“Will it happen around me? Will I have to perform CPR?”
Being prepared to administer CPR is crucial for bystanders until paramedics arrive, significantly increasing the chances of survival. Timely and effective CPR can save a life within 4 minutes of cardiac arrest. CPR training equips individuals to be a lifeline for family and friends.

What exactly is sudden cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
Cardiac arrest is a condition in which the heart's pumping function, responsible for blood circulation in the body, suddenly stops due to a various causes. When a heart attack occurs, the blood supply to the body is cut off, eading to the onset of damage to brain cells typically within 4 minutes After 10 minutes, permanent brain damage and organ damage can lead to death. Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation is a first aid method that artificially maintains breathing and circulates blood when breathing or the heart stops beating. When the heart has stopped working, CPR is a method of circulating the blood with external effort, which is crucial for delaying damage to the brain and recovering from a heart attack.

What does the 4-minute miracle mean in CPR?
Because brain cells begin to damage more than four minutes after the heart stops, CPR should be started “immediately if the heart stops or is suspected.”To confirm cardiac arrest, one can check for consciousness and breathing. Performing CPR "as quickly as possible"can significantly increase the chances of survival.

If I am an early witness, how should I perform CPR?
First, check the consciousness. Confirmation of consciousness is done by tapping both shoulders hard and asking, “Are you okay?” You have to ask out loud. If there is no reaction, there is a possibility of cardiac arrest. Second, if you find that there is no response, call 119 immediately by loudly notifying the people around you, and bring an AED(Automated External Defibrillator) if you have one. Even if you don't have CPR experience, you can still do it with the telephone guidance of a 119 paramedic. Third, check their breathing. If you observe the movement of their chest and upper abdomen with your eyes for 10 seconds and they are not breathing or panting, it should be considered apnea. If non-response and apnea are identified, it is cardiac arrest. Fourth, start chest compressions as soon as cardiac arrest is confirmed. After 30 chest compressions, open the airway and perform 2 artificial respirations to allow the chest to rise. However, if it is difficult to maintain the airway and sufficient ventilation is not possible or you are reluctant to give mouth-to-mouth ventilation to others, continue with sufficient speed and intensity of chest compressions. Every 2 minutes, check their response and breathing, and repeat the process of chest compressions again. Fifth, when the AED is ready, attach the pad to the indicated location and press the button to perform defibrillation as instructed by the machine. AEDs are mandatory in apartment complexes with more than 500 units in accordance with Article 47(2) of the Law on Emergency Medical Care. If you don't have an AED, repeat chest compressions until 119 arrives.

Obesity is a global problem. South Korea is one of the countries with a reasonably low obesity rate. We analyze various causes of obesity and prepare countermeasures, from lifestyle problems such as high-calorie foods, excess carbohydrates, excess sugar, and lack of exercise, to hormones such as leptin, ghrelin, and serotonin.
Obesity is the result of overfeeding. Various physical and psychological reasons cause excess intake, and obesity can be improved by changing them.

Western medicine uses drugs that act on the central nervous system to treat obesity. GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide), which is called the “miracle obesity drug” and is an issue these days, is a drug that acts on the pancreas and reduces appetite. In the case of severe obesity, surgery is also used to reduce the size of the stomach directly.

Traditional Korean medicine also has thousands of years of clinical treatment data for obesity. It has long been recognized that obesity, high-calorie foods, and excessive alcohol consumption are the causes of “exhaustion,” a symptom of diabetes, and treatments have been developed.

They don’t feel full and eat food even though their stomach is full. When we are stressed, we eat food continuously. Constitution to consume food due to fatigue and weakness and so on.

In traditional Korean medicine, obesity-prone constitutions are divided into six types and treated according to their body. Successful obesity treatment starts with lowering excessive appetite. Therefore, acupuncture and herb therapy are used to stabilize excessively high appetite. It reduces energy intake, increases the body’s metabolic rate, and reduces body fat. In addition, it prevents weight cycling by suggesting and implementing sustainable dietary habits.

Treating obesity includes weight loss and prevention of recurrence. Treat obesity at Kim Jungkuk Clinic of Korean Medicine, which has treated more than 7,000 obese patients through a treatment developed by Korean medicine doctor Kim Jungkuk, who has lost 30 kg and maintained it for over 10 years.

6 Tips for Treating Obesity

1. 1. You should know that a healthy diet and a diet diet are different.

   The diet should control the total calories, and there is no need to distinguish between the types of food. A healthy diet is about eating food with good ingredients and minimal cooking methods, and it is not a diet.

2. 2. The essence of obesity is calorie excess.

   You will gain weight if the total calories you consume during the day exceed the threshold. If you go on a diet, it’s not just about focusing on healthy foods but also reducing your overall calorie intake!

3. 3. Set a meal routine, and fast for the evening!

   However, carbonated drinks and juicing fruit juices are prohibited. When consuming protein, salt is used, and salads are only oil dressings.

4. 4. Drink 25cc of fluids times your weight.

   Our bodies can’t distinguish between thirst and hunger.

5. 5. No Exercise

   Don’t exercise to lose weight; if you do, you should only drink water for 60 minutes after exercising.

6. 6. Eat Anything

   Eating only certain foods to lose weight or excluding certain nutrients will intensify the weight cycling.

Recently, in cosmetic surgery, interest in lifting has been growing. Lifting mainly refers to a procedure in which sagging skin and tissue of the jawline or cheeks are lifted upwards and fixed.

Such lifting procedures have been actively used in body shape recently, and the number of butt lift treatments has increased rapidly.

In the field of buttock plastic surgery, which enlarges the size of the buttocks or pulls up sagging tissue, it is reported that about 25,000 buttock plastic surgeries were performed in 2019 in the United States alone, accounting for about 4% of all plastic surgeries.

In the past, plastic surgery in the buttock area was a standard method of inserting implants similar to the shape of the buttocks. Still, many patients complained about the pain or foreign body sensations after surgery.

In recent years, it has been common to transplant excess fat from the thighs, abdomen, and the surrounding areas of the buttocks to the upper part of the buttocks, the uneven part on the sides, and the pelvic area, which lacks of volume. If there is a lack of fat, the fat can be replaced with fillers. In addition, if you combine thread lifting during buttock plastic surgery, you can form a more natural and elastic hip line, and you can expect a visual effect that makes your legs look longer while exposing the thighs that were unclear with sagging buttocks.

Therefore, I explain to my patients that volume augmentation and lifting of sagging tissue during buttock shaping can achieve more natural and satisfying results.

The hip-up lifting method has not been used often because medical sutures need to support the weight of the tissue. Still, they have a large muscle mass and a more comprehensive range than the face, so they cannot be sufficiently fixed after the procedure. The trunk or protrusion of the suture can be easily broken.

In this case, the results of the system will not be maintained. In other words, the key is the strength and tissue fixation of the suture, and the medical Epiticon thread, which was recently developed with domestic technology, can firmly fix the collected tissue while maintaining the melting property that does not leave foreign substances in the body, so it is suitable for buttock shaping. I have presented the buttock lift plastic surgery procedure using Epiticon thread at PRS KOREA, Jetema 2023 BESPOKE Symposium, International Journal 2021 Dermatologic Surgery, INTERCHARM Russia 2018, and Beyond Beauty ASEAN Bangkok 2019 Expo, and has been highly acclaimed in the medical field of cosmetic surgery.

Korean-style buttock lift, using the medical thread developed in Korea will be a helpful solution for people worldwide struggling with their body lines.