SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to set up a body to address the World Health Organization’s decision to classify excessive gaming as an illness, while balancing the interests of the country’s high-profile gaming sector and growing concerns over gaming addiction, the government said Monday. The WHO last week defined problems caused [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — As the thermometer inches up every day, medical experts say elderly farmers in the countryside should be more alert and careful. According to statistics published domestically, 74.2 percent of heat-related illnesses in people over the age of 65 occurred outdoors in the field or on the road. The supporting [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The fifth case of Zika virus infection in South Korea has been found in a man in his 30s who recently came back from a business trip to the Philippines, local health authorities said Wednesday. The 39-year-old man, whose identity was withheld, visited Batangas, some 100 kilometers south of Manila, [...]
SEOUL, Dec.4 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has shown that married couples who spend their whole lives together have similar health risks. There was a two to three times higher chance that a wife would be at risk for cardiovascular disorders when her husband was also at risk for the same type of illness. [...]