SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will require foreigners arriving from high-risk nations to submit a certificate showing they tested negative for the new coronavirus from Monday, as the nation struggles with a steady rise in imported cases. The high-risk nations are Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, according to websites of South Korean [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — After a four-month operation, South Korea’s mask ration system ended Sunday as the supply of face masks designed to help fight the new coronavirus has stabilized. As prices of protective masks skyrocketed amid the COVID-19 outbreak here, the country introduced the mask rationing scheme in early March in a [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — While South Koreans are in shock and grief over the abrupt death of Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon last week, the political community here seems to be split over the formalities of publicly mourning it. The controversy is largely because he apparently took his own life in the face of [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea aims to wrap up necessary regulatory reforms by the end of the year in a bid to help startups and small-scale firms find new growth engines, the science ministry said Sunday. So far, 63 programs have been selected for so-called sandbox regulatory measures, which are exempted from [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of South Koreans viewed air pollution as the most pressing environmental concern last year, a government survey showed Sunday, amid a worsening level of fine dust in the country. According to a survey conducted by the state-run Korea Environment Institute on 3,008 people around the country, 46.5 [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of thousands of job seekers braved the new coronavirus pandemic to take a national examination for recruitment of government workers Saturday. The examination for the 2020 recruitment of entry-level civil servants brought together 130,593 job seekers at 426 test sites in 17 cities across the country. The examination [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Paik Sun-yup, a famous Korean War hero and South Korea’s first four-star general, has died, military officials said Saturday. He was 99. He died Friday night, with details of the reason for his passing unavailable. Born in 1920, Paik graduated from a military academy in Manchuria in northeastern China [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in recalled his longtime personal relationship with late Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon in response to Park’s death, a top Cheong Wa Dae official said Friday on a visit to the funeral home in Seoul. Moon was quoted by Noh Young-min, presidential chief of staff, as saying that [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will allow citizens to send more face masks to their family members living abroad, officials said Friday, in line with the government’s plan to end its mask rationing scheme. The government introduced the mask rationing system in early March due to surging demand as the spread of [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — An association of South Korean firms involved in a long-suspended tour program to North Korea’s Mount Kumgang urged the government on Friday to push for legislation that would mandate financial compensation for losses from the suspension. The association, comprised of 49 companies who invested in the tour program, made [...]