On August 14, 2017, eggs contaminated with the insecticide fipronil and bifenthrin were first found in two chicken farms. According to thorough investigations conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) on chicken farms, eggs produced from 52 farms, as of August 21, wer
The finale of October is Halloween, a day on which ghosts and monsters are the main characters. It is certain that humans have been interested in the concept of fear and death for a long time. Humans are very contradictory, however, in that they always possess a fear of death but at the same time en
Through a conference call about an earnings announcement in the second quarter, Kakao announced that the number of Kakao Bank application downloads exceeded 3.4 million, and customers that opened accounts and applied for a debit card reached 2.16 million and 1.5 million each. These are the numbers t
During midterms, many students suffer from sleeping disorders. Some students drink sleep-inducing beverages like ‘Slow Cow,’ while some might be more dependent on drugs. Likewise, many people these days are suffering from sleeping disorders such as insomnia and thus, the demand for sleeping pills ha
On August 2nd of 2017, the Korean government released new real estate measures to address real estate related issues. In the current state two months have passed since a release of new real estate measures; therefore an interim check is needed. The Sungkyun Times (SKT) now introduces the growing Kor
In March, 2017, the whole country was horrified by the case where a 17-year-old girl kidnapped and killed an eight-year-old girl in Incheon. It turned out that the teenage murderer was suffering from schizophrenia. She is expecting a reduction in punishment for this reason, her legal team using Arti
In 1975, the Soviet Union triggered the Space Age by launching the satellite Sputnik No. 1. After a rapid development of space technology, it has now reached the stage of mining space resources. The scenes we have seen only in movies are not just in the imagination or the distant future, but in real
As the Fourth Industrial Revolution is rising, it is genome scissors that are strongly intriguing the field of biotechnology. After the appearance of CRISPR scissors, the genome scissor industry is facing a rapid development. Genome scissors are utilized in many areas including disease treatment and
As the term “Country of Dementia” is coined in Korea, Koreans have started to worry more about dementia. Unlike in the past, when dementia was a disease that many of us knew only from movies or novels, it is now something that we experience in our everyday lives far more. A lot of people including p
The Ministry of Health and Welfare has introduced a system to treat patients with serious medical issues within 15 minutes since September in order to break the ‘three-minute treatment’ that is prevalent in the medical industry. The section chief of the Bureau of Health Insurance Policy of the Minis
Not long ago, there was a huge wave of public anger due to revelations that the founder of Mr. Pizza and the former chairman of MP Group, Jeong Woo-Hyeon, and his family members had abused their power over their franchisees, and this abuse of power is referred to as Gapjil in Korean. Moreover, start
In September, 2017, Seoul city celebrates the second birthday of Dda-renung-e, the public bicycles of Seoul. Recently, many citizens have been riding bicycles to work and school or riding just for fun, on a national scale. Public bicycles are now getting attention around the world. As the number of