SEOUL, Korea, Sep 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The government announced a plan to set nationally adopted standards for physical strength and fitness and encourage companies to use them for hiring and promotion. The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism said on September 2 that it has unveiled a new “People’s Physical Fitness 100″ certification program. [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 04 (Korea Bizwire) – The city government of Seoul will begin a unique scheme to monitor the quality of “Arisu,” tap water supplied to Seoul citizens, through “water sommeliers” all across the city. Already in July, the city government hired 32 sommeliers who will be responsible for supervising the taste and smell of [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has indicated that more than 650 people will die annually due to summer heat waves in Seoul alone, and the social cost will reach more than 110 billion won each year in the upcoming future. This estimate was reached by analyzing data gathered from the [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Online trading of agricultural goods has established itself as an important channel for these products. The ‘Online Direct Transaction Market for Farm Produce (www.eat.co.kr)’ operated by the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation has grown rapidly in only three years since opening, with approximately 1 trillion won in agricultural [...]
GAPYEONG, South Korea, Aug 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The CheongShim International Medical Center, Korea’s first international medical center and an internationally renowned hospital for both domestic and foreign patients, is drawing interest for its special medical vacation program for Japanese patients. Designated as an international hospital in 2006, CSMC offers a unique internationalized medical vacation service, [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Aug 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Rural Development Administration announced that it has developed a technology called “Virtual Screening” that allows animal pathologists to predict the mechanism and effectiveness of specific target proteins in domesticated animals’ immune system and physiology. The virtual screening technology is based on a premise that molecules with similar [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Aug 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The state-run Rural Development Administration has developed an agricultural technology of eliminating bad odor coming from food waste. A team of researchers at RDA came up with the new technology by combining pine cone leftover after pine nuts are extracted with bacillus, a type of microorganism cultured from [...]
Cheongwon, Korea, August 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation (NIFDS) at the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) announced the release of the ‘Guidebook on the comparison of different responses to drugs for different races/people for the development of personalized medication.’ The guidebook was prepared to provide the public [...]
SEOUL, Korea, August 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government took its first step to provide treatment to firefighters suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. A total of 69 firefighters have participated in the ‘Open-air Healing Program’ at Yangpyeong in Kyunggi Province from July 25 to August 7. They have joined a program composed of several parts; [...]
SEOUL, Korea, August 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Community Rehabilitation Center announced that it will hold a training session for ‘Water Dance,’ a type of underwater exercise for the first time in Korea at the center. The center, established in 1997, is Korea’s first specialized institution for underwater rehabilitation and offers various services and programs for [...]