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SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners’ favorable feelings toward South Korean cultural content marked an overall improvement last year on the strength of the continued popularity of “hallyu,” or the Korean Wave, according to a poll released Saturday by a government agency. The survey of 8,000 people in 17 countries who experienced Korean cultural [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — More universities in Seoul are seeking to replace in-person classes with online lectures due to fears over coronavirus infection. South Korean universities have postponed the start of the spring semester, scheduled for next Monday, by two weeks under the recommendation of the Ministry of Education. With the COVID-19 crisis [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Education authorities of South Korea and China agreed to advise their students against returning to school in the other country as part of their cooperation to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, Seoul officials said Friday. The move comes as the spread of the virus is showing little [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS on Friday canceled the inaugural Seoul leg of its new world tour set to kick off in April as its home country is struggling to contain mass outbreaks of the novel coronavirus. The band’s management agency broke the news through its mobile fan platform, Weverse. [...]
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) — Two foreign-born basketball players said Thursday they’ll leave the South Korean league over fears of the fast-spreading novel coronavirus in the country, joining an American player who made the decision the previous day. The Goyang Orion of the Korean Basketball League (KBL) said Thursday that their center Boris Savovic [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league canceled all of its preseason games on Thursday in response to the recent surge in novel coronavirus infections across the country. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced that all 50 preseason games, scheduled to run from March 14 to 24, will be wiped out, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – In the wake of the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak, a growing number of people are buying clothes online. On the other hand, the cosmetics industry, which has suspended face-to-face services such as makeup demonstrations, is suffering from a sharp drop in sales. An online mall Handsome.com run [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak, offline lectures in the education industry are rapidly being replaced by online lectures. Online education company Hunet Co. reported that the number of students visiting its online classes more than tripled this month compared to the same period a year earlier. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s tourism industry has taken a big hit from the novel coronavirus due to a reduction in both inbound and outbound tourism, stoking concerns that more industry players will eventually shut down, market watchers said Thursday. The number of countries imposing entry bans on travelers who recently visited [...]