On Feb. 21, 2003, a doctor from Guangzhou, China, visited Hong Kong to attend a wedding of a relative. After having flu-like symptoms for a few days, the doctor suddenly got worse at a hotel in Hong Kong. He would have had a severe cough in the hallway or the elevator, as well as in room 911 on the ninth floor of the hotel that he stayed with his wife.Five days later, on Feb. 26, a busines
“Up to 126.9 eggs tainted with pesticides are fine to eat a day.”This was the message that the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs gave out to assure the public, outraged and panicked by the recent egg contamination scandal that has rocked the nation for the past week. News commentator Kim Jong-bae, who hosts a local TBS radio show, put it t
President Moon Jae-in has appointed Professor Park Ki-young박기영 of Sunchon National University to head the Science, Technology and Innovation Office in the Ministry of Science and ICT과학기술정보통신부. It is a vice minister’s post but no less than a ministership because it has a right to control the nation’s R&D budget of 20 trillion won ($18 billion). This explains why the science and technology community