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Korea to send inspection team to Fukushima Sunday

Park Ku-yeon, left, the first deputy chief of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, speaks during a news conference at the Government Complex Seoul, Friday. At right is Yoo Guk-hee, chairperson of the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission who will lead a delegation to inspect the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chulHead of Nuclear Safety and Security Commission to lead Seoul teamBy Jun Ji-hyeKorea will dispatch a 21-member delegation to Japan this Sunday to assess the neighboring country's plan to discharge treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, the government announced, Friday.The delegation, led by Yoo Guk-hee, who chairs the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission, will stay in Japan until May 26 to conduct on-site inspections at the plant and hold discussions with Japanese officials.Park Ku-yeon, the first deputy chief of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, announced the plans as the two countries reached a consensus on the details of the inspection after working-level talks.In A

May 19, 2023By Jun Ji-hye
Korea to send inspection team to Fukushima Sunday
Health

Unprecedented heat wave likely to hit Korea this summer

gettyimagesbankBy Jun Ji-hyeA scorching heat wave is likely to hit the Korean Peninsula this summer beginning next month, the state weather agency forecast on Friday. The possibility of unprecedented heat is due to high-pressure systems and the return of a stronger El Nino.According to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), the probability of higher temperatures than average in mid-June and late June stood at 40 percent and 50 percent, respectively.The figures are compared to the probability of lower-than-average temperatures during the cited periods, which stood at only 20 percent and 10 percent, respectively.The weather agency attributed the hotter summer to an eastern Pacific subtropical anticyclone affecting the peninsula.The return of El Nino ― as its cooler counterpart La Nina retreats ― is also expected to contribute to the increased likelihood of an unprecedented heat wave during summer. El Nino events start with the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern and central Pacific Ocean and occur in cycles of about three to five years. The phenomenon creates a dom

May 19, 2023By Jun Ji-hye
Unprecedented heat wave likely to hit Korea this summer
Health

New gov't guidelines for telemedicine face criticism

Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong, right, speaks during a policy consultation meeting between the government and the ruling People Power Party at the National Assembly to discuss telemedicine services, Wednesday. At left is PPP chief policymaker Rep. Park Dae-chul. Yonhap Use of 1st time patients, drug delivery to be removed from pilot programBy Jun Ji-hyeFewer people are likely to receive non-face-to-face medical services, or telemedicine, starting next month. The government made the decision to narrow the telemedicine services currently available, Wednesday, allowing mainly second-visit or regular patients to benefit from its trial program. The Telemedical Industry Council under the Korea Startup Forum claimed the decision does not reflect the usage trend of telemedicine, citing its survey showing that 99 percent of patients using telemedicine services were first-time patients. The trial program will not allow drug delivery, either, inviting criticism that the government removed one of the biggest benefits of telemedicine.Telemedicine services, which are illegal under the current Medi

May 18, 2023By Jun Ji-hye
New gov't guidelines for telemedicine face criticism
Tech & Science

Korea University graduate wins gold medal at global AI tech contest

By Jun Ji-hyeSohn Ho-yeol, a graduate of Korea University, won the gold medal in a recent Kaggle contest, in which some 1,400 artificial intelligence (AI) developers and teams from around the world competed for three months. Sohn Ho-yeol / Courtesy of Korea UniversityKaggle, hosted by Google, is the world's largest data science community, where global developers engage in open competition to suggest solutions to tasks assigned by global companies. It is sometimes dubbed as the world's AI Olympics or AI UFC, according to Korea University, Thursday. Sohn, who graduated from the university last February, took the first place with his development of an education model that would enable hearing-impaired children to learn sign language through a game. Sohn received $50,000 in prize money and earned the accumulated ranking of No. 20 among 200,000 participants who have participated in Kaggle contests so far. Among Koreans, he is ranked at the top. Sohn became interested in AI and in participating in Kaggle while taking deep learning and AI classes at the university in 2021. So far, he has re

May 18, 2023By Jun Ji-hye
Korea University graduate wins gold medal at global AI tech contest
Politics

Nurses reject doctors' 'unlawful' orders following Yoon's veto of Nursing Act

Kim Young-kyeong, who heads the Korean Nurses Association, speaks during a press conference near the association's building in Seoul, Wednesday. YonhapBy Jun Ji-hyeNurses across the country began their collective action, Wednesday, in protest against President Yoon Suk Yeol's veto of the opposition-led Nursing Act.The collective action, led by the Korean Nurses Association, began with physician assistant (PA) nurses rejecting “unlawful” orders made by doctors such as to perform certain parts of operations or prescribe medicine instead of doctors. The association also launched a campaign to collect the licenses of nurses for a month and return them to the Ministry of Health and Welfare as part of its protest.“The president failed to distinguish untrue claims (made by objectors of the act) and exercised his veto power,” Kim Young-kyeong, the head of the association, said during a press conference. The action came a day after the president vetoed the Nursing Act, after it had been railroaded through by the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea. Yoon sided wit

May 17, 2023By Jun Ji-hye
Nurses reject doctors' 'unlawful' orders following Yoon's veto of Nursing Act
Politics

