All posts tagged "Korea Health Promotion Foundation"

  • Korean students are not getting enough sleep. (Yonhap)
    Korean High school students sleep less than 6 hours per day

    By Kim Se-jeong South Korean High school students slept five hours and 27 minutes per night on average last year, compared with six hours and 30 minutes in 2009, a survey showed. Primary school students slept eight...

    • Posted February 17, 2014
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  • Moon Chang-jin, president of Korea Health Promotion Foundation (Courtesy of KHPF)
    ‘Cigarette prices should be doubled’

    By Kim Jae-won The chief of a state-run health promotion agency said the government needs to raise the price of cigarettes by 2,000 won ($1.9) per pack to cut the nation’s notorious high smoking rate. “Raising cigarette...

    • Posted December 5, 2013
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