SEOUL, Jul. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean women tend to consider themselves chubbier than they actually are while men are inclined to think the opposite, a survey showed Thursday. About 20 percent, or 5,002 women, of the 25,281 women polled said they are overweight, although they actually have normal body weight, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has decided to extend its national insurance coverage to patients with obesity starting next year. The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) announced yesterday plans to invest 9 billion won to provide insurance coverage for the surgical treatment of [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s young women are increasingly becoming either overweight or underweight, while men are gaining in abdominal obesity, a medical report said Monday. The research results showed that among women in their 20s and 30s, prevalence for becoming underweight increased from 8.8 percent in 1998 to 14 percent in [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean children and adolescents are suffering from a high prevalence of severe obesity, which could sharply increase the risk of developing metabolic syndrome, a report said Tuesday. A survey of 19,593 South Koreans aged 2 to 19 showed that 2 to 3 in every 100 have severe obesity, [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s sales of sugar by retailers plunged nearly 40 percent in 2016 from three years earlier, data showed Saturday, amid local health authorities’ efforts to promote healthier eating. According to the data compiled by the Food Information Statistics System, the combined amount of sugars sold through retailers came [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) – What the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, learned from his forefathers is not just their autocratic means to control the public – he also inherited their plump physique that has often been subject of mockery outside the country’s isolated regime. A 1960 article by a South Korean [...]
JEJU, South Korea, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju Jungang Girls’ High School is one of the biggest high schools on the island with 1,400 students in 37 classes. The school has seen its obesity rate rise in recent years, with students spending more and more hours studying with little physical activity, accompanied by an [...]
SEJONG, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study suggests that the South Korean government’s anti-smoking policies may need to be supplemented by diet and weight loss programs to better control weight gain, which sometimes follows smoking cessation. Researcher Choi Seng-eun at the Korea Institute of Public Finance, in a report on the effects of [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A lack of sleep can increase the risk of obesity by 22 percent, according to new findings. A recent study from Seoul National University looked into the relationship between sleep patterns and obesity, and found that the less you sleep, the higher your body fat percentage is likely [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study by the Seoul Institute has revealed that Seoul’s three richest districts – Gangnam, Seocho, and Songpa – have lower female obesity rates than other neighborhoods in the capital. According to the study, the obesity rate for adult men residing in Seoul was 31.7 percent and for [...]