SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly a quarter of salaried workers in South Korea did not use their vacation time from August 2015 through July of last year, a report by a local culture and tourism organization said Monday. The findings, based on a survey of 4,357 people nationwide by the Korea Culture and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) decided on September 1 to increase the number of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) to be examined in sanitary pads for women from the current 10 to 86 substances. “We have added 76 more VOCs to the current 10 substances for examination, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean teenagers infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is steadily increasing, with health and education authorities planning to ramp up efforts to better educate young people in a bid to stop the spread of the potentially deadly virus. Statistics released by the Gyeonggi provincial government [...]
JUNGSUN, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Casino resort Kangwon Land has announced plans to establish a new foundation dedicated to tackling addiction to smartphones, internet, video games and shopping. Having held a conference on addiction treatment to assess the current situation and discuss policy last November, Kangwon Land held a seminar earlier this week at its [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The widespread depiction of suicide in TV series and online cartoons is numbing the minds South Korean adolescents, as a recent report has claimed too much exposure could have a negative impact, including copycat suicides in the worst-case scenario. According to findings from a joint study conducted by the [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will expand free range livestock husbandry in raising chickens as a way to improve food safety following the recent pesticide egg scandal that rocked the nation, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday. At the policy briefing held before President Moon Jae-in in Sejong, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Amidst the growing threat of hepatitis E from European ham and sausages, South Korean public health authorities have announced plans to launch an inquiry to determine the infection route of the disease in the country. According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) on Sunday, the inquiry [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s animal quarantine agency said Sunday that is has acquired know-how to make its own bird flu vaccines. The Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency (APQA) said that it has developed candidate vaccine materials for its “antigen bank” that targets the H5N6 and H5N1 strains of avian influenza (AI). [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s animal quarantine agency said Sunday that its has developed the world’s first diagnosis kit that can simultaneously check three different types of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) strains. The kit is able to detect the O, A and Asia 1 serum types of the highly contagious disease that affects [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A disturbing number of posts encouraging suicide by introducing possible methods and suicide-pact recruiting have been identified in internet communities and on SNS. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare on August 24, the Korea Suicide Prevention Center and Nuricops, the cybercrime monitoring organization affiliated with the National [...]