South Korea came into being as the result of the partition of what had been, prior to the early twentieth century, the ancient kingdom of Chosun.1 This partition into a communist North and a noncommunist South occurred shortly after the defeat of Japan in World War II in late 1945. Korea had been involuntarily absorbed into Japan in 1910, following more than a decade of Japanese domination afte...

Physical therapy is the first line of treatment for adults with symptoms from degenerative spondylolisthesis. Surgical management is offered when nonoperative options have not adequately relieved symptoms. We performed PubMed literature search with the word ‘spondylolisthesis’, and updated till September 18, 2016. We selected original research data involving surgical treatment of degenerative s...

SoohwanLim,a,1 JeongmooPark,a,1 NayoungLee,a Jinkil Jeong,a ShigeoToh,b,2 AsukaWatanabe,b JunghyunKim,a Hyojin Kang,c Dong Hwan Kim,a Naoto Kawakami,b and Giltsu Choia,3 a Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea bDepartment of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 214-8571, Japan cNational...

1Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. 2Genome Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Disease, Clinical Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea. 3Age-Related and Brain Diseases Research Center, Department of Nanopharmaceutical and Life Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. 4Department of Clinical La...

INTRODUCTION The suicide rate of South Korea has increased dramatically during the past decades, as opposed to steadily decreasing trends in Japan and Hong Kong. Although the recent increase of suicide in South Korea may be related to changing socioeconomic conditions and other contextual factors, it may also reflect, in part, a reduction of misidentified suicide cases due to improving classifi...

Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, KIST, P. O. Box 115, Yusong, Taejon 305-600, Korea f Dept. of Agricultural Chemistry, College of Agriculture, Kyungpook National University, 1370, Sankyuk-Dong, Taegu 702-701, Korea ft Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, Pusan National University, Pusan 609-735, Korea m The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research...

Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, USA Department of Physiology and Integrated Biosystems, College of Medicine, Inje University, Busan, Korea Systems Immunology Laboratory, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Inje University and Busan Paik Hospital Organ Transplantation Center, Busan, Kor...

Endoscopic treatment, such as endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), has been established as one of the treatment options for selected cases with early gastric cancer (EGC). Most studies on this topic have been carried out by researchers in Japan. Recently, the experience in EMR/ESD for EGC outside Japan is increasingly reported. In Korea, gastric cancer ...

Author details Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. Department of Preventive Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Sung-Ae General Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. Institute for World Health Development, Mukogawa Women’s University, Hyogo, Japan. Departme...

Food and health security in North East Asia including South Korea, North Korea, China and Japan was compared. Because this region contains countries with many complex problems, it is worthwhile to study the current situation. With about 24% of the world's population, all North East Asian countries supply between 2400 and 3000 Kcal of energy. Regarding health status, two extreme problems exist. ...