SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of big players in the finance sector are moving to regulate team dinners and other work-related social activities. Specifically, from January 8, Hyundai Card Co. has banned late night get-togethers after 11 p.m. under new internal regulations. If this rule is violated, a warning will be given [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A stress-measuring sensor that could be inserted into the human body to measure stress in real-time has been created by a South Korean research team. The Korea Research Foundation announced on Tuesday that a joint research team led by Prof. Kim Tae-il from Sungkyunkwan University and Prof. Choi Young-jin [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — As many as eight in 10 South Koreans have experienced exposure to secondhand smoke from neighbors, but most of them refrained from making complaints, a poll showed Tuesday. The survey of 1,542 residents in Gyeonggi Province, the nation’s most populous province that surrounds Seoul, found that 1,197 respondents, or [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of hand sanitizers and facial masks, as well as health products, spiked last month amid influenza season, industry data showed Tuesday. According to the data by discount store chain Lotte Mart, sales of facial masks jumped 15.6 percent in the Dec. 1-30 period compared to a year earlier. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Seongnam in Gyeonggi Province announced on January 6 that it will introduce and implement a new policy of medical expense subsidies for the first time in Korea starting in July. The new policy is to support medical expenses for children under 18 years old. If the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The prevalence rate of chronic diseases, including diabetes and hypertension, is higher among people with low incomes or living in rural areas, government data showed Friday. According to the data by the Korea Health Promotion Institute, the prevalence rate of people over the age of 30 with diabetes came [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Patients suffering from pulmonary diseases will be able to receive lung transplant operations using organs donated by living people, the government said Friday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said a revision to the relevant law was passed on Dec. 27, with the motion set to take effect following [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of undocumented immigrant children in South Korea is estimated to exceed 20,000, but their basic rights to education and health are not protected, civic activists said Thursday, calling for swift countermeasures from the government. Unregistered children of foreign migrant workers live all across South Korea after arriving [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean medical institutions are in shock after a patient fatally stabbed a doctor at a major hospital in Seoul. South Korean police reported that on December 31, a patient at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital stabbed a psychiatrist multiple times in the chest. South Korean hospitals have pointed out that [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Actress Lee Young-ae has announced that she will be joining a consortium to acquire the nation’s first women’s hospital, which is on the verge of closing. Because Lee gave birth to all her children at Cheil General Hospital & Women’s Healthcare Center and visits the hospital occasionally, she has [...]