-joong and his team at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital announced on Tuesday that they had classified 4,488 patients [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Capt. Heo Jun-nyeong of the 21st Infantry Division of the ROK Army has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can predict the aftereffects of a stroke. The Army announced on Sunday that Heo’s paper on the AI program was published by Stroke, an internationally acclaimed journal on strokes. [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The recent ruling by the South Korean constitutional court that has called punitive measures against abortion unconstitutional has rekindled the controversial debate over ‘abortion pills’. Women’s rights advocacy groups and pharmacist organizations have called for the introduction of Mifegyne, a pill-shaped medication that induces abortion, while others have argued [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — High-emission vehicles will be restricted from the center of Seoul beginning in July this year, as part of the municipal government’s new policy measures to reduce fine dust pollution in the capital, it was announced Monday. Grade 5 emission vehicles, mostly diesel cars, will be barred from entering Seoul’s [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — For workers who are always suffering from sleep deprivation due to their busy daily lives, the weekend is a time of opportunity to sleep in. However, there are still conflicting views on the health effects of such sleeping habits. Some studies show that oversleeping on weekends raises the risk [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday welcomed the World Trade Organization’s decision to rule in favor of Seoul’s import restrictions on Japanese seafood in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and said it would keep the ban in place going forward. The WTO appellate body overturned several points of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A state-run research body said Thursday it will plant more trees indigenous to South Korea’s largest island of Jeju as the tree is confirmed to have lowered the concentration of harmful PM2.5 particles indoors. The Institute of Biological Resources, affiliated with the environment ministry, implemented a pilot project from [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The government of Seoul said Thursday it will install signal lights to display levels of fine dust air pollution at all riverside parks in the capital to caution citizens against health hazards. A total of 12 fine dust signal lamps will be installed at major entrances to all of [...]