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On November 11, 2011, six humidifier disinfectants which contain PHMG and PGH were recovered. PHMG and PGH was banned in 2011, and new cases ceased occurring. [1] [2] However, later on, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not find a causal relationship that CMIT and MIT in humidifier disinfectants cause pulmonary fibrosis.
Air Murder (Korean: 공기살인; RR: Gonggisarin) is a 2022 South Korean legal drama film written and directed by Jo Yong-sun. The film, based on novel Gyun by So Ji-won, [2] which deals with the humidifier disinfectant disaster that actually happened in Korea, [a] was released on April 22, 2022.
[7] ==Uses== PHMG was used in Russia to disinfect hospitals [5] and from 2001 on, it was widely used in South Korea as a disinfectant to prevent microbial contamination in household humidifiers. [8] PHMG was "originally marketed for cleaning a humidifier's water tank but instead used by the public as a water additive to suppress microbial ...
March 1 marks the 103rd anniversary of the start of the Korean Independence Movement and commemorates the 2 million Koreans who took to the streets to protest the brutality of Japanese colonial rule.
The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies.
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
[3] [4] Data compiled by the Peace Research Institute Oslo lists just under 1 million battle deaths over the course of the Korean War (with a range of 644,696 to 1.5 million) and a mid-value estimate of 3 million total deaths (with a range of 1.5 million to 4.5 million), attributing the difference to excess mortality among civilians from one ...
The National Defense Corps Incident was a death march that occurred between December 1950 and February 1951, during the Korean War, as a result of corruption. [1] Incident refers to both the deaths from starvation during the retreat and the corruption which led to the deaths.) [ 1 ]