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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn said Thursday that the government should preemptively deal with the possible outbreak of the Zika virus by strengthening cooperation with international health authorities. “The government should intensify cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) and share information with Zika outbreak countries,” Hwang said during a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) will support the export of domestic vaccines, by helping Korean drug manufactures to obtain the WHO’s PQ qualification. On January 15, the MFDS announced that it would expand its WHO PQ qualification counseling and consulting for Korean vaccine manufacturers who want to [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Commemorating World Malaria Day, which came on April 25th, “Ki-Heung Service Area,” an expressway rest area in the south of Seoul, took an initiative to prevent Malaria for locals and children in Uganda. “World Share,” an overseas relief agency, teamed up with the rest area to hold a “Mosquito Net [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 06 (Korea Bizwire) - The number of people who have signed a petition to oppose organ harvesting has surpassed 230,000, the highest level among countries in which similar appeals were circulated. The grassroots campaign is set to transform into a nation-wide movement with 5,000 medical professionals, 80 lawmakers, and more than 100 local and national-level politicians [...]