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SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to create a national medical data-sharing platform modeled after the Mayo Clinic system in the United States, aiming to overcome long-standing privacy barriers that have slowed the use of artificial intelligence in health care. The Ministry of Science and ICT said Wednesday that it will launch a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea now has the highest employment rate among seniors in the OECD, a trend driven less by choice than by economic hardship as the country enters an era of rapid population aging. A report released Wednesday by Oh Yoo-jin, a researcher at the National Pension Research Institute, shows that [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Koreans continue to believe that antibiotics help cure the common cold, even though decades of scientific research show they offer virtually no benefit and can increase harmful side effects, according to a new government survey released this month. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean writer of the Tony Award-winning “Maybe Happy Ending” stressed that it is human values, not flawless systems, that keep people truly human amid rapid technological innovation driven by artificial intelligence (AI), the foreign ministry said Tuesday. Park Chun-hue, lyricist of the six Tonys-winning musical, made the remark [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The original soundtrack for Netflix’s hit animated film “KPop Demon Hunters” has maintained its position within the top 10 on the U.S. Billboard charts. Billboard said Monday (U.S. time) that the film’s track “Golden” remained at No. 2 on the Hot 100 singles chart for a second week, while [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is preparing to sharply loosen restrictions on who may enroll in clinical trials for new cancer drugs, a shift that could give patients earlier access to promising therapies and reshape long-standing practices in oncology care. For years, many cancer patients and their families have confronted a painful paradox: [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will gain new regional air links to the United Arab Emirates under a fresh aviation agreement reached on the sidelines of an international transport conference, the government said Sunday, marking a significant expansion of routes between the two countries. At the International Civil Aviation Organization’s Air Services Negotiation [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Parents raising twins in South Korea face significantly heavier childcare burdens than those raising a single child, with nearly 40 percent reporting they have no one to turn to during emergencies, according to a new survey released Sunday. The Korea Population, Health and Welfare Association (KoPHWA) surveyed 718 parents of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans can now access detailed, government-verified statistics about specific diseases directly through Naver, the country’s dominant search engine, under a new public service launched Sunday. The National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) said it partnered with Naver to make health-care utilization data easily available to the public. When users search [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading game publishers are gearing up for next month’s Animation X Game Festival (AGF) with an unusually strong slate of anime-style titles, signaling the genre’s expanding influence across the domestic industry. According to the gaming sector on Monday, major companies including Neowiz, Nexon, Netmarble, Smilegate, NCSoft, and NHN [...]