SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases stayed below 30,000 for the third straight day Friday, but signs have emerged indicating that the coronavirus might be picking up steam again. The country reported 24,751 new COVID-19 infections, including 60 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 25,244,255, the Korea Disease Control [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases continued to stay below 30,000 Thursday as the country’s virus curve has moved down in recent months. The country reported 25,431 new COVID-19 infections, including 53 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 25,219,546, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. Thursday’s [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the rising death toll from alcohol addiction during the pandemic, more than half of victims died a so-called solitary death on their own. The Korean Academy of Addiction Psychiatry showed that the death toll from alcohol abuse jumped from 156 people in 2019 to 204 people in 2020 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Fresh and processed food sales are on the rise as more people are choosing to dine at home instead of going to a restaurant due to rising consumer prices. Major online shopping mall Gmarket, citing its sales data for the third quarter of this year, said Wednesday that fresh [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of households in the capital city of Seoul is expected to gradually decrease starting in 2030, data showed Thursday, as more people move to other areas in search of affordable housing. According to the estimate by Statistics Korea, the number of households in Seoul, which came to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A boycott of South Korea’s food and beverage giant SPC Group is spreading among consumers after a young worker in her 20s died at a factory affiliated with the group. The 23-year-old employee at the factory affiliated with the group in Pyeongtaek, 65 kilometers south of Seoul, died Saturday [...]
IKSAN, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Police arrested members of an illegal gambling ring last Sunday, partly aided by a major outage at mobile messenger KakaoTalk. Outside an illegal gambling den located within a commercial building in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, a man stood guard. When a stranger came close to the gambling den, he [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases dipped Wednesday, in a sign that the virus curve has yet to change its downward course that the country has seen in recent months. The country reported 29,503 new COVID-19 infections, including 72 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 25,194,177, the Korea Disease [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The recent massive disruption of Kakao Corp.’s dominant chat messenger KakaoTalk and other related services has affected nearly all sectors of South Korea, ranging from social networking and business to finance and transportation. It took about four days for the company to fully repair damaged servers and normalize all [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Koreans are redeeming their credit debts prior to their expiration date due to heavier financial burdens caused by rising interest rates, with some even willing to pay penalties for redeeming debts prior to the due date. Rep. Yun Chang-hyun of the People Power Party [...]