SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Small merchants on Friday welcomed the government’s decision to lift all COVID-19 social distancing rules, except the mask mandate, next week for the first time in two years, while some people still expressed concerns over the possible resurgence of the virus. Starting Monday, restaurants, cafes and other small businesses [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — One third of South Koreans will be over 65 years of age by 2040, indicating that senior population will triple in proportion to the productive age population between 15 and 64 years of age, a report showed Thursday. The country’s overall population will shrink from 51.84 million in 2020 [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Movex Co., a logistics system affiliate under Hyundai Group, said Thursday it has introduced Roboport, a next-generation elevator for robots, at Naver Corp.’s new office building. Roboport is the world’s first elevator dedicated to service robots. More than 100 service robots will use Naver Cloud and ARC (AI, robot and cloud), [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Friday it plans to provide discount coupons to support ticket prices of professional sports games and accommodation fees in a bid to help spur consumption as it has decided to lift COVID-19 virus restrictions. The government plans to permit people to watch four kinds of sports [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will lift all COVID-19 social distancing rules, except a mask mandate, next week, Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said Friday, marking the first time all restrictions have been lifted since the pandemic began two years ago. Starting Monday, restaurants, cafes and other small businesses will be able to [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Expressway Corp., which manages South Korea’s highways across the nation, said Thursday it had introduced a “safety signal light” system in which it assesses the safety level of highway construction sites once a month and visualizes the result by color. The new system was introduced last month [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A significant number of elementary school students have been facing anxiety and depression since the onset of the pandemic era, survey showed Wednesday. The Korea Educational Environments Protection Agency conducted a survey of 341,412 children attending elementary, middle and high school, in which 25.4 percent of elementary school students [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As the process of digitalization builds up speed amidst the spread of contactless services in the pandemic era, more people in their 50s and 60s are using online banking and shopping platforms. The Ministry of Science and ICT conducted a survey of 25,144 households and their 60,305 members over [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s total population has started to decline amid low childbirths, but the number of foreigners here is forecast to continue to increase to make up of 4.3 percent of the population in 2040, a report showed Thursday. After peaking at 51.84 million in 2020, the country’s total population [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will begin a 110 billion won (US$89.8 million) project next year to develop a laser device to safely remove unexploded ordnance by 2027, the state arms procurement agency said Thursday. The policy and planning subcommittee of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) approved the project and plans [...]