SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Health authorities said early Tuesday that three of the four newborns who died successively in an intensive care unit last week may have been infected with an antibiotics-resistant virus. The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDCP) revealed its interim result on the preliminary blood culture tests of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Forensic doctors were to conduct an autopsy Monday morning on the bodies of four newborn babies to determine what caused them to die successively in an 81-minute period over the weekend. The prematurely born babies were in incubators at the intensive care unit for newborns at Ewha Womans University [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Individuals with a more positive outlook on death are more likely to have better mental health than those who dread the end of life, according to a new survey by a medical team at Seoul National University Hospital. A research team led by professor Yun Young-ho at Seoul National University [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans’ medical expenditures spent a year before death jumped more than threefold over the past decade, data showed Sunday, reflecting the rising need to beef up the country’s hospice facilities and services. According to the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), South Koreans aged 40 and above on average [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – An international ceramic biennale, which is to open this weekend in three cities in Gyeonggi Province, will put unlikely items together — ceramic art and death. The 9th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale (GICB), “Narrative, Ode to Life,” will open this Saturday in Gwangju, Icheon and Yeoju — the three [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – What if you only had 48 hours to live? What would you do and who would you spend those last hours with? On the new reality show “My Last 48 Hours,” three celebrities in their 20s to 50s reveal what they would do. From eating their favorite food to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has offered “profound” condolences over the death of his key aide who handled inter-Korean affairs, Pyongyang’s state media said Thursday. On Wednesday, Kim visited the mortuary of Kim Yang-gon, a secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, who died on Tuesday in a [...]