SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) –- At the height of their high-profile K-pop careers last year, Kang Daniel and Mina, a member of sensational girl group TWICE, temporarily left show business, complaining of anxiety and other mental disorders. The Japanese K-pop star, Mina was suffering from an anxiety disorder and suspended her stage career amid [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop star Kang Daniel put his music and entertainment career on hold due to depression and a panic disorder, his management agency said Wednesday. The 23-year-old solo artist and former member of disbanded boy group Wanna One will have a hiatus from show business after being diagnosed with the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Recently released data shows that more than 3.5 million South Koreans have been treated for anxiety disorder over the past five years. Rep. Jang Jeong-sook reported that there were 3.4 million people who received medical treatment for anxiety disorder between 2014 and August 2019. The annual number of patients [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean speed skater Kim Bo-reum, who won silver in the women’s mass start at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, has been hospitalized for psychological treatment, along with her mother, the athlete’s agency said Wednesday. Bravo and New said Kim visited a hospital in her hometown of Daegu on Monday, and a doctor [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The term ‘anxiety disorder’ refers to a mental disorder which interferes with daily life due to abnormal and pathological anxiety and fear. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s 2016 Mental Illness Epidemiological Survey, the lifetime prevalence rate of anxiety disorders among South Koreans was 9.3 percent, which [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of patients diagnose with panic disorder is steadily increasing in South Korea, government data showed Saturday, with experts citing growing social and psychological stress as possible causes. The Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service said that a total of 127,053 people received hospital treatment for panic disorder in 2016, up from 98,000 in 2014 and 83,000 in 2012. Doctors define panic disorder as an anxiety disorder with recurrent, unexpected [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent scientific study has reported that intestinal bacteria may be the key to treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). On May 2, Dr. Paul Forsythe from the Brain-Body Institute at McMaster University in Canada announced through Medical News Today that the configuration of an individual’s microbiome, the aggregate of [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Among elderly people in Korea, lots of them are developing anxiety disorder making their lives harder due to severe uneasiness and fear for the future. Also, seven out of ten aged people are not doing any special leisure activities, a survey said. According to medical statistics from the National Health [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 4 (Korea Bizwire) – While patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) keep increasing in Korea, one of the two patients are in their 20s and 30s, according to the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA). HIRA announced that the number of patients diagnosed as OCD marked 23,846 last year, up 13.1 [...]