SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Drug offenders in their teens to 30s grew sharply in the past three years to represent 58.9 percent of those convicted of drug crimes last year, the chief of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said Monday. The number of young drug offenders in those age brackets stood at 1,566 [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the past several years, cholesterol levels in South Korean children and teenagers have surged, with about one third suffering from dyslipidemia. A joint research team from the Gangnam Severance Hospital and the Yongin Severance Hospital analyzed cholesterol levels for 8,731 teenagers between the ages of 10 and 18, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 95 percent of South Korean teenagers own smartphones and they spend more than 2 hours on the devices per day, a report showed Sunday, According to the report from the state-run Korea Information Society Development Institute, the smartphone penetration rate for middle-school students stood at 95.9 percent [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The national baseball community is reeling from a recent arrest of a former professional player for allegedly giving steroids and other banned substances to young students at his private academy. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said Tuesday the ex-Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) player, surnamed Lee, was detained [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Job portal Alba (www.alba.co.kr) announced the results of a survey of 1,648 young people in their teens and 20s on self-esteem. The portal targets a mostly younger population seeking part-time jobs. According to the survey, nearly half of the respondents (47.9 percent) said that they had “low” or “very [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Yuhan-Kimberly, in response to the controversy around its plan to increase the price of sanitary pads, will be releasing a lower-priced sanitary pad product for low-income teens and females. The company revealed on June 3 that it will develop and release sanitary pads that maintain the company’s fundamental quality but [...]
SEOUL, Dec.31 (Korea Bizwire) – A survey revealed that more than half of high school students answered in a survey conducted, that if they were to receive 1 billion won, they would be willing to commit crimes. Half of the high school students surveyed were selfishly thinking that their lives are the only lives that [...]
SEJONG, Sept.17 (Korea Bizwire) – Research suggests that the younger the children are, the more environmental pollutants such as heavy metals are concentrated in their bodies. A study was conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Research over the past three years (from 2012 to 2014), on 2,397 children and youth aged between three and 18. [...]