SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases dropped last week to snap seven consecutive weeks of growth, government data showed Monday, encouraging health authorities to resume their plans to lift all virus curbs. The country reported a daily average of 40,400 new infections for the week of Aug. 15-21, down 17.7 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases increased for the seventh consecutive week last week, but the rate of growth slowed, health authorities said Wednesday. The country reported 349,279 new infections for the week of Aug. 6-12, up 0.8 percent from a week earlier, with around 50,000 people infected with the [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — In a surprising turn of events, the number of influenza cases has rebounded since the end of March this year, despite the usual springtime decrease. Experts suggest that this unexpected increase may be due to the recent opening of schools and the lifting of the indoor mask mandate on [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The government on Monday ended the distribution of press releases on the daily report of COVID-19 infections that began on January 20, 2020. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said it will post daily infection reports on its website only, every day at 9:30 a.m. The online [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the number of lawsuits being filed in South Korea continues to grow. The National Court Administration reported that the number of registered lawsuits last year amounted to 6,679,233, up by 0.68 percent (44,889 cases) since the previous year. Among them, 4,829,616 cases dealt with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The average number of annual cases per judge is far higher in South Korea than in other advanced countries. According to data released by the National Court Administration of the Supreme Court, the number of judges totaled 2,966 in 2019, with the number of civil and criminal cases estimated [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey showed that the vast majority of Koreans still think that it is important to control the number of COVID-19 patients despite the decline in the fatality rate resulting from the rollout of a national vaccination program. The Graduate School of Public Health at Seoul National University [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of daily coronavirus cases in South Korea stayed below 200 for the fifth straight day on Monday, but health authorities remain alert over continued sporadic cluster infections across the country. The country added 119 more COVID-19 cases, including 108 local infections, raising the total caseload to 21,296, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of child abuse cases in South Korea jumped 22.1 percent in 2019 from a year earlier, with deaths from mistreatment spiking 50 percent, a government report showed Monday. The annual report showed confirmed cases of abuse came to 30,045 in 2019, up from 24,604 in 2018, while [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — There is a big difference between choosing a sentence for a murder case just by watching the news and issuing a ruling after watching a video of the case as a direct judge. According to the Supreme Court’s Sentencing Committee, people who used the content of the sentencing experience [...]