SEOUL, Apr. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of cases in which emergency responders drove ambulances to take people affected by respiratory ailments to hospitals rose to a five-year high in the first quarter of the year amid an onslaught of worsened air pollution, government data showed Wednesday. The data from the National Fire Agency [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Four in 10 South Korean women delivered their babies through cesarean sections, with the numbers going up with the age of the mother giving birth, data showed Monday. According to the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), 42.3 percent of mothers opted to use surgery to have [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed a significant discrepancy between husbands and wives in the amount of time spent doing housework. Wives typically spend more than three hours per day on weekday chores, but husbands only spend about 40 minutes, according to the survey. The Korea Institute for Health and [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that being overweight as well as losing weight can increase the risk of stroke. A research team led by Prof. Rhee Eun-jung and Prof. Lee Won-young at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital conducted a study on 11 million citizens who took the national health examinations between [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Poor air quality caused more than 17,000 deaths in South Korea in 2017, more than 90 percent of which resulted from the onslaught of harmful PM2.5 particles, a study released by a U.S. civic group showed Thursday. The “State of Global Air 2019″ report, published by the Health Effects [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven in 10 artists in South Korea earn less than 1 million won (US$880) a month, well below the average for all trades, a government report said Thursday. According to the report by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the average annual income of domestic artist households was [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has shown that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may show symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and are more vulnerable to substance abuse when they become adults. The Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (KACAP), commemorating the 4th ADHD Awareness Day on April [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — About 7 out 10 married women disagree with the traditional gender roles of breadwinning husbands and homemaker wives, although a majority of the women acknowledge that mothers are better at raising children, a survey said Thursday. A total of 10,630 married women aged 15 to 49 were polled for [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The daily amount of payments made electronically nearly doubled last year as a growing number of South Koreans are carrying out their financial transactions on smartphones, central bank data showed Wednesday. The daily average for electronic financial transactions came to a record 126.1 billion won (US$111.1 million) in 2018, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has argued that showing smartphones or televisions to a crying baby may delay the child’s ability to acquire a language. A research team led by Prof. Kim Sung-koo from Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital said that the comparison of two groups of children being exposed [...]