SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is set to advocate for the reduction of smoking depictions in online video services such as YouTube and Netflix at the upcoming World Health Organization (WHO) conference. The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced its participation in the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) –A recent report indicates that nearly half of South Koreans are not engaging in the amount of physical activity recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), falling significantly below the global average. The Ministry of Health and Welfare of South Korea has updated the ‘Physical Activity Guidelines for Koreans,’ [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The World Health Organization (WHO) said that it has begun the shipment of COVID-19 medical supplies to North Korea through the Chinese port of Dalian, raising the possibility that the North might be easing its long-enforced tight border controls amid the global pandemic. North Korea has tightened border controls [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The global health body introduced the South Korean system of requiring warning images on electronic cigarettes as an exemplary case in its latest report. The Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic is a biannual survey released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the basis of its evaluation of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The World Health Organization (WHO), which marked Dokdo and Ulleung Island, the easternmost territories of South Korea, on a Japanese map but not on a Korean map, still remains reluctant to correct the error. Cyber diplomacy organization Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) said Monday that the WHO still [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — After the World Health Organization (WHO) omitted Dokdo and Ulleung Island on a recent map of Korea, the agency has been met with strong complaints from a Korean civic group to correct its mistake. However, for more than two months, it has refused to change the map, even with [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The fourth-biggest market for digital games in the world and an aspiring leader in the emerging VR technology, South Korea is at odds with the World Health Organization’s recent decision to put excessive gaming in the official list of disorders. The World Health Assembly, the WHO’s decision-making body, unanimously [...]
GENEVA, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A committee of the World Health Organization’s decision-making body included gaming disorder in its new international classification of diseases (ICD-11) on Saturday, underscoring growing global concerns about gaming addiction. The move could help health professionals prevent and treat the problems stemming from the disorder. Committee B of the World [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s culture ministry said Wednesday it has informed the World Health Organization (WHO) that it’s opposed to codifying gaming addiction as a disease, citing other factors that may influence such behavior. The ministry, together with Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), sent a letter to the WHO on Monday, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has found that the suicide risk for heavy drinkers who also smoke is 256 times higher than for people who don’t drink and smoke. Drinking combined with smoking is like adding fuel to the fire. A research team led by doctoral candidate Jeong Myeong-ji at Yonsei [...]