Moon receives reply from Austrian nurses known for helping Korean patients koreatimes.co.kr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from koreatimes.co.kr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Basic income and the climate crisis
Posted : 2021-06-27 17:00 By Kim Sun-ae
In a book titled The Moment the Question Becomes the Answer, Lee Won-jae, a critic on the economy, talks about his childhood when he lived on Sorok Island in South Jeolla Province. Most of the residents there were people with leprosy, and they were provided with housing, food and medical care. In other words, they did not need to earn money in order to survive.
However, they sold their agricultural products by doing small-scale farming, received wages by helping out at a hospital, volunteered at a church, and participated in religious activities at a Buddhist temple. Lee saw that even though the basic conditions for survival were guaranteed, people found meaningful work to do.
Austrian nurse receives Florence Nightingale Medal koreatimes.co.kr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from koreatimes.co.kr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
[Korea Encounters] Looking down high noses at quack plastic surgeons in 1971
Posted : 2021-01-26 17:55
Updated : 2021-01-26 18:51
By Matt VanVolkenburg At one section of Yonsei Medical Center, strange things are happening. A harelipped boy steps out with a normal mouth. A flat-nosed girl consults a doctor; next day, out comes gingerly a piquant face with that forward-look nose. These miraculous changes are the results of modern plastic surgery, which in Korea found a home at the plastic surgery section of the hospital a year ago.
So began a Korea Times article on June 18, 1964, about Lew Jae-duk, an early Korean pioneer of plastic surgery who was trained in the U.S. Prior to the department opening at Yonsei Medical Center, Korea s first plastic surgery department was established at Severance Hospital in 1961.