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. [...]