SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s sales of sugar by retailers plunged nearly 40 percent in 2016 from three years earlier, data showed Saturday, amid local health authorities’ efforts to promote healthier eating. According to the data compiled by the Food Information Statistics System, the combined amount of sugars sold through retailers came [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans’ healthy life expectancy is estimated to be nine years shorter than the country’s average lifespan, data showed Saturday, urging local health authorities to beef up efforts to improve public health. The country’s average healthy life expectancy, which is defined by the anticipated lifespan of people without any [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of environmental activists and residents near the Nakdong River has filed a class-action suit against the government over the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project initiated by former President Lee Myung-bak, which led to water contamination. With more than 300 people behind the pursuit of legal action including [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent report highlighting the deterioration of mental health among South Korean youth has been published at a time when the country mired in a period of high youth unemployment, which is forcing many young South Koreans to give up on marriage, having a child or buying a house. [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Seaweed has been hailed as the next superfood by the Western media as of late, drumming up a great amount of interest for its health benefits, but sales of the plant have been decreasing for some time in South Korea along with the drop in rice consumption, and the government [...]
SEJONG, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – One-member households are projected to increase sharply over the next few decades as rapid demographic changes speed up a trend toward smaller family units, a government report showed Thursday. Households consisting of a single member will reach 8.1 million in 2045, accounting for 36.3 percent of the total families [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of every four South Korean adults have experienced an addiction or other form of mental health issue at least one time in their lives, a government survey showed Wednesday. The survey showed that 25.4 percent of South Koreans are likely to cope with a mental disorder at [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Researchers said Wednesday they have found that lactic acid bacteria in kimchi, a traditional Korean fermented vegetable dish, is potentially effective in treating atopic dermatitis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease. The team, led by Choi Hak-jong, a senior researcher at the government-funded World Institute of Kimchi, said it has [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is set to release a set of support measures, including nurturing talented manpower, to help local pharmaceutical companies make further inroads into the global market, the country’s health minister said Tuesday. The remarks were made during a meeting attended by Health Minister Chung Chin-yeob, and executives of [...]
INCHEON, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean doctor has received a jail term for committing professional negligence resulting in the death of a German woman’s baby during birth here about two and a half years ago, a local court said Tuesday. The Incheon District Court said a 42-year-old female obstetrician was sentenced to [...]