DAEJEON, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Forest Service has announced a plan to create ‘City Forests’ in 559 locations all over the nation. A budget of 113.1 billion won has been allocated to the project. According to the Korea Forest Service, average temperatures in the seven big Korean cities, including Seoul, Busan, Daegu and Incheon [...]
“The on-site visit is expected to defuse public worries by having firsthand verification on whether actions have been taken properly on the concerned facility and those who have been exposed in accordance with the safety guidelines at home and abroad throughout the first shipment and to the disposal.” – South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense SEOUL, [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Bibimbap Backpackers, which promotes healthy eating through bibimbap, was cited by the US Department of Health and Human Services for its achievement, and selected as a campaign branch by the Let’s Move campaign initiated by US First Lady Michelle Obama. The group announced that it received the citation from the [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Buffalo-weed, which disturbs Korea’s native ecology, will be utilized as a plant resource as it contains plentiful antioxidants. The Gyeoggi Provincial Forest Environment Institute announced that it is researching application methods to use buffalo-weed as a plant resource, as it contains abundant polyphenols. Polyphenols, with excellent antioxidative activity removing [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Dutch scientists have discovered the reason why red meat increases the possibilities of colorectal cancer. The pigment in the meat should be blamed for colon cancer, they argued. The research team from the University of Utrecht recently announced that it had discovered the mechanism explaining why red meat causes colon cancer. [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Smile therapy turned out to boost the self esteem of cancer patients, and make them feel better. The research team at the cancer center of Seoul Asan hospital measured the effects of smile therapy on cancer patients who are going through chemo. They reported that a decrease in negative conditions [...]
SEJONG, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The last suspected patient of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea was released from isolation Monday as the country reported no additional cases of the disease for more than three weeks, the government said. The number of people diagnosed with the disease remained flat at 186 for the [...]
Seoul, July 24 (Korea Bizwire)– Unlikely combinations that mix fruit flavors with soju, chips, coffee and even chicken are continuously being launched. Fruit flavors seem to be dominating the food business, where honey butter flavors were the leading trend until early this year. According food industry watchers, Haitai, who created the honey butter craze, recently launched a [...]
Seoul, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Women who experience blackouts after drinking have a higher tendency to think about suicide. Professor Park Eun-chul and his team of preventive medicine at Yonsei University analyzed material from the National Nutrition Survey, conducted from 2007 to 2011 on 42,347 adults. They compared drinking frequency and quantity etc., and [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean medical researchers have developed a new way to treat cancers by leveraging “intravital glowing” like corals or fireflies. Sun Medical Center in Daejeon announced on July 22 that a research team led by Yun Seok-hyun, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and its hemato-oncology doctor Kim Yi-rang succeeded [...]