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Wed, July 24, 2019 | 02:56

Foreign students in Korea to be exempted from new health insurance system

Foreign students here will be exempted from mandatory registration in the state health insurance program until February 2021, the insurance program operator said Wednesday.

2019-06-26 16:03

Young YouTuber says she is happiest cancer patient

Cho Yoon-ju, a 30-year-old ovarian cancer patient, says she has had “life or death” surgery twice already. In December, 2011, four months after Cho started working as a lecturer on customer services, she felt excruciating pain in her abdominal area and collapsed several times on the subway. At the hospital for what she thought would be a “minor” procedure, she went through an...

2019-06-25 17:22

Gov't to increase access to hospice care by 2023

The government said Monday it will make hospice care more accessible for terminally ill patients by offering more end-of-life care, easing eligibility and increasing counseling.

2019-06-24 16:15

Vaping 'far less harmful than smoking'

E-cigarettes are “far less harmful” than conventional ones because they produce fewer toxins than in tobacco smoke, Philip Morris Korea argued Monday. Studies over the past few years by the U.S.-based cigarette giant show that vaping is about 90 percent less harmful than smoking because it does not involving inhaling burned tobacco, which is greatly damaging to human health.

2019-06-24 16:07

Suicide rate declines, but not among youth

Recently released data showed Korea's overall suicide rate is on the decline, but it still remained the top cause of death among people in their 20s.

2019-06-23 16:25

Vegetarian holds anti-meat protests at pork restaurant

A video clip is causing a stir among internet users in which a vegetarian woman holds a protest against eating meat at a pork restaurant.

2019-06-20 16:21

40% of old Koreans supportive of 'grey divorce'

Four out of 10 Koreans in their 50s and 60s said they would consider “twilight divorce” or “graduation from marriage,” a survey found, Wednesday. Twilight divorce, or grey divorce, refers to a legal end of marriage by couples in their golden years, and graduation from marriage means living apart from a spouse without being legally divorced.

2019-06-19 15:17

Ministry to start cleanup of former intelligence command HQ site

The Ministry of National Defense said Tuesday it will start designing a clean-up project for the former site of the Korea Defense Intelligence Command (KDIC) headquarters under the ministry’s Defense Intelligence Agency in Seocho-gu, southern Seoul, starting August. The announcement came a day after recent data showed the site was heavily contaminated, a result of total petro...

2019-06-18 17:03

65% of young people think marriage, childbirth unnecessary: survey

More than six out of 10 people in their 20s to 30s do not see marriage and childbirth as necessary, mainly because of financial pressure, a survey showed, Monday.

2019-06-18 13:04

How to avoid food poisoning in hot weather

Summer is the season when special attention should be paid to food safety to prevent food poisoning.

2019-06-16 16:31

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