SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean men have become more obese over the past 13 years due to drinking and lack of exercise, a government report showed Friday. The percentage of males aged 19 and over who have body mass indexes (BMIs) of 25 kilograms per square meter or over reached 44.8 percent [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of obese people in South Korea more than doubled between 2017 and 2021, a trend exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Thursday. According to the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, the number of overweight patients increased from 14,966 in 2017 to 31,170 last year. The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Korean men in their 30s and 40s are obese, with the prevalence rate of obesity surging for men last year, a government report showed Tuesday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) revealed the results of the 2020 national health and nutrition survey [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of every 6 South Korean adults are suspected to suffer from sleep apnea, a sleep disorder that can cause various diseases, a study showed Monday. The study showed that 15.8 percent of the 2,740 adults surveyed said they experience the disorder, which is characterized by pauses in [...]
SEJONG, Jun. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A third of South Korean people are obese, causing Asia’s fourth-largest economy to shoulder nearly 7 trillion won (US$6.12 billion) in social costs every year, the government said Wednesday. Also, some 25 percent of boys aged between 5 and 14 in South Korea suffer from obesity, compared with an [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of internal medicine experts from Kangbuk Samsung Hospital announced Thursday the results of a recent study, which revealed that being underweight poses a greater risk of death than being overweight or obese, contradicting the common consensus that often suggests otherwise. The study was based on health check-up [...]
SEJONG, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) - Nearly half of South Korean men in their 30s are obese, while women have longer legs nowadays compared with 10 years ago, a nationwide survey showed Monday. According to the survey on 6,413 people conducted last year by the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS), some 52 percent of those [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Roughly a third of adult South Koreans were overweight in 2014, with many not even trying to lose weight, government data showed Monday. The 2014 national health data by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) showed 31.5 percent of people over 19 were categorized as being [...]
SEOUL, Dec.1 (Korea Bizwire) – It turns out that four out of ten Seoul citizens tend to think they are obese, and one out of four are actually obese. According to an infographic released by The Seoul Institute, the city’s official think tank, 23.9 percent of citizens had a higher BMI (body mass index) than [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Research shows that children of obese parents have a higher possibility of becoming obese themselves. Parental lifestyle seems to influence children, leading them to obesity. Professor Kim Dae-joong of the Ajou University Hospital (Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism) reported that the risk of child obesity jumps 2.8 times when [...]