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 [...]
Seoul, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The design of seats reserved for expecting mothers in the trains of Seoul Metro will be renewed, so that they stand out more. Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that they would renew the design of the ‘seats for expecting mothers’, so that subway passengers could yield their seats to pregnant women. The [...]
Seoul, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – How do female golfers blow off steam when they have matches every week? At a press conference held by the Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) Hite-Jinro Championship at the Westin Chosun Hotel, golfers created a light atmosphere as they talked about how they release stress. First, Jeon In-ji (21, [...]
Seoul, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey has reported that 8 out of 10 Korean adults say they have had a headache during the past month. When itemized by day, the majority of respondents answered that they experienced a headache on Monday. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson Korea [...]
Seoul, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The sales of ‘Healing hobby items’ of analog sensibility are increasing in the current digitally flooded society. AK Mall (www.akmall.com), an online shopping site, notes that sales of fountain pens, calligraphy pens, colored pencils, colored paper, connect-the-dots and coloring books have showed drastic growth compared to the same period last [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – As cases of missing dementia patients increase, the Korean government is teaming up with police services and a mobile carrier to develop a location position system to easily track down lost patients. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning signed an MoU with SK Telecom, Jeonnam Provincial Police Agency [...]
CHEONGJU, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A public servant in Cheongju has donated the money he saved from quitting smoking 10 years ago. He has been saving 3,000 won every day as his “cigarette price” for the past 10 years. Byeon Chang-soo, 56, who works at the city-run Cheongju Land, made a donation of 5 million [...]
Seoul, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a recent investigation, Korean adults take in more calories on Saturday than any other day of the week. ‘Differences in Nutritional Intake’, a report issued by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shared the results from a survey of 12,308 people from 2009 to 2013. [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – American health experts argue that the prices of tobacco in Korea are still cheap compared to Koreans’ income levels. Jonathan Samet, director of the Global Health Research Institute at the University of Southern California, said, “I know that the Korean government raised tobacco prices by 2,000 won this year. [...]
Seoul, July 16 (Korea Bizwire)-With an increase in the number of consumers who want to drink wine as casually as beer, the consumption of micro-dosage wine has risen rapidly. According to analysts, during the first half of this year, sales of 330㎖’mini wine’ bottles at Emart increased by 340.8 percent compared to the same period [...]