SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Low-income women and high-income men in South Korea are more likely to be obese, a report showed Tuesday, showing the correlation between body size and income level. The report was released by a team of researchers of the Seoul National University based on 39.09 million people who received medical [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean women tend to consider themselves chubbier than they actually are while men are inclined to think the opposite, a survey showed Thursday. About 20 percent, or 5,002 women, of the 25,281 women polled said they are overweight, although they actually have normal body weight, according to the [...]
SEJONG, Jun. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A third of South Korean people are obese, causing Asia’s fourth-largest economy to shoulder nearly 7 trillion won (US$6.12 billion) in social costs every year, the government said Wednesday. Also, some 25 percent of boys aged between 5 and 14 in South Korea suffer from obesity, compared with an [...]
SEJONG, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) - Nearly half of South Korean men in their 30s are obese, while women have longer legs nowadays compared with 10 years ago, a nationwide survey showed Monday. According to the survey on 6,413 people conducted last year by the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS), some 52 percent of those [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – After analyzing cerebral infarction patients according to their body mass index (BMI), those who were overweight showed lighter symptoms and better recuperation. It is another example of the ‘Obesity Paradox’, meaning that the more obese you are, the longer you live. Professor Lee Seung-hun from the Department of Neurology at [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Young Korean women aged 19 to 24 are light-weighted with the false notion that a slimmer body looks more attractive. They are doing excessive diet, fasting meals more often with less physical activities, a survey said. According to the survey released from the Korea Institute for Health and Social [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean adults look slimmer than people of other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)member countries, but the child obesity rate in Korea is a cause for concern and turns out being above that of the OECD average. According to an OECD report released on July 14, among the Korean adults [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Year by year, fewer Koreans are regularly exercising and more Koreans become overweight. According to a health survey on some 22,000 adult men and women conducted by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 38.2 percent of respondents said they do regular exercises like walking more [...]