SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite growing fatigue among citizens over a prolonged social distancing campaign, South Korea needs to further extend its nationwide drive, rather than loosening it up, as there are still risks from new cases steadily popping up, the country’s health authorities said Wednesday. The country launched a strict, two-week-long social [...]
BUSAN, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — In order to shorten the time spent collecting samples for COVID-19 testing, rapid walk-through booths are entering use. The Nam-gu Public Health Center in the southeastern port city of Busan and the manufacturer of an airtight box, Korea Kiyon Co., said Tuesday that they had developed and are testing [...]
DAEJEON, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Local university students have decided to start a movement to share protective masks with foreign students struggling to purchase them. Students at Woosong University in the central city of Daejeon set up a donation box on the school campus on Tuesday and began activities to share protective masks to [...]
HAENAM, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus outbreak is dealing a significant blow to farming and fishing villages across South Korea. While foreign workers are responsible for 80 to 90 percent of the labor force in these villages, there is a marked shortage workers this year as the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the globe, prompting [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean petrochemical firm will launch a project to improve awareness of resource circulation and establish a new domestic plastic recycling economy. Lotte Chemical Corp. held a signing ceremony for “Project Loop” with seven companies in Seoul Monday to establish a plastic recycling economy by improving the culture [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Monday it will push for a second extra budget worth 7.1 trillion won (US$5.8 billion) to provide shopping coupons and gift certificates to more than half of the country’s households to help minimize the economic fallout from the spread of the new coronavirus outbreak. The government [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — While the spread of the novel coronavirus continues unabated, autonomous districts in Seoul are making all-out efforts to ‘wage a war’ on COVID-19. District offices are in charge of the quarantine front and are working to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus outbreak in their community. District heads [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean testing technology for the novel coronavirus will be designated as an international standard. The Korea Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced Sunday that South Korea’s real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method had been accepted by the International Organization [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Pharmaceutical companies are stepping up “digital marketing” as the spread of COVID-19 has made it difficult to sell and market face-to-face with customers. A web seminar held recently by Novartis Korea attracted 985 people, 10 times more than usual. The web seminar was held under the theme of “The [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Gas, a key energy affiliate of energy and telecom conglomerate SK Group, said Sunday that it has reached a deal with Saudi’s Advanced Petrochemical Co. (APC) to set up a joint venture to build a US$1.8 billion plant in the kingdom. SK Gas Petrochemical, SK’s special purpose company, [...]