SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s answer to quick and safe testing of the new coronavirus may be a drive-thru clinic and the country’s health authorities said Friday it plans to deploy more such facilities and spots across the country. The move came as a number of local governments have introduced testing facilities [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Companies that require frequent contact with customers are calling on all staff to wear protective masks as the novel coronavirus continues to spread nationwide. In the meantime, some companies are being criticized for falling short of providing the masks to all employees while at the same time insisting that [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team from the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM) revealed scientific evidence that acupuncture is effective against Alzheimer’s disease. There are currently 830,000 people over 65 years of age with dementia in South Korea, which means that at least 1 in 10 senior citizens in the country [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies, although they are also feeling the pinch of the fast-spreading coronavirus, are rushing to join the nationwide virus fight with relief efforts, industry sources said Friday. South Korea has so far reported more than 1,700 COVID-19 cases, with most of them identified in the southeastern city [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday it has joined hands with Deutsche Telekom AG on 5G radio frequency (RF) repeater solutions. SK Telecom said it will collaborate with Deutsche Telekom to install Korean technology-based 5G RF repeaters in major German cities in the second quarter [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Due to the spread of smartphones, illegal spy cam porn crimes have soared and the rate of second offenders is also high. The Ministry of Justice analyzed 74,956 sex crimes and 2901 cases of re-registration under the sex offender registry from 2008 to 2018. As a result, “indecent act [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of discouraged workers in South Korea touched an all-time high in 2019, data showed Thursday, pointing to a tough employment situation amid an economic slowdown. Asia’s fourth-largest economy registered a monthly average of 533,000 discouraged workers last year, up 1.6 percent from a year earlier, according to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — More South Korean companies are adopting remote working systems to help insulate their employees from COVID-19 and contain its spread, industry insiders said Thursday. At 1,500, South Korea has the second-highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases after China. With the number of infections rising rapidly in a week, South [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — While the rapid spread of the new coronavirus infection has made it difficult to find masks in South Korea, made in Korea masks are relatively easy to buy in China. In fact, it is not difficult to buy made in Korea masks with Korean packaging if keywords such as [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Korean adults still dream of moving to a different country, despite their enormous efforts to stay abreast of the intensely competitive society. According to the results of an online survey of 4,229 adults conducted by job portal Saramin, 60.2 percent of the respondents said they [...]