SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are struggling with stronger feelings of anger and fear following the recent surge in new coronavirus cases after mid-August, a poll showed Tuesday. According to the survey of 2,000 adults nationwide conducted from Aug. 25-28 by Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Public Health, 47.5 percent counted [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Once regarded as having an attitude towards customers bordering on arrogance, luxury hotels are making a about-face in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Luxury hotels have a strong sense of crisis that they may not be able to survive with old-fashioned services that have been in place for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has been offering a range of services to help people cope with stress and depression amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Tuesday. The move comes as an increasing number of South Koreans are suffering from the “corona blues,” which refers to depression caused by the coronavirus outbreak [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul metropolitan government on Tuesday restricted access to crowded areas of Han River parks starting at 2 p.m. to help contain the spread of COVID-19. The affected areas are two squares at Yeouido Han River Park, parts of Ttukseom Park and two picnic zones at Banpo Han River Park. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Every autumn, Gu Mi-hoi gathers with her siblings and their families at her mother’s house to celebrate the Chuseok fall harvest holiday. They cook delicacies like “jeon” — meat, fish and vegetables dipped in flour and egg and fried — and enjoy traditional games like “yut nori” while munching [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of self-employed people in South Korea has fallen at a far faster pace in 2020 than last year in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, data showed Tuesday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy had 5.548 million self-employed people as of the end of July, down 127,000 from the same [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount paid out in jobless benefits fell slightly in August from the previous month while the number of employment insurance subscribers increased at a faster rate, data showed Monday. The signs of improvement in the labor market, however, are unlikely to persist this month as the nation tightened [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With South Korean courts moving heaven and earth to cope with the spread of the coronavirus, there was an unusual scene in which a string of court sentencings were provided in the blink of an eye. The final trials in a string of criminal appeal cases that the Daejeon [...]
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, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Car accessory sales are increasing as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on. It is assumed that people are spending more time in their vehicles to avoid physical contact. Online shopping giant 11st reported that over the past two weeks, sales of laptop/book stands for cars and multipurpose seat [...]