SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s science ministry said Tuesday that it will launch a pilot program using roaming data provided by mobile carriers to monitor and further prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Under the program, the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) will provide information about virus outbreaks in [...]
YANGPYEONG, South Korea, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Forest Service gave foreign reporters Friday a familiarization tour of Yangpyeong’s Saneum Healing Forest. Located within the Saneum National Recreational Forest, Saneum Healing Forest was established in 2009 as Korea’s first healing forest, offering various nature-driven therapy programs. The forest is comprised of several mountain [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The grand prize (Presidential Award) at the 2016 University Competition for Original Inventions went to a team from Cheongju University for their “bi-directional wheelchair”. The idea is to remove the inconvenience of conventional wheelchairs that only allowed patients to sit in a single direction, which made it uncomfortable or [...]
CHEONGJU, South Korea, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – “Mass depression” is the term experts are now using to describe the failing confidence, soaring rage and disappointment that Koreans feel amid the country’s somber state of affairs. “I hardly believed the Choi Soon-sil scandal when it first hit the airwaves,” said 69-year-old Park (full name undisclosed), [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A sphygmomanometer is a quick and convenient way of measuring blood pressure. But it tends to lack accuracy when compared to measurements made by a doctor with a blood pressure pump and a stethoscope. To overcome these limits, a team of Korean scientists from Hanyang University applied deep learning [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Corporate feud over the source of a toxin strain used in Botox injections has raised safety concerns among consumers, who lay the blame on the state drug safety agency for standing akimbo even when the controversy is growing. Officials at the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety reaffirmed Tuesday [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of South Korean scientists has developed a nano-robot capable of effectively seeking out and destroying cancer cells, the science ministry said Tuesday. The team led by Park Jae-hyung of Sungkyunkwan University developed the nanobot that uses photodynamic therapy to effectively kill cancer cells while inflicting minimal damage [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Everyone should know that best way to stay fit is a healthy, balanced diet and regular exercise, so it’s no surprise that medical experts are critical of the Korean frenzy over the high-fat low-carb diet. The diet’s popularity has skyrocketed since MBC’s TV program The False Charges on Fat [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of South Korean medical scientists has discovered a new protein that is related to causing lung cancer, the science ministry said Wednesday. The team led by Lee Chang-hwan of the University of Ulsan College of Medicine discovered that the protein called USE1 was more frequently found in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean doctors warned Wednesday of the risks of a high-fat and carbohydrate-restricted diet, which recently caught on among some weight-conscious locals, saying not only is it ineffective in the long term but it is also unhealthy. “The diet is not effective in losing weight in the long term [...]