SEJONG, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of babies born to multicultural families out of all childbirths in South Korea reached an all-time high in 2019 due to the country’s low birthrate, government data showed Thursday. The number of babies born to multicultural married couples came to 17,939 last year, down 0.8 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A 37-year-old worker referred to only as Kim was asked to leave right after he brought his wife and new-born twins to rest at a postnatal care center. After the resurgence of COVID-19 in South Korea in recent days, the nation’s postnatal care centers shifted their policy towards banning [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — In the last five years, the vast majority of the babies abandoned in baby boxes were found to have been sent to so-called ‘protection facilities’. The Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea (BAI) reported on Tuesday that between 2014 and 2018, 929 baby orphans out of 962 (96.6 [...]
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 [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of newborn babies in South Korea dropped to a six-month low in June, government data showed Wednesday. About 28,900 babies were born in the month, down 12.2 percent, or 4,000, from 32,900 tallied a year earlier, according to the data from Statistics Korea. It is the second-lowest [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Cases of maternal filicide (the killing of a child by their own parent) have raised shock, outrage, and concern across the nation. A large number of the “murders” are open-and-shut cases in that the mothers voluntarily called the police and 119 (emergency services) after causing the deaths of their children. What [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean infants are prescribed antibiotics in much higher frequency than those in other countries, the latest research report said Thursday, confirming concerns in the medical community of serious misuse that could hurt the immune system. The results show South Korean toddlers on average are prescribed antibiotics 3.41 times [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has revealed that the rate of deformities in newborn babies in Korea is increasing. Approximately 5.5 babies per 100 are born with birth defects. Air pollution, endocrine-disruptors, and a lack of folic acid are believed to be the leading factors behind the increased prevalence of the [...]