SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Children are feeling less satisfied and are struggling more with anxiety and depression following the coronavirus outbreak. ChildFund Korea conducted a two-month study of 1,825 children and teenagers in October of last year, which showed that levels of life satisfaction among children and teens fell from 7.27 points out [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Newlywed couples who have owned a home since getting married had a greater chance of having children than newly married couples without homes, data showed Sunday, indicating that owning houses may affect childbirths. Of 212,000 first-time and newly married couples who tied the knot in 2014 and maintained their [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Most divorced Vietnamese immigrant women in South Korea bring back their children whom they sent to their home country after divorce once they achieve economic self-reliance, an analysis of data showed Tuesday. Choi Soo-ahn, a doctorate student in the Department of Multicultural Studies & Education at Inha University, said [...]
SEJONG, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The children being raised by a single parent lag behind in the capability of managing learning hours but have a high level of concentration, a state-run think tank said Tuesday. The ratio of single-parent households rose to 19.9 percent in 2018 from 15.9 percent in 2010, according to a [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — With school attendance halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, obesity-related indexes such as the body mass index (BMI) for children and teenagers have worsened, a recent study found. A research team from the Samsung Medical Center conducted a study of 90 obesity patients in childhood and adolescence from 6 [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s drug safety agency has taken the initiative to launch ‘intelligence informatization consulting’ through a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and a management system as part of efforts to strengthen the safety management at food service areas used by children, including those at kindergartens. To manage the [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — There are still false beliefs rampant in corners of Korean society that disabilities can be passed down. A recent online post mocking a disabled couple for giving birth to a child sparked massive controversy. The post, titled ‘why disabled people give birth’, questioned the disabled person’s ‘motives for passing [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Researchers from Seoul National University Hospital said Tuesday that they had developed a program that offers computer game-based cognitive behavioral therapy to children struggling with depression. This program consists of a series of training exercises including ones dedicated to overcoming depression, making friends, and promoting learning capacity, held twice [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — As online classes are scheduled for this year’s academic calendar, parents are increasingly concerned over their children’s addiction to YouTube. What begins with a YouTube link shared by school teachers on an online education platforms ends with children not knowing when to stop watching videos, parents claim. Choi, a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Remote schooling at home following the coronavirus outbreak is resulting in the spread of obesity among children. A research team from the College of Medicine of the Catholic University of Korea measured the body mass index (BMI) of 226 children between 4 and 14 years of age. While it [...]