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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — About one out of three South Korean adults are not doing enough physical exercise, with women more inactive than men, a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report said. The proportion of inactive Korean people was 35.3 percent — 29.5 percent for men and 41 percent for women — the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Electromagnetic waves detected inside of subway trains operating in Seoul and the surrounding areas have been found to be extremely low, a study showed Thursday. According to the study released by the Ministry of Science and ICT, the average amount of electromagnetic fields emitted from long-term evolution (LTE) networks [...]
Nassau, Bahamas, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Two of the world’s leading health organizations have recently declared that The Islands Of The Bahamas do not pose a known risk to travelers of contracting the Zika virus. No new cases of Zika have been identified in the country within the past 12 months. On February 2, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has announced it will cease a program under which compensation was paid to the family members of organ donors, following pressure from the international community. Under new legislation that will enter into effect in late April, compensation for organ donors will no longer be offered, while [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – An analysis of the dietary history of South Koreans reveals an excessive intake of sugary drinks and processed meats and too little consumption of nuts, milk and vegetables. On January 15 the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) published the results of a study into the diets [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite a modest improvement over the past five years, South Korea still remains among the countries with the highest suicide rates in the world, a new WHO report has revealed. The South Korean suicide rate is 28.4 per 100,000 individuals, ranking fourth among 183 countries surveyed in the 2017 [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has far too lenient regulations on fine dust measurement and needs to toughen the threshold to better inform the public of the air quality amid the worsening climate here, experts here said Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Environment, a daily average of over 50 micrograms of [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A day without a fine dust warning is rapidly becoming a rare occasion in South Korea, as a gray haze of fine particulate matter and smog continues to blanket the Korean Peninsula. Record high levels of air pollution, which easily exceed the World Health Organization’s recommended limits, grab the [...]