SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that sitting for long periods of time may increase the chance of a resistance towards insulin, with those sitting 10 hours per day up to 1.6 times more likely than those sitting for less than 5 hours to develop insulin resistance. Once cells begin [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Daijin Bed Co., a South Korean mattress maker, has refused to accept the local consumer agency’s call for it to compensate victims of products that contained a harmful radioactive substance, officials of the agency said Sunday. Late last month, the company told the Korea Consumer Agency (KCA) that it [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7. (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday announced a set of measures to remove the fundamental causes cited for drop in country’s birthrate, including the high cost of child-rearing and increasing number of people opting not to have children. The roadmap was finalized as Kim Sang-hee, vice-chairwoman of a presidential committee aimed [...]
JEJU, Dec. 7. (Korea Bizwire) — The Greenland International Medical Center, conditionally approved earlier this week as South Korea’s first for-profit hospital, has expressed an intent to take legal action over the Jeju provincial government’s decision to ban South Korean patients from using the hospital, officials said Friday. Gov. Won Hee-ryong of the Jeju Special [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean scientists have discovered a substance that could be used as a new malaria treatment in a rare native microorganism found on the East Sea island of Ulleung, a state-run research center said Thursday. The Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) said its scientists found the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite South Korea’s national health insurance plan, 8 out of 10 citizens also subscribe to private health insurance policies. Because public insurance only covers up to 60 percent of medical bills, analysts say that people are looking to private insurance policies to help offset the medical costs that they [...]
JEJU, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first for-profit hospital received the final approval from the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province on Wednesday, putting an end to 16 years of controversy over the introduction of investor-owned medical institutions. Jeju Gov. Won Hee-ryong announced the approval of the Greenland International Hospital as a for-profit hospital on [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people donating organs to hospitals after going brain dead is declining. This year, the number is expected to be less than 500. According to the Korea Organ Donation Agency, the number of people whose organs were donated with consent from family members reached its peak in [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A cold air mass gripped South Korea on Wednesday morning, with many regions experiencing season-low temperatures, as the weather agency issued warnings against cold weather in most areas. Among the locations, the mercury fell to record lows for the year so far of minus 4 C in Seoul, minus [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 20 percent of South Koreans regard themselves as unhappy, according to a recent survey. The Korea Development Institute queried 2,000 participants in a survey, with 20.2 percent of the respondents saying that they felt unhappy in the past, as well as in the present, and don’t expect [...]