SEOUL, Jul. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A consortium led by telecom giant KT Corp. will monitor and combat infectious diseases in real-time by using big data, the company said Friday. The consortium was selected by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning to establish the big data system for monitoring and surveillance of the [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A government-backed South Korean research institute that owns a high-speed norovirus diagnosis solution has landed a deal with American medical firm GermainLab that will see the copyright for the technology exchanged between the two parties in return for royalties. The norovirus diagnosis technology was developed by a research team [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans generally have a more severe perception of environmental pollution than their counterparts in China and Japan, a study said Thursday. According to the study by a research team from the University of Utah, South Koreans gave 2.67 points on air pollution on a scale of one to [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A criminal complaint was lodged against the South Korean unit of McDonald’s on Wednesday by parents who claim that their daughter became permanently ill after eating one of its burgers that was served with undercooked meat. The plaintiffs said their four-year-old girl was diagnosed with hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), a [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s national health insurance system faces challenges from the rapidly aging society, although it has been acclaimed as one of the world’s most effective in terms of universal coverage. The national health care system achieved universal coverage for all people in 1989, 12 years after it was launched [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Social robots that are capable of showing a variety of facial expressions have been proven effective in treating autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a new medical study. The research team led by neuropsychiatry professor Yu Hee-jung at Seoul National University Hospital discovered there was little to no difference between [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Experts warn that cooking meat indoors without ventilation could see levels of ultra-fine dust increase by as much as nine times their normal values. According to a research team of environmental conservation led by professor Kim Sung-ryeol at Soon Chun Hyang University, cooking meat without opening a window to ventilate [...]
SEOUL, July. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — With over seven in 10 people using a smartphone, it’s not a rare sight in South Korea to see pedestrians walking down the street blissfully oblivious to their surroundings, or a subway train carriage packed with commuters completely immersed in what’s on their phone screen. Though it might seem [...]
SEOUL, July. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Casino and resort operator Kangwon Land is set to go forward with a nursing home project after agreeing to join local efforts to transform abandoned mining areas into the country’s dementia research and care capital. Kangwon Land’s decision to build a new dementia care facility comes after a special [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Approximately 2 million Koreans received medical treatment following car accidents last year, with the total medical costs paid out by car insurance companies amounting to approximately 1.7 trillion won. Of those requiring medical care, 6 out of 10 were diagnosed with neck injuries. The average medical cost per person [...]