SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s nuclear safety agency on Thursday announced a set of measures to prevent a recurrence of radon-emitting consumer products, including banning the use of the radioactive mineral monazite. The measures come as a number of consumer products ranging from mattresses to accessories have been found to emit higher-than-permissible [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Experts say that more than 13 million South Koreans have now gotten a tattoo as they are becoming more conventional and demand for permanent makeup is on the increase in South Korea. The Standard, a South Korean company that produces dyes for tattoos, said that more than 3 million [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has revealed that an increasing number of South Koreans over the age of 40 are receiving orthodontics treatment. The Korean Association of Orthodontists (KAO) conducted a study based on data from university hospitals and general hospitals in five major cities in South Korea — Seoul, Busan, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will expand providing free medical examinations to more than 7 million people in their 20s and 30s next year, the government said Wednesday. According to a revision to the relevant health law that will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2019, some 7.2 million people who had [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The recent death of a middle school student in Incheon who fell from an apartment rooftop after being assaulted by classmates is turning into a hot button issue as the victim turned out to be a child from a multicultural, single-parent family. The victim’s mother is a Russian national [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the prolonged international sanctions on North Korea, the health of the North’s infants and pregnant women is in a very vulnerable state, a South Korean government think tank said Tuesday. The Seoul-based Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs said in a report that North Korea’s maternal mortality [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A new report has found that the global “smart” healthcare industry could grow by 21.1 percent per year by 2020. The report published by Samjong KPMG, one of Korea’s leading accounting firms, stated that the size of the smart healthcare market had grown from $79 billion in 2015 to $142 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has found that 13 South Koreans die on average per day due to alcohol-related circumstances. In addition, such high levels of alcohol consumption are costing society nearly 1 trillion won every year. Alcohol, along with cigarette ingredients arsenic and cadmium, are considered highly carcinogenic and addictive. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A technical committee tasked with verifying the accuracy of current databases for car exhaust emissions per each car model type has been launched by Ministry of Environment, according to an announcement by the ministry yesterday. The committee is composed of 30 professionals in the industry including researchers attached to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to deliver an official apology on the long-standing dispute surrounding its former workers suffering from diseases apparently related to the working environments at its factories, the mediation committee said Wednesday. The apology is part of the agreement reached between one of the world’s leading makers [...]