SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Like many other self-employed professionals here, Julia Mellor, an Australian specialist in traditional Korean alcoholic drinks, is striving hard to keep her business running, afflicted by COVID-19 and strict social distancing restrictions. Mellor wouldn’t just wait for the pandemic to be over. She is responding to drawn-out unpredictability by [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Friday that it will begin to restrict operations of restaurants, bakeries and franchise coffee chains in the greater Seoul area this weekend in the latest move to contain the fast spread of the new coronavirus. Under the plan set to take effect Sunday, restaurants and bakeries [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Group, South Korea’s third-largest conglomerate, said Friday it will offer its four training institutes as treatment centers for novel coronavirus patients in the greater Seoul area in a move to support local health authorities in securing more hospital beds. SK Academy in Yongin, south of Seoul, and its [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent spike in new coronavirus cases has dealt another heavy blow to the South Korean film industry, pushing distributors to postpone the release of titles set to hit theaters next month. Distributor Merry Christmas said Thursday that it will put off the premier of the science-fiction adventure “Space [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Taiwan has strengthened entry restrictions for visitors from South Korea, citing the resurgence in the virus outbreak mostly in the greater Seoul area. South Korea was taken off from Taiwan’s list of foreign countries relatively less prone to coronavirus infection, and business travelers arriving in Taiwan from the South [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of international students studying in South Korea fell for the first time in six years in 2020, due mainly to the coronavirus outbreak, government data showed Thursday. According to the data released by the Ministry of Education, there were 153,695 foreign students enrolled at domestic universities and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With a surge in confirmed coronavirus cases in South Korea, major universities in Seoul are choosing to give lectures online for the second semester, resulting in disappointment among freshmen. Following Yonsei University’s decision to hold all lectures online until October, Konkuk University and Kyunghee University also decided to hold [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will adopt a remote working system for some of its employees in South Korea following a resurgence of coronavirus cases in the country. Employees who apply for Samsung’s remote working program will be able to work from home starting next month. The company [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Many government bodies in South Korea, including those in all major metropolitan areas, have made it mandatory to wear a mask both indoor and outdoor as a part of efforts to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Nonetheless, voices are growing that it’s difficult to crack down on people [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Group, South Korea’s top conglomerate, said Wednesday it will offer its training institutes to be used as treatment centers for novel coronavirus patients in the greater Seoul area in a move to support local health authorities in securing more hospital beds. Samsung Fire & Marine Life Insurance Co.’s [...]