SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A 37-year-old worker referred to only as Kim was asked to leave right after he brought his wife and new-born twins to rest at a postnatal care center. After the resurgence of COVID-19 in South Korea in recent days, the nation’s postnatal care centers shifted their policy towards banning [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea called off annual field training for reserve forces for the first time in 52 years Friday as the country has been struggling with a recent sharp surge in coronavirus cases. The training sessions for the country’s 2.75 million-strong forces were supposed to kick off in September in a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is moving to secure a sufficient supply of coronavirus vaccines through close international cooperation and local development, the government said Friday. The move comes as countries around the world have been racing to find drugs that can combat the pandemic that has killed more than 796,000 around [...]
JEJU, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are scrambling to move to Jeju Island following the second wave of the coronavirus outbreak. The Statistics Korea’s population mobility data showed that 568 people left Jeju Province in the first quarter this year, which was reversed after 705 people moved to Jeju in the following quarter. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean pop culture is gaining popularity in India, where the so-called Korean wave has always struggled to make inroads. With the onslaught of the coronavirus, Indians are beginning to find new interest in Korean entertainment as they are forced to stay indoors. For long, India’s Bollywood and the country’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday it has decided to close down Haeundae Beach and other beaches in the southeastern port city of Busan due to the soaring number of locally transmitted new coronavirus cases. Under the decision, the Busan government will shut down the seven beaches in the city, effective [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government on Thursday announced a plan to ban street rallies of 10 or more people across the capital amid mounting concerns over a resurgence in new coronavirus cases here. Under the move that will go into effect Friday, all demonstrations with 10 or more participants will [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based model that can predict the number of foreign COVID-19 cases entering the country. Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology announced on Wednesday that it had developed a new AI model that was capable [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — After remaining relatively COVID-19 free compared to the film and music industries, the broadcasting industry at last fell prey to the resurgence of coronavirus cases in the Seoul metropolitan area. CBS Radio, a Christian broadcasting station based in Seoul, shut down its studios after a reporter who appeared on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s multiplex chain GGV said Wednesday that it has suspended its ticket booking service to reduce seating capacities at screenings as part of precautionary measures against the spread of COVID-19. From Tuesday, CGV, a movie theater operating unit of entertainment giant CJ Group, started to sell tickets for [...]