SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese state-run media have suddenly turned into ‘epidemic experts’ as they criticized South Korea and a number of countries for being ‘slow’ to address the coronavirus. China, where the coronavirus first originated, is currently eyeing the mounting number of coronavirus patients in South Korea to the extent that the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — With confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus spiraling out of control in South Korea, companies and public organizations are taking measures to encourage telecommuting. Korean branches of global IT companies such as Intel Corp. and Dell Inc. have made telecommuting virtually mandatory for all employees this week. Microsoft Corp. [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Daegu citizens are working together on social media to prop up local businesses, which have been hit hard by the rapidly growing coronavirus outbreak. A Facebook page introducing restaurants in Daegu posted Friday that many establishments are losing money due to the COVID-19 epidemic. These restaurants saw their sales [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecommunication firms are turning to the business-to-business (B2B) industry to survive in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, based on the realization that the business-to-consumer (B2C) area, where companies reap profits from mobile plans, is reaching its limit as almost all South Koreans now own a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 130,000 registered foreigners in South Korea whose period of stay expires between Monday and April 29 are not required to visit immigration offices to extend their visas, the Ministry of Justice said, announcing a new measure to halt the coronavirus outbreak. The ministry said it will automatically [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of foreign countries enacting bans on the entry of visitors travelling from South Korea or tightening travel restrictions for the Asian nation as Seoul has reported a drastic increase in new coronavirus infections in recent days. South Korea has seen the number of confirmed coronavirus cases [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — With the novel coronavirus outbreak spreading rapidly in South Korea, a new website and application CoronaNOW (https://coronanow.kr) are receiving high attention. CoronaNOW provides information about the current status of infections in South Korea through a comprehensive situation board based on data provided by the Korea Centers for Disease Control [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The future is pet-friendly when it comes to medical prescriptions, as least in South Korea. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced that it will implement a revision to the Veterinary License Act starting Friday. The current regulations in place to prevent the misuse and abuse of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies said Monday they are on full alert to minimize any possible fallout from the novel coronavirus as the potentially fatal illness spreads quickly within the country. South Korea on Sunday raised the virus alert level to “red,” the highest in its four-tier system, following a spike [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A homegrown religious group is drawing a growing spotlight and suspicion as a hotbed for coronavirus outbreaks, as more than half of the nation’s confirmed cases are traced to its worshipers. The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said Friday that 98 of the country’s 156 confirmed [...]