SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Online liquor sales are soaring as a growing number of South Koreans are choosing to drink at home following a record-setting monsoon season and surge in new coronavirus cases. Convenience store chain CU reported that pre-ordered wine sales between Aug. 1 and 16 jumped more than fivefold compared to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Couples who postponed their wedding last spring following the coronavirus outbreak have been dealt a cruel hand with the onset of a second wave of infections. Many couples postponed their wedding hoping that the coronavirus would eventually die off in the summer, a dream that is going up in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — It is no secret that South Koreans love drinking coffee at cafes. Sitting with an iced latte in an air-conditioned cafe can be luxuriously comfortable. But when it comes to fighting the coronavirus, the country’s coffee craze could be a hurdle, as coffee shops are emerging as a hotbed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Small merchants and local retailers are facing another business setback as South Korea’s stricter social distancing, adopted following a spike in new coronavirus infections, could prompt people to refrain from visiting restaurants and other offline outlets. South Korea has reported nearly 1,300 new cases of COVID-19 in the past [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Virgil Hodges, a longtime fan of the Hanwha Eagles in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), missed watching baseball in person so much this spring that he would stop during his daily runs to see a recreational league game in his neighborhood in Daejeon. He would stay for an inning [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A new report has revealed that if strong lockdown measures are taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, which has recently seen a resurgence in South Korea, on third the country’s workers would have difficulty in conducting normal economic activities. In a report issued on Tuesday, the Bank [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Bracing itself for another round of the new coronavirus outbreak, South Korea opted to tighten anti-virus curbs, such as expanding tougher measures to outside the greater Seoul area and banning in-person worship services at churches, in last-ditch efforts to curb a new flare-up in virus cases. The country on [...]
DAEGU, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been six months since the outbreak of the first coronavirus infection in Daegu. Daegu, once known as one of the biggest coronavirus hotspots in the world, is now being commended