SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co., the country’s biggest airline by sales, said Friday it will reduce flights on U.S. routes next month and use smaller planes due to declining demand amid the spread of the new coronavirus. Korean Air will temporarily reduce the number of flights on the routes from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s answer to quick and safe testing of the new coronavirus may be a drive-thru clinic and the country’s health authorities said Friday it plans to deploy more such facilities and spots across the country. The move came as a number of local governments have introduced testing facilities [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Companies that require frequent contact with customers are calling on all staff to wear protective masks as the novel coronavirus continues to spread nationwide. In the meantime, some companies are being criticized for falling short of providing the masks to all employees while at the same time insisting that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker by sales, said Friday it has halted operations at one of its domestic plants after an employee there was diagnosed with the new coronavirus. Hyundai Motor immediately brought work at the No. 2 plant in the southeastern port city of Ulsan to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS on Friday canceled the inaugural Seoul leg of its new world tour set to kick off in April as its home country is struggling to contain mass outbreaks of the novel coronavirus. The band’s management agency broke the news through its mobile fan platform, Weverse. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Candidates for the April elections have stopped conventional campaigning amid the fast spread of the new coronavirus, restricting their campaigns to social media and joining the fight against the virus. The familiar scenes of election campaigning — meeting voters, shaking hands and public speeches — are no longer being [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Online traffic for Netflix Inc., the global entertainment service provider, jumped in the last few days as more people are staying indoors to fend off the coronavirus. Global Big Data Research, a South Korean big data analysis agency, studied the amount of online traffic of seven over-the-top (OTT) platforms [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of Chinese students enrolled in universities here are canceling their trips to the country ahead of the new school year amid heightening fears over the new coronavirus, data showed Friday. Roughly 1,300 students were set to arrive here on Feb. 25, but 36 percent of them [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies, although they are also feeling the pinch of the fast-spreading coronavirus, are rushing to join the nationwide virus fight with relief efforts, industry sources said Friday. South Korea has so far reported more than 1,700 COVID-19 cases, with most of them identified in the southeastern city [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Chinese nationals entering South Korea is declining, the justice ministry said Thursday, following tighter monitoring of people arriving from the neighboring country amid a spike in the number of new coronavirus cases here. According to government data, 1,404 Chinese entered South Korea on Wednesday, down 92.6 [...]