SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Picnics and beer drinking are back at parks along Seoul’s Han River after the lifting of social distancing requirements. Starting this week, all COVID-19 social distancing requirements, except the mask mandate, were lifted, including a curfew on operating hours of restaurants, cafes and other small businesses, as well as [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A disabled advocacy group caused delays in train operations in Seoul on Thursday morning as it resumed daily rush-hour subway riding protests, slamming policy suggestions by President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team for people with disabilities. Members of Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) staged demonstrations at Gyeongbokgung Station on Line [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Songpa District Office in Seoul said Wednesday it will increase the number of beneficiaries eligible to receive a “Smart Insole,” a location-tracking device for those with developmental disabilities, from the current 32 to 82. The Smart Insole is a shoe insert mounted with Internet of Things (IoT) technology [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported fewer than 120,000 coronavirus cases for the fifth straight day Wednesday as the omicron-fueled spike in infections slows down. The country added 111,319 new COVID-19 infections, including 17 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 16,583,220, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The transition team of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday slammed the government for prematurely lifting all COVID-19 social distancing restrictions. In a statement read by a spokesperson, transition team Chairman Ahn Cheol-soo said many health workers are concerned the removal of all restrictions at once will cause the public [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — As an increasing number of teenagers are spending long hours playing video games in the pandemic era, the risk of addiction has doubled among them. The Korea Creative Content Agency reported Tuesday that the gaming population among all teenagers between 11 and 19 years of age grew from 77.1 [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A disabled advocacy group decided to resume daily rush-hour subway-riding protests on Thursday, calling upon President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team to come up with more concrete policy suggestions for people with disabilities, officials said. Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) said it will hold protests at Gyeongbokgung Station on Line [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily coronavirus cases jumped Tuesday, apparently due to increased virus tests, but the caseload was about half the tally from a week ago as the spread of omicron slows down. The country added 118,504 new COVID-19 infections, including 20 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Korean people think women are not treated equally to men, a government survey showed Tuesday. According to the quinquennial government study, 53.4 percent of respondents said South Korea is not an equal society for women, down from 62.6 percent tallied in 2016. By gender, [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Phishing scams involving instant messages in South Korea spiked in 2021 due to increased not-in-person activities amid the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Tuesday. The amount of damages from messenger phishing came to 99.1 billion won (US$80.3 million) last year, up 166 percent from the previous year, according to the [...]