Young June Choe, Eun Hwa Choi
, Jong Woon Choi, Byung Wook Eun, Lucy Youngmin Eun, Yae-Jean Kim, Yeo Hyang Kim, Young A. Kim, Yun-Kyung Kim, Ji Hee Kwak, Hyuk Min Lee, Hyunju Lee, Joon Kee Lee, June Dong Park, Eun-Jin Kim, Young Joon Park, Jin Gwack, and Sang Won Lee Author affiliations: Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, South Korea (Y.J. Choe); Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul (E.H. Choi, H. Lee, J.D. Park); Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea (J.W. Choi); Eulji University School of Medicine, Seoul (B.W. Eun); Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul (L.Y. Eun, H.M. Lee); Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul (Y.-J. Kim, J.H. Kwak); School of Medicine Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea (Y.H. Kim); Pusan National University Children s Hospital, Yangsan, South Korea (Y.A. Kim); Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul (Y.-K. Kim); Chungbuk National University Hospital, Cheo
Posted : 2021-01-17 16:17
Updated : 2021-01-17 17:14
Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk speaks during a confirmation hearing at the National Assembly, Sept. 6, 2019. / Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul
By Lee Hyo-jin
Controversy is rising after former Justice Minister Cho Kuk s daughter, who has been embroiled in academic fraud scandals including having documents fabricated that were used to gain her admission to medical school, recently obtained a medical license.
Cho Min, 29, a senior at the medical school of Pusan National University (PNU), acquired the license after passing the written test of the state medical license exam conducted on Jan. 7 and 8. She had already passed the practical skills test last September.
Unnecessary random testing causes burden for quarantine work
Posted : 2021-01-15 16:00
Updated : 2021-01-17 10:36
Public servants of Gyeonggi Provincial Government and its affiliates line up for coronavirus tests at a makeshift testing center set up at the provincial government building compound in Suwon, Wednesday. Yonhap
By Bahk Eun-ji
As the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic drags on, more and more local governments, institutions and companies are urging residents and employees to get tested.
Although the move is aimed at preventing the spread of infection in advance, some point out that it is inefficient to conduct random tests for all residents or all workers regardless of whether they have been in contact with the virus. It is also a concern that mass testing will increase the workload for quarantine workers and waste administrative costs.
Childhood obesity on the rise during pandemic
Posted : 2021-01-11 10:21
By Jung Da-min
The increase in childhood obesity in recent years has been especially accelerated due changes in lifestyle brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the medical community.
Medical experts said as children have been spending more time at home due to the pandemic, they have been less physically active and tend to be eating more snack food, especially late at night.
According to a study by Yi Dae-yong, a clinical associate professor at Chung-Ang University Hospital s department of pediatrics based on statistics from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service under the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the number of children and adolescents under the age of 20 who received hospital treatment for obesity has more than doubled in four years from 1,837 in 2015 to 3,812 in 2019. During the same period, the proportion of obese patients under the age of 20 also rose from 11.3 percent to