SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A worker who was scheduled to be dispatched on an overseas project gave up the position due to his poor English ability. However, the extreme stress caused by his English incompetence finally led to his suicide, and a lawsuit from his wife requesting that the death be viewed as [...]
LEXINGTON, Mass., April 16, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey conducted by Ipswitch of more than 100 IT professionals highlighted the frustration felt with manual file transfer processes. Sixty one percent of respondents reported that manual file transfer was as enjoyable as sitting in traffic when asked to relate it to activities generally seen as [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study showed that college graduates or college-enrolled job seekers suffer most from “hypersensitivity” among many symptoms of stress. Hypersensitivity is a symptom of stress which makes the sufferer to overreact to even tenuous stimulation due to destabilization of the nerve system. Korea’s online job search portal “Job Korea” [...]
LANSING, Mich., Mar 27, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) –Cyclists who drank Montmorency tart cherry juice concentrate before a three-day simulated race experienced less inflammation and oxidative stress compared to those who drank another beverage, according to a new U.K. study published in the journal Nutrients. A research team led by Dr. Glyn Howatson with PhD student [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 4 (Korea Bizwire) – While patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) keep increasing in Korea, one of the two patients are in their 20s and 30s, according to the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA). HIRA announced that the number of patients diagnosed as OCD marked 23,846 last year, up 13.1 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Ahead of beginning a new semester in March, many parents are busy preparing for their kids’ entering school such as school bags, uniforms and stationeries. Still it’s not enough, of course, especially when their kids become first graders of elementary schools. This year, as many as 480,000 kids who [...]
Seoul, S. Korea, August 02 (Korea Biz Wire) — Though most people use various Social Networking Services (SNS) from Facebook to Kakao Talk, 6 out of 10 college students are tired of SNS. ‘Albamon’ (www.albamon.com), a website run by ‘JobKorea’ specifically for part-time jobs, conducted a survey on SNS by asking 569 students several questions and [...]