CHEONGJU, South Korea, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – “Mass depression” is the term experts are now using to describe the failing confidence, soaring rage and disappointment that Koreans feel amid the country’s somber state of affairs. “I hardly believed the Choi Soon-sil scandal when it first hit the airwaves,” said 69-year-old Park (full name undisclosed), [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – One out of 10 senior citizens have had thoughts about attempting suicide in the past year, a survey showed Tuesday. According to the survey conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) on 853 people aged over 65, 10.3 percent said they have felt an impulse [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Adding to heightened concerns in Korea over the increasing prevalence of fine dust in the atmosphere, a recent doctoral dissertation by a PhD student at Seoul National University (SNU) substantiated the repercussions of exposure to ultrafine particles on mental health. According to SNU, medical college student Kim Kyoung-nam revealed in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphones provide us with unparalleled convenience and endless possibilities, but they sometimes also pose threats. In a recent study by a mental health science team from Korea University’s Anam Hospital, it was revealed that exposing oneself to bright artificial lights (i.e. from smartphones) can break one’s circadian rhythm, and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea is experiencing a rising number of patients with the four major neurologic disorders— stroke, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and epilepsy—while also suffering from depression. However, medical experts gathered Monday claimed that the current law, which prohibits prescription of antidepressants by non-mental health specialists for more than 60 days, is exerting [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – With industrialization, technological advancement, and diverse cultural content infiltrating our everyday lives, our ears are exposed to a constant onslaught of noise and sounds. But despite the little attention most people pay to the health of their ears, experts claim that potential health implications are high, and that hearing [...]
ASAN, South Korea, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean work culture has long been recognized for its intensity and strict hierarchical approach. But a recent survey by the city of Asan in North Chungcheong Province found that the level of depression among office workers is higher than what most had expected. After a month-long study [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Association of Korean Medicine (AKOM), which dropped the word “oriental” from its English name several years ago to supposedly reduce Western cultural prejudices, is clashing with the Korean Medical Association (KMA), again, over the launch of a pilot project promoting traditional Korean medical treatment as an alternative for elderly dementia [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Due to long working hours and an increase in the number of single-person households, sharing dinner as a family is becoming less frequent. A recent study has shown that a man who has dinner alone is 2.4 times more likely to suffer from depression than a person who eats dinner [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Severe depression can sometimes drive a person to make one of the most extreme decisions: committing suicide. And until now, medical science was not able to provide a clear reason for such behavior despite high interest in the relationship between depression and suicide. On Tuesday, a team of scientists [...]