About a year after launching the First Action Plan for Sugar Reduction, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced that from this June, it will provide various contents such as logo songs, animations, and videos to spread public awareness on excessive sugar consumption. This shows that modern Ko
The natural process of aging is one that nobody can escape from. People grow old and many physical disabilities appear along with mental weaknesses as time passes by. This inevitable aging process, however, brought forward a question that has motivated researchers all around the world. How exactly d
Sorok Island is in Goheung, Jeolla Province. Unlike the beautiful name Sorok, which means small deer in Korean, the painful stories of lepers lay in Sorok Island. As many lepers were isolated on Sorok Island, the traces of their lives are still easily found throughout the Island. Jo Sung-Ryong, a Pr
There are various languages in the world. Among them, there is also sign language, which is a language that is not expressed with voices. Perhaps some Kingos have learned how to sign a song or sign their own names in sign language through school activities and recreational programs. Likewise, sign l
Many Kingos might have heard about serious crimes in the military such as the death of "Private Yoon" which was caused by horrendous bullying and abuse by his fellow soldiers. Not only have such incidents become an issue in Korea, but the legitimacy of the judgments behind has become a hot issue.
News reports about fine dust have increased dramatically this year in Korea and public concern is also growing remarkably. The presidential election held in May confirmed the arisen interest. All major candidates promised to tackle the fine dust issue and it was not an exception for the new Korean P
Plants are often considered to lack vitality compared to humans and animals. This is why an unconscious state is also sometimes referred to as a “vegetative state”. Unlike our perceptions, however, plants can communicate with each other and their surroundings, adapting to any given environment to th
Modern people are living in the most enlightened era of technology. Nowadays, various technologies that people could not even imagine in the past are being applied to our daily lives. For example, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), fifth generation mobile technology, the internet
Have you ever thought that Frankenstein’s ‘monster’, which was created by attaching separate body parts together, could actually exist in real life? What about the movie Faceoff where the main character is able to reconstruct his whole face in order to look like another person. Well, now, these fant
As the Fourth Industrial Revolution has come, the worldwide rivalry for patent applications for new technology like Artificial Intelligence (AI) is growing. Major nations like the United States (US) are striving to protect the patents of their domestic industries and secure a share of the new market
“I understand you, therefore I wait for you.” This is a message from a banner which Lotte has put up in the main branch of its Lotte department store. After Lotte had agreed to provide land for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (THAAD) last February, it has been avoided by Chinese consu
The murder of Kim Jong-Nam is a representative case that has revealed the dark side of Kim Jong-Un’s reign of terror and there are more than 30,000 Saeteomins (Defectors from North Korea) who have fled to South Korea in order to depart from the regime. Saeteomins, however, can face other kinds of ad