SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of deaths in South Korea hit an all-time high last year due largely to rapid aging and the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Tuesday. A total of 317,680 people died in the country last year, up 12,732 people, or 4.2 percent, from the previous year, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s suicide death rate dropped steadily for over 2013 to 2017, government data showed Sunday. The data compiled by the health ministry and Korea Foundation for Suicide Prevention showed that 22.8 out of 100,000 South Koreans took their own lives in 2017, dropping from 24.4 in 2016. The [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Men in managerial and specialized jobs in South Korea and Japan have a higher mortality rate than in Europe, a study found. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo and Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands published the study in the online edition of the Journal of [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Cancer remained the leading cause of death in South Korea in 2017, with heart-related illness second, government data showed Wednesday. A total of 285,534 South Koreans died in 2017, up 1.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from Statistics Korea. This is the largest death toll [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Cancer remained the leading cause of death in South Korea in 2016, and fatalities from dementia doubled from a decade ago in line with the rapidly aging population, government data showed Friday. A total of 280,827 South Koreans died in 2016, up 1.8 percent from a year earlier, according [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Research shows that with the daily temperature range of Asian countries standing around 10 degrees Celsius, the death rate has increased by a factor of 2.6. A research team led by Professor Kim Ho from the Graduate School of Public Health at Seoul National University analyzed data on deaths between [...]