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3 million animals used in experiments in S. Korea in 2016

Nearly 3 million animals were used in experiments by universities and public and private research centers in South Korea last year, government data showed Tuesday.A total of 2.88 million mammals, amphibians and fish were experimented on by 333 institutions in 2016, according to the data compiled by the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency.Testing on mammals fell 22.5 percent on-year, while the number of amphibians and fish experiments rose 13.7 percent last year from a year earlier.In the country, 364 universities, medical centers, laboratories and private firms had their own ethics committees on experimental research with animals in accordance with the government's regulations on ethical issues. (Yonhap)

DAILY FORTUNE - FEBRUARY 28, 2017

K-Terminology Koreans being overworked to death in 'kwarosa'

Yeongin post office worker Cho Man-sik died of atherosclerosis caused by excessive work. He is one of the examples of "kwarosa" ― death from overwork. / Courtesy of MBC By Ko Dong-hwanKorea Post says average annual working hours for postal workers in 2016 was 2,531 hours, or 48.7 hours a week ― 8.7 hours more than the national standard.But Korean Postal Workers’ Union chief Kim Myung-hwan questioned the figure’s credibility. With help from a Korea Labor Institute survey, he argued that the employees actually worked more than 55.1 hours a week.“Among 190 Korea Post employees who died in the past five years, 150 were in their 40-50s and over 85 were postal workers. It shows that the service industry’s occupational hazards are very severe,” Kim said.Rep. Lee Jung-mi from the minor opposition Justice Party said most of the nine postal workers who died in 2016 frequently worked overtime, more than 12 hours a day.Choi Seung-mook, chief of Korean Postman Workers’ Union (different from the Korean Postal Workers’ Union), demanded that p

Using Chuna to treat musculoskeletal disorders

 Kim Me-riong  By Kim Me-riong  A pilot program for Chuna manual medicine designed to get National Health Insurance coverage in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders was reported at the National Health Insurance Policy Deliberation Committee, Feb. 13.   Chuna may be somewhat unfamiliar compared to staple treatments in Korean Medicine such as acupuncture or herbal medicine, but it is a long-standing division historically originating from the “Inner Classic of the Yellow Emperor” which dates back to the Warring States Period (BC 475-BC 221).The massage therapies introduced have since been developed to better meet current patients' needs, drawing from and accommodating aspects of other manipulation therapies such as Chinese Tuina, osteopathic medicine and chiropractic.Chuna, consisted of two Chinese characters of “chu,” and “na,” which mean to push and to pull, respectively, usually acts on joints and soft tissue.Chuna is a type of manual therapy, and Korean Medicine practitioners use their hands to apply gentle correctiv