SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean women are increasingly buying weights and other muscle-building exercise equipment. According to a statement from online shopping mall G-Market on May 13, sales of such items among female customers between April 12 and May 11 increased threefold compared to the same period last year. Female purchases of weight training [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Four universities in Korea’s southwestern province of Jeolla, including Mokpo National University, Sunchon National University, the Yeosu Campus of Chonnam National University and Sehan University plan to make their campuses smoke-free According to South Jeolla Province, the four universities will sign an agreement with the province to make their campuses smoke-free. [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Two out of three Koreans diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) in 2013 are teenagers, according to a report by the National Health Insurance Service published on May 10. Among 58,121 who were diagnosed with ADHD in 2013, 65.9 percent (or 38,307) of them, were teenagers. Men were four [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Four survivors and families of Koreans whose mysterious deaths were allegedly caused by a personal humidifier sterilizer agent will visit the main headquarters of Reckitt Benckiser in the U.K from May 19 to 22. The association of the victims and the Asian Citizen’s Center for Environment and Health held [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Plasma, a blood product subsidiary of SK Chemical, has held a groundbreaking ceremony for a blood product plant at the Gyeongbuk Bio Industry Complex in Andong, according to a company statement on May 7. The 100 billion won (US$ 91.4 million) plant will be built on a 31,585㎡ [...]
INCHEON, Korea, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Incheon Metropolitan City plans to launch a “dementia partner” program in a bid to change negative perception related to the chronic disease. On May 5, the city government announced that it would recruit “dementia partners.” Anyone who is interested in the disease can join the program, and the [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The rate of colorectal cancer among Koreans is the highest in the world, especially among men, as 45 out of 10,000 Koreans are diagnosed with the disease, according to a report by Korea University’s Guro Hospital on April 30. The diagnosis rate among Koreans was much higher than the [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Popularity for low alcohol drinks is even affecting whiskey brands, which are launching low-alcohol whiskeys to respond to the new trend. According to a statement from industry representatives on April 26, in the first quarter, Lotte Liquor, which has ranked third for 19 years in terms of output levels, [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The most common form of cancer in Korea is thyroid cancer, not lung or stomach, increasing 15 fold in just 20 years. Up until last year, most patients received treatment to surgically removing tumors together with their thyroid glands, in a process known as a thyroidectomy. However, the number of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — An acupuncture technique to reduce facial wrinkles has proven to be effective following a clinical trial on 107 individuals. Doctor Joe Jin-Hyoung at Kwangdong Hospital of Traditional Korean Medicine said on April 21 that the hospital’s medical team conducted acupuncture treatments to reduce wrinkles around the eyes and mouth [...]