SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 6,400 trainee doctors have submitted their resignations in protest of the government’s plan to boost the number of medical students, officials said Tuesday, as worries mount that their collective action could put public health at risk. Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo told reporters that the ministry [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A United Nations official positively evaluated South Korea’s transparent use of personal information for the purpose of tracing coronavirus infections as an exemplar in the global fight against the pandemic, a document showed Thursday. David Kaye, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on freedom of expression, described the country’s approach as [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Tae-kyung, a 37-year-old office worker who has been smoking for 15 years, recently switched to an e-cigarette that heats tobacco without burning. “This is said to be less harmful than traditional cigarettes,” Lee said, as he took a puff on his pen-shaped contraption at a designated smoking zone [...]