Nurses set to take collective action after Yoon vetoes Nursing Act

Members of the Korean Nurses Association cries after a press conference in front of the presidential office, Tuesday, following President Yoon Suk Yeol's announcement of his decision to veto the Nursing Act. YonhapBy Jun Ji-hyePresident Yoon Suk Yeol exercised his veto power against the opposition-led Nursing Act, Tuesday, despite continued calls from nurses to sign it into law.The president made the decision during a Cabinet meeting, siding with doctors, nursing assistants and other medical workers, who claim the act will only divide the medical profession and cause conflict and confusion. In protest against the president's decision that could eventually lead to the scrapping of the bill, the nurses' association threatened to begin collective action.Independent from the Medical Services Act, the Nursing Act is aimed at clarifying the scope of nurses' duties and improving their working conditions. Nurses claim the Medical Services Act views them as being subordinate to physicians. Also, due to ambiguities in the current law, nurses say they are often forced to perform duties outside

May 16, 2023By Jun Ji-hye
Nurses set to take collective action after Yoon vetoes Nursing Act
Health

US doctor gives lectures on VNS therapy for epilepsy in Korea

James Wheless, professor and chief of the Department of Pediatric Neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, gives a lecture at Seoul National University Hospital, May 9. Courtesy of Dongsan HearingBy Jun Ji-hyeJames Wheless, professor and chief of the Department of Pediatric Neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, gave lectures earlier this month at Korean hospitals on vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), a technique for treating people with epilepsy.Dongsan Hearing, Korea's sole VNS provider, said Wednesday that Wheless, a recognized authority on seizure disorders and epilepsy in children and adolescents, visited Seoul National University Hospital, Samsung Medical Center, Severance Hospital and Gachon University Gil Medical Center to give his lectures from May 8 to 10. Wheless, who also chairs the Division of Pediatric Neurology at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, visited Korea for the first time at the invitation of Dongsan Hearing and LivaNova, a global medical device company.During his lectures, Wheless shared his knowledge and knowhow with

May 16, 2023By Jun Ji-hye
US doctor gives lectures on VNS therapy for epilepsy in Korea
Politics

Opposition party urges president not to overuse veto power

Rep. Park Kwang-on, right, floor leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea, speaks during a party meeting at the National Assembly, Monday. On the left is DPK Chairman Rep. Lee Jae-myung. YonhapHealth ministry says Nursing Act hinders cooperation in medical fieldBy Jun Ji-hyeRep. Park Kwang-on, floor leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), urged President Yoon Suk Yeol not to overuse his veto power, Monday, as the president is widely expected to veto the opposition-led Nursing Act during a Cabinet meeting set for Tuesday amid strong protests from doctors and nursing assistants who are opposed to the law.Rep. Park said during a party meeting that Yoon's possible veto shows his ignorance regarding the National Assembly.“The president should exercise his veto power carefully and not overuse it,” he said. The floor leader noted that the legislation of the Nursing Act was one of Yoon's election pledges, urging the president to sign it into law at the Cabinet meeting.The comments came as the ruling People Power Party (PPP) and the government

May 15, 2023By Jun Ji-hye
Opposition party urges president not to overuse veto power
  • Yoon rejects nursing act in his second veto
Society

Seoul education chief vows to instate better occupational protections for teachers

Students hold a ceremony to present flowers to their teachers in celebration of Teachers' Day, Monday, at a middle school in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province. YonhapBy Jun Ji-hyeCho Hee-yeon, the superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, has vowed to more strictly control the visits of parents to schools in a move that he claims will better protect teachers.Writing on his Facebook account on the occasion of Teachers' Day, Monday, Cho called on the Seoul Metropolitan Council to promptly pass a bill to legislate an ordinance aimed at protecting the occupational activities of teachers.“As soon as the council passes the bill, I will create a rigorous system, including an advance reservation system, to control visits from outsiders including parents, to schools,” he wrote.The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education drew up the bill last year following a series of incidents concerning the infringement of teachers' rights.The bill contains a regulation that a head of a school can limit access to visitors including parents if they disrupt students' learning or threaten

May 15, 2023By Jun Ji-hye
Seoul education chief vows to instate better occupational protections for teachers
Politics

Study reveals around half a million young Koreans live in isolation

gettyimagesbankBy Jun Ji-hyeFive in 100 young people aged 19 to 34 live in seclusion, without meaningful interactions with others, a recent report revealed, raising the need for the government to draw up timely support measures.The report, written by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, revealed on Sunday that the number of young people who isolate themselves from society was 5 percent in 2021. The research team defines the state of isolation as when a person does not interact with others, except family or those with whom they have to maintain contact for work, and when a person has nobody to ask for help when facing difficulties.When the ratio is applied to the youth population of 10.8 million in 2021, the number of isolated youth is estimated to be at 538,000.The ratio, which was 3.1 percent in 2019, increased sharply while the country went through the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the institute. The level of life satisfaction of these isolated respondents was generally low; 17.2 percent said they were “very dissatisfied” with their lives. This was compa

May 15, 2023By Jun Ji-hye
Study reveals around half a million young Koreans live in isolation
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