SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education said on Friday that schools in Seoul and its surrounding cities will remain online-only until Sept. 20, in accordance with the government’s decision to extend stricter social distancing rules in the area. The measure will apply to all kindergartens, elementary, middle and high schools in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A new service will be introduced featuring autonomous driving robots that will be able to detect people wearing loose masks and ask them to wear them properly, as well as measure body temperatures, and send this data to a central control office. South Korean telecom giant LG Uplus Corp. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Following a strict imposition of social distancing as the coronavirus sweeps across South Korea, people are throwing away increased amounts of plastic waste. The Ministry of Environment temporarily approved the use of disposable materials at restaurants, cafes, and fast food chains in airports and train stations in February to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — More South Koreans have realized the significance of climate change following the coronavirus outbreak and a record-breaking summer monsoon season, a local civic group said Thursday. Green Korea United conducted a survey of 1,500 South Koreans between the ages of 14 and 69, 95.8 percent of whom realized the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Friday decided to extend tougher anti-virus curbs on restaurants, bakeries and coffee shops in the greater Seoul area for another week, as sporadic cluster infections and untraceable cases are still popping up in the densely populated area. Since Sunday, the country began limiting operations of restaurants, [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s finance ministry said Friday it has set aside 170.7 billion won (US$143 million) to help local companies develop homegrown vaccines and treatment drugs next year to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Of the budget, 31.9 billion won will be spent to discover candidate materials for a potential vaccine [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — As the so-called ‘Level 2.5’ social distancing rules have taken effect in South Korea, customers are allowed to consume food and drinks inside bakeries, but not at franchise coffee chains in the Greater Seoul area. The government said that its decision not to include bakeries on the list of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees impacted by the coronavirus outbreak at a logistics center of Coupang Inc., the country’s leading e-commerce operator, last May asked the prosecution to hold those accountable to justice. “Coupang attempted to cover up the mass outbreak as it violated the government’s quarantine instructions,” said the victims of the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 40 percent of people in South Korea diagnosed with the new coronavirus are asymptomatic, a lawmaker said Tuesday, citing recent official data. As of Aug. 25, a total of 17,945 people had tested positive for the virus, with health authorities having checked whether 9,756 of them had relevant [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 2 (Korea Bizwire) —Amid the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea, controversy is heating up over the government’s ban on in-person religious gatherings at churches. Some religious leaders, particularly those who are Protestant Christians with a conservative political ideology, are insisting that banning religious gatherings is a violation of the right [...]