SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Kang Byung-min, a 33-year-old office worker living in Geumho in center-east Seoul, starts his day with a morning ritual that he admits has become somewhat obsessive but unavoidable. He turns on the palm-sized monitor placed against the window to check the day’s fine dust level. He checks air quality [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A law revision recently passed a parliamentary committee to ban selling coffee at all elementary, middle and high schools, the food ministry said Thursday. Proposed changes would remove coffee and coffee drinks from school cafeterias, snack stores and vending machines, which mostly cater to faculty members, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – One in two migraine patients in South Korea also suffer from depression and anxiety disorders, a new study has found. The study released by the Korean Headache Society in time for ‘Migraine Day’ on Wednesday revealed just over half of migraine patients were found to suffer from depression, which disrupts [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – High fine dust levels have been found to increase the risk of angina, a new study has found. Exposure to fine dust particles can increase the risk of angina, which is often a symptom of coronary heart disease that causes pain the chest, according to researchers at the Korea University [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Senior officials of South Korea and China have agreed to step up cooperation to fight regional environmental issues, including fine dust, the foreign ministry said Friday. During a meeting of the South Korea-China joint committee on environmental cooperation in Changdong, China on Thursday, the foreign ministry’s Director-General for environmental [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean public servants on around-the-clock duties, such as police and customs officials, work about 1,000 hours more a year than public workers in member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a government survey showed Tuesday. According to the Ministry of Personnel and Management’s survey, government [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The successive deaths of four newborns at a hospital’s intensive care unit last month were caused by blood poisoning from a bacterial infection, police said Friday. Blood tests on the infants showed that all of them were infected with Citrobacter freundii, which can cause fatal symptoms in immunocompromised patients, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major hospitals have launched task forces to care for injured athletes participating in the Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games in PyeongChang next month, sources said Wednesday. Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) said it has formed a team made up of 130 medical staff, including 48 doctors, so [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a synthetic nanomaterial that can kill cancer cells. A joint research team comprising professors from Yonsei University College of Medicine and Ewha Womans University said on Monday that it has discovered a new ‘cancer cell-killing’ synthetic nanomaterial combining zinc phthalocyanine inducers (ZnPcS8) and anticancer [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Three in 10 people diagnosed in the early stages of diabetes or high blood pressure develop the diseases within 10 years, a government report showed Tuesday. According to the report by the National Health Insurance Service, 31.3 percent of the people who were diagnosed in the early stages actually [...]