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Thu, August 16, 2018 | 17:56

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Elderly need at least 2.5 million won for post retirement

Residents in Seoul think a couple needs 2.52 million won per month on average to have a decent lifestyle after they turn 65 years old, according to a recent study. The Seoul Institute, a city-funded research agency, however, showed people were not preparing for retirement. The institute surveyed 1,013 city residents aged between 20 and 60 from Feb. 5 to Feb 22.

Diseases & welfare | 2018-05-03 16:44

Korea's child traffic death numbers fall sharply in past decade

The number of traffic accident deaths involving children in South Korea has fallen sharply in the past decade, but remains slightly higher than the average rate for members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), government data showed Thursday.

Diseases & welfare | 2018-05-03 12:03

Chinese doctors favor Korea for advanced cancer treatment training, clinical research

A Harvard Medical School assistant professor of surgery asked for his mother, who was diagnosed with stomach cancer in a hospital in Los Angeles, to undergo treatment at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) in 2008. The surgical oncologist at a cancer center with the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and a biomedical research facility located in Boston, asked SNUH Gastric Cancer Center Director Yang Han-kwang if his mother could be treated there.

Diseases & welfare | 2018-04-29 21:01

Suicide No. 1 cause of death for Korean teens

Suicide was the No. 1 cause of death among teens and young people in South Korea in 2016, with the suicide rate rising over the past decade, a report showed Thursday. According to the report by Statistics Korea, the suicide rate per 100,000 for those aged 9-24 stood at 7.8 in 2016, up from 7.4 in 2003 and 7.2 in 2015. The corresponding figure was 10.3 in 2009.

Diseases & welfare | 2018-04-26 12:08

National pension rate forecast to be raised

To ensure the smooth management of the National Pension Service, the government conducts a recalculation every five years of the financial earnings and expenses, which is called the The National Pension Service Financial Forecast.

Diseases & welfare | 2018-04-24 16:33

South Korea reports first tick-borne disease death in 2018

A 62-year-old woman died from a tick-borne disease last week in the first such case in South Korea this year, health authorities said Tuesday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said the woman, who had been working at a livestock farm in Cheongyang, a town in the central province of South Chungcheong, was diagnosed with a severe fever and thrombocytopenia syndrome, or SFTS. S...

Diseases & welfare | 2018-04-24 10:29

Doctor's plea: 'Don't crack down on foreign TB patients'

Over 2,000 foreigners are taking advantage of free tuberculosis (TB) treatment, eating away at taxpayers' money, but cracking down on them is not the answer, a doctor has told The Korea Times. “If you pursue those freeloaders, they would go underground and run the higher risk of spreading the disease,” Oh Kyung-hyun, head of the state-run Korean Institute of Tuberculosis'prog...

Diseases & welfare | 2018-04-19 16:20

Korean medicine attracting more foreigners

The number of foreigners visiting Korea for traditional medical treatments is increasing, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Tuesday. A total of 18,011 foreigners visited traditional Korean medicine hospitals last year, up 36 percent from the previous year. The number accounted for 4.2 percent of the 425,380 foreigners who sought medical treatment here. The prop...

Diseases & welfare | 2018-04-17 17:30

Korea to establish public medical school for provinces by 2022

The government and the ruling party said they will establish a public medical school in Namwon, North Jella Province by 2022 as part of efforts to expand medical services in the region. It will use Seonam University that recently closed as the school's campus. The Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) and the Ministry of Health and Welfare held a meeting at the National Assembly to discuss the plan Wednesday.

Diseases & welfare | 2018-04-15 17:14

Beware: seasonal flu is raging

Spring has come and with it seasonal flu. Hospitals see a sharp increase in the number of coughing and sneezing patients at this time of year. Experts say the hike is typical and can be blamed on the big morning-evening temperature gap. They warned this year could see more patients than previous years due to raging ultrafine dust that often contains flu-causing viruses.

Diseases & welfare | 2018-04-11 15:37

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