SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Most South Koreans support the social distancing campaign to fend off the coronavirus, though three in 10 feel its side effects, a poll showed Wednesday. The survey by the Asian Citizen’s Center for Environment and Health, a nongovernmental organization, also found citizens in an overwhelming number are positive toward [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 6 in 10 South Koreans are in favor of emergency relief funds over the coronavirus outbreak being paid to the entire nation, instead of just the bottom 70 percent income group as proposed by the government, a poll showed Wednesday. According to a survey of 500 adults nationwide, [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans spent an average of two hours per day searching for coronavirus information in March amid a surge in the number of cases, a poll showed Wednesday. The survey, taken by a research team from Yonsei University in Seoul, also showed that those who were in self-quarantine put [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — More South Korean people dined out and visited outlets and parks over the weekend, although the country has been preaching a strict social distancing campaign to curb the outbreak of the new coronavirus, data showed on Monday. According to mobile big data collected by health authorities, people’s movement rose [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of employees at call centers in South Korea still feel their workplaces aren’t properly protected from coronavirus infection, a survey showed Sunday, despite government guidelines announced last month in the wake of a cluster infection at a Seoul call center. In a survey by Workplace Gapjil 119 [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The infection rate of the new coronavirus in closed environments is exceptionally high, data showed Wednesday, in an indication that virus infection may be prevented by avoiding contact in such spaces. As of Monday, 97 people working at a call center in Seoul had been diagnosed with the respiratory [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — About 15 percent of South Korean coronavirus patients said they lost their sense of smell or taste, a survey showed Wednesday, in a possible indication that loss of smell or taste may be an early sign of virus infection. According to the telephone survey by doctors in the virus-hit [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of time people spent on mobile applications on their digital devices increased last month in South Korea, data showed Thursday, amid the spread of the novel coronavirus. South Koreans spent an average daily time of 3.9 hours using their mobile apps in February, up 7 percent from [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 50 percent of South Koreans support a proposal to provide cash to citizens to help them tackle the economic fallout of the new coronavirus, a poll showed Monday. In the survey by Realmeter on 505 people, 48.6 percent of the respondents favored the idea that the government temporarily [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of 10 companies in South Korea are willing to allow their employees to work from home on hopes of containing the coronavirus outbreak, a poll showed Wednesday. The South Korean government has urged local communities to take part in social distancing, a series of tactics designed to [...]