SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign patients receiving plastic surgery in South Korea has shot up 13-fold since 2010 thanks to Chinese tourists, a report showed Thursday. The number of foreigners visiting cosmetic clinics operating in South Korea reached 36,224 last year, up from 2,851 tallied in 2009, according to the [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans rank first among the citizens of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries in terms of visits to hospitals per year, data showed Tuesday. According to the Health Data 2015 provided by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the OECD, South Koreans visited the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – When the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome swept Korea earlier this year, Samsung Medical Center was at the center of the epidemic, not as a healing center for the deadly disease, but as the source of the outbreak. Among the 186 patients who contracted MERS, almost half (91) were infected at the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – As Koreans’ concerns about the risks caused by asbestos increase, a local government in Korea plans to invest tens of billion of won in public funds to remove slate roofs full of the hazardous material. On August 31, the North Gyeongsang Provincial Government announced that it would invest 90 billion won [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has the highest suicide rate among the members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and its people were less confident about their health, a report showed Sunday. An average of 29.1 people per 100,000 in South Korea took their own lives in 2012, far surpassing the [...]
GOESAN, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A number of world-renowned scholars have been invited to an international organic food expo set to take place in Goesan next month, organizers said Thursday. The 2015 Goesan International Organic Expo, which will kick off Sept. 18 in the mountainous agricultural town in North Chungcheong Province under the theme [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – We should all take care of our health when we are young. However, Korean men in their 30s and 40s make little effort to protect their health according to a recent survey. In the meantime, many in their 60s practice healthy lifestyles with lower smoking rates, low-risk drinking, and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Among the members of the OECD, the lifespan of Korean men is shorter compared to Korean women, as well as men of other countries. The main factors that contributed to lower life expectancies for Korean men were the high smoking rate and stress levels. It is a well known fact [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Tempur Korea has commented that their rapid success in Korea is due to the high number of locals longing for a good night’s sleep. Ju Jong-gyu, the head of Tempur Korea, explained the new interest Koreans have on quality sleep. “Usually, people have a tendency to seek good quality sleep [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean man is showing suspected symptoms of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) following a recent trip to the United Arab Emirates, health authorities said Friday. The 38-year-old man was moved to a hospital in Dongducheon, just north of Seoul, earlier in the day, as he had showed possible [...]