SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Survey data reveals that office workers are stressed because of English, even if they are not required to use the language frequently. Hunet, an education company, conducted a survey on 713 office workers. The results showed that 86.1 percent of the respondents were stressed because of English, with only [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean red ginseng, a medicinal plant known here as “hongsam,” has been found to be effective in fighting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections, a South Korean research team said Thursday, citing a local patient surviving solely on red ginseng for about 30 years. The patient was diagnosed as HIV positive [...]
SEJONG, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is on the threshold of becoming an aged society, with the share of senior citizens aged 65 or older in the nation’s population topping 13 percent last year, data showed Wednesday. According to the data by Statistics Korea, 13.1 percent of South Korea’s 50.62 million population were [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Food companies have started to cut down the sugar levels in their products to match consumer awareness of the substance blamed for rising obesity, industry officials said Wednesday, in step with government moves to reduce its intake through state-level measures. According to LinkAztec, a market research company, the business-to-consumer (B2C) [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government is taking action to encourage citizens to reduce their sugar intake, amidst concerns that the spread of obesity is becoming a global issue. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced that it will be establishing strategies to reduce the amount of sugar that Koreans consume. [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean medical research team has discovered a correlation between menstrual irregularity and periodontal disease. Research has been conducted to define the relationship between menstrual irregularity and systemic diseases such as diabetes, breast cancer and heart diseases, but the new Korean study marks the first time that a correlation with [...]
SEJONG, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) - Nearly half of South Korean men in their 30s are obese, while women have longer legs nowadays compared with 10 years ago, a nationwide survey showed Monday. According to the survey on 6,413 people conducted last year by the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS), some 52 percent of those [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Song Soo-hyun, 39, recently spent 3.5 million won (US$2,900) to have her eggs frozen at a local fertility center so she could still give birth some day in the future when she finds Mr. Right. “Next year, I hit my forties. I chose to freeze my eggs because I [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A government survey confirmed Wednesday many one-person households here have abnormal eating habits and are vulnerable to malnutrition. One in three people living alone skip breakfast, according to the Korea Rural Economic Institute, a state-funded think tank. It conducted a survey of 500 single-person households and the same number [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Drinking three cups of coffee with no sugar or cream added per day may help prevent diabetes, South Korean experts said Sunday, providing a tip to the increasing number of patients in the country. Based on a research conducted on 3,497 potential patients of diabetes, a team of doctors at [...]