SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The pending merger between the nation’s number one food delivery app Baedal Minjok (Baemin), and Yogiyo, the industry’s second largest player, has led to a growing negative public sentiment with widespread concerns about monopolistic behavior. In particular, recent changes to Baemin’s fee system from a flat rate to a [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in has used telephone services for his recent summit diplomacy in response to the coronavirus. Over the past several weeks, he has received lots of phone calls from global leaders seeking his quarantine advice or the supply of medical devices, especially test kits. Many view [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — While unexpected cluster infections and coronavirus blues continue to dispirit people here, there’s at least one thing they no longer have to fret about: buying face masks. Nearly a month into the government’s mask rationing system, supply has loosened up in many neighborhoods across the capital, sparing people from [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are now growing more and more tired of keeping distance other members of society, a means to prevent further spread of COVID-19, as the outbreak continues unabated. The advice of infectious disease experts is that the government’s guidelines should be presented more clearly and in detail to [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of the April 15 parliamentary elections, there have been calls for the removal gender designations from the electoral register to prevent sexual minorities from having their basic rights violated. The Rainbow Action, an activist group for sexual minorities, held a press conference in front of the National Human [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Are South Korean schools and students ready for online classes? The question is drawing rising public attention as elementary and secondary schools nationwide were asked by the government on Tuesday to begin the spring semester with online classes, in steps starting April 9, to prevent classroom infections of the [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The birthrate in South Korea, plunging at an unprecedented speed, is largely influenced by the popularity of remaining single and a growing number of married couples choosing not to have children. Last year, the country’s total fertility rate, the average number of births for each female, was 0.92, the [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea needs to come up with “sustainable” social distancing measures before people return to their normal lives, medical experts said Friday, as the novel coronavirus outbreak still poses a threat to public health. South Korea is pushing for strict social distancing, urging citizens to suspend operations of religious, [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 160,000 South Koreans have participated in volunteer activities to help fight the new coronavirus and support neighbors in need for the past two months, government data showed Thursday. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said the accumulated number of volunteers in anti-virus efforts across the country [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean-made virus test kits are increasing their presence in overseas markets, industry observers said Thursday, as demand for diagnostic tools to fight the new coronavirus accelerates in many virus-hit countries. According to Seoul’s foreign ministry, 47 countries have so far asked about importing South Korean-made coronavirus test kits, [...]