SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency launched on Thursday the process of outsourcing the design of the nation’s first shield-test facility that will be used in experiments related to the African swine fever (ASF) virus. As a 3rd grade biosafety lab, the shield-test facility is a negative pressure-type special [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Tuesday it has developed a new test kit for the African swine fever (ASF) that can pave the way for the country to speed up its battle against the fatal animal disease and reduce its dependency on imported tools. The state-run Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Ever since the outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in September last year, the government, Gangwon Province, and other local authorities have endeavored to reduce crop losses by setting up barriers and capturing wild boars. As fences were set up during the wild boar’s breeding season, the animals were [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The African swine fever (ASF) virus, which has hit South Korea’s pig farmers hard over the past six months, appears to have originated from Russia and China before spreading in the inter-Korean border areas via North Korea, a state-run laboratory said Thursday. The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER), [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of wild boars infected with the deadly African swine fever (ASF) virus has been continuously increasing in South Korea despite a two-month hiatus from local farms, data showed Saturday. The total number of wild boars infected with the virus here has reached 41 since the first such [...]
YEONCHEON, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A tributary to the Imjin River near the inter-Korean border has been partly polluted with blood from carcasses of pigs that were killed and poorly handled during an operation to curb the spread of African swine fever (ASF). Around 47,000 pig carcasses were piled up on a truck at [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean farmers are urging local authorities to make efforts to normalize pork prices here in the face of the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak, industry watchers said Saturday. The local wholesale price of pork reached 2,809 won (US$2.4) per kilogram, plunging 28.2 percent from a year earlier as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Wild boars are posing a growing threat to South Korea’s urban dwellers lately, as the mountain animals flock in growing numbers to residential areas in search of food, destroy properties and facilities and even attack people. This year, wild boars drew fresh media attention, as the deadly African swine [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean quarantine authorities are implementing intensive operations to prevent the possible spread of African swine fever via wild boars, after the country confirmed the ninth case of an infected wild animal, the country’s agriculture ministry said Friday. Two wild boars found dead near the border with North Korea [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) hiking trail on the east coast will be closed indefinitely this week as part of the government’s efforts to fight the spread of African swine fever (ASF) in inter-Korean border areas, officials said Monday. The Gangwon Province county of Goseong, about 160 kilometers northeast of [...]