LIFESTYLE
[Iclickart] SEOUL -- South Korea's media regulation body shrugged off concerns about strengthened state censorship to push ahead with the blocking of hundreds of illegal or harmful websites accused of providing adult contents such as revenge pornography and gambling with servers based mainly in foreign countries. At issue is server name indication (SNI) technology used by the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) to block off 776 gambling websites, 96 porno sites and 11 sites r
[Yonhap News Photo] SEOUL -- South Korean quarantine officials culled animals at a dairy cattle farm hit by an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and locked down nearby farms to stop the highly contagious disease from spreading to other regions. The agriculture ministry said that cows at a farm in Anseong, some 60 kilometers (36 miles) south of Seoul, tested positive on Monday for the highly contagious disease affecting cloven-hoofed animals. It was the first FMD outbreak in
[Korea Meteorological Administration] SEOUL -- South Korea failed to produce any meaningful results in its first offshore experiment to determine whether artificial rainfall is effective in alleviating air pollution caused by fine dust, which has been a source of prime public concerns and diplomatic disputes in Northeast Asia. The experiment was carried out on January 25 in the Yellow Sea about 110 kilometers (68 miles) northwest of the southwestern town of Yeonggwang with a plane
[Yonhap News Photo] SEOUL -- It could be a temporary change in preference, but mask packs are no longer popular among foreign travelers in South Korea, which has led Asia's fast-growing sheet face mask market along with China. A survey of beauty shops, conducted by Lalavla, a drug store brand of South Korea's health and beauty retailer GS Retail, showed that mask packs gave way to color cosmetics last year in the list of items preferred by foreigner visitors. Color cosmetic
[Yonhap News Photo] SEOUL -- Helped by a steady anti-smoking campaign, South Korea's total cigarette sales a 1.5 percent drop in 2018, but heat-not-burn (HNB) products were found to have secured a solid base of consumers despite an unfinished debate over their harmfulness. Data published by the Ministry of Economy and Finance on Friday showed that South Korean consumers purchased 3.47 billion packages last year, compared to 3.52 billion a year ago. Sales of conventional cigaret
