SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will suspend visa-free entry and visa waiver programs for 90 countries imposing entry bans on South Koreans from Monday next week as part of efforts to curb the coronavirus inflow from overseas, officials said Thursday. Along with the planned suspension of visa exemptions, all 90-day visas that [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Most South Koreans believe that it’s necessary to use electronic wristbands to keep track of those under self-quarantine as the country aggressively moves to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, opinion polls showed Thursday. In a survey of 1,000 adults nationwide, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, Sports [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has extended visas for foreigners set to expire soon to prevent them from visiting immigration offices amid the coronavirus pandemic, the justice ministry said Thursday. Under the move, visas for around 60,000 registered foreign nationals that are set to expire by May 31 have been automatically extended [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Two more units of the Global Hawk high-altitude unmanned aircraft are expected to arrive in South Korea this month, sources said Thursday, a move expected to further boost the country’s surveillance capabilities against North Korea and beyond. Their planned arrival comes after South Korea brought in its first RQ-4 [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — An airman is under investigation over allegations he took the annual state-administered college entrance exam on behalf of one of his superiors, military officials said Thursday. The service member, whose identity has been withheld, is suspected of taking the annual College Scholastic Aptitude Test in November on behalf of [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Text message notifications of parcel delivery will include information on how to sort and throw away waste materials such as paper boxes. As a growing number of customers are shopping online following the coronavirus outbreak, public and private authorities have teamed up to instruct customers on how to properly [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — An analysis of the ranking of real-time search words on portal sites by age group showed that there are distinct differences in the main interests of each generation. South Korea’s leading portal operator Naver Corp. revealed on Wednesday its analysis of 2019’s popular search words. Those in their teens [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — At the height of the recent controversy over commission fees for food delivery applications, consumers are expressing divided thoughts on the matter. Some worry the burden put on the self-employed with commission fees could be passed on to consumers, while others point out that the problem is only focused [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will host an online seminar this week to share its coronavirus containment measures and know-how with foreign countries, a foreign ministry official said Wednesday. The video presentation, slated for late Thursday, comes as an increasing number of foreign countries has been seeking to benchmark various quarantine steps [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is exploring ways to permit those in self-isolation over the new coronavirus to cast their ballots in next week’s parliamentary elections while minimizing the risk of infection, officials said Wednesday. The National Election Commission (NEC), the election watchdog, is in talks with the government over ways to [...]