SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans began an unprecedented post-social distancing life Wednesday, hopefully welcoming the transition yet remaining cautious over possible COVID-19 breakouts. Starting Wednesday, South Korea has officially shifted to “everyday life quarantine” following more than two months of “intensive social distancing” in line with a consistent and continuous flattening of [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the fixtures in President Moon Jae-in’s daily schedule in recent months has been to have phone calls with the leaders of foreign countries seeking South Korea’s help in coping with the coronavirus pandemic. The long list includes friends, partners and allies from across the world, such as [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — After successfully flattening the coronavirus curve, South Korea is transiting this week to a quarantine scheme that allows citizens to return to their daily routines under eased guidelines. But health authorities are still wary of “blind spots” in the fight against the virus — cluster infections and imported cases. [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league, for which the regular season is set to open on Tuesday, has become of the talk of town, drawing attention from sports officials and fans around the world, including Spain’s La Liga as well as Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and the U.S. sports [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — On many levels, the 2020 South Korean professional baseball season will be unlike any of the 38 that came before it. Because of the coronavirus outbreak earlier in the spring, the start of the new Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season was pushed back from March 28 to May 5, [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The late Kim Bok-dong, a former sex slavery victim-turned human rights activist, received Wednesday a posthumous award from Amnesty International in recognition of her passion for and efforts toward the human rights of sex slavery victims. The Korean branch of the U.K.-based non-governmental organization has chosen the late activist [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Small and medium-sized businesses that overcame the coronavirus crisis with help from Samsung Electronics Co. are now making donations to fight the global pandemic. Businesses participating in the smart factory project led by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, Korea Federation of SMEs, and Samsung are stepping forward to [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government is pushing for a new international standard based on the country’s quarantine practices to share its experiences with the world. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced Sunday that it will compile all procedures and methods used to fight the coronavirus to create a [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — At the height of the new coronavirus outbreak, countless people are stuck at home, and most have been unable to enjoy their leisure activities. It is said that online games and online workouts are the flagship products of the new ‘homeconomy’ that allow citizens to enjoy their leisure time. [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Computers made the list of South Korea’s top 10 export items again in the first quarter of the year amid the spread of teleworking due to the coronavirus outbreak, data showed Thursday. South Korean exports of computers and related products came to US$3.18 billion in the January-March period, accounting [...]