SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Worsening fine dust pollution has changed the sales rankings of home appliances over the past three years as more people buy air purifiers and clothes dryers, industry data showed Wednesday. According to leading discount retailer E-Mart, sales of home appliances related to air pollution have jumped over the past [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Smokers that use electronic cigarettes may be susceptible to wheezing, a recent study has showed. Wheezing refers to a continuous, coarse, whistling sound produced in the respiratory airways during breathing. Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases are known to be the main causes of wheezing. Wheezing, if severe, may [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is moving to designate fine dust concentrations as a disaster in law, part of its countermeasures to the nation’s worsening air pollution problem, officials said Tuesday. If fine dust pollution is legally recognized as a disaster, the government will work out concrete criteria for damage assessment and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Income has a greater impact than assets on consumption by South Korean households comprised of seniors, a parliamentary report said Tuesday. A 1 percent increase in elderly households’ earned income made their consumption expenditure go up 0.09 percent between 2006-2016, according to the report by the National Assembly Budget [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. said Monday that its investment-focused affiliate has signed a deal with a local hospital to provide health care and tailored medical services to patients. Kakao Investment plans to invest 10 billion won (US$8.9 million) in a joint venture between Yonsei University [...]
JEJU, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The government of Jeju Province said Monday it will take steps to nullify its conditional approval of a Chinese-owned medical center as South Korea’s first for-profit hospital. The Shanghai-based Greenland Group recently requested the extension of the March 4 deadline for the opening of the Greenland International Medical Center [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean plans to build 550 national and public kindergartens and childcare centers this year in line with ongoing efforts to boost the country’s low birthrate, the government said Thursday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said it has decided to increase the number of new centers from 450, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — According to Prof. Kim Kyong-nam of Seoul National University (SNU) Hospital on Wednesday, there is a gap of 10 or more years when comparing average life expectancy in North and South Korea. North Korean men live an average of 66.2 years, compared to 72.9 years for women. This is [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industry ministry said Thursday it will suspend the operation of old coal power plants over the March-June period to cope with the intensifying level of fine dust in the country. The Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy said it will shut down four of the six plants [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that blue light can help people wake up more easily in the morning. A research team led by Prof. Seok Hyun-jung and Prof. Choi Kyung-ah from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said on Wednesday that a light in the color [...]