SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Almost half of South Korean men are suffering from hair loss due mainly to stress with some of them willing to give up drinking or sex to get healthy hair, a poll showed Thursday. According to the survey of 801 Korean men ages 25 to 45 taken by Nielsen [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Good news for those experiencing hair loss. A team of Korean scientists successfully developed an automatic hair transplant machine that is set for commercialization in 2017. According to ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) and Kyungpook National University Hospital, the technology allows for the consecutive transplant of 25 hair [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (KSHRS) announced Monday that it has developed hair transplantation surgery guidelines specific to patients of East Asian heritage, including Koreans. According to the KSHRS, global guidelines were often based on Western research, suggesting that operating procedures may not be best suited for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s continued use of oriental medicine has been a controversial subject for quite some time, particularly with certain western, or modern, medical science communities discrediting their traditional medical counterparts over the reliability of their treatments. The debate became heated again after a 27-month-old suffered complete hair loss, including eyebrows, supposedly [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s market for hair-loss-related products, including wigs, is currently estimated at 3 trillion won (US$2.47 billion), industry sources said Wednesday, with the figure set to increase down the road as more people in the country get stressed. The number of people suffering from hair loss is estimated at 10 [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Young Koreans in their twenties and thirties are increasingly losing their hair, leading to a boom in the Korean hair-loss industry. Hi-MO, Korea’s largest wig company, said on May 13 that 27 percent and 4 percent of its male customers in 2014 were in their thirties and twenties respectively. [...]
“My son is destined to be a great painter like Picasso, My husband is such a generous person that he always treats his friends big time, My mother-in-law must be feeling so comfortable with me that she visits us so often without even calling ahead.” SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 03 (Korea Bizwire) – Your boy [...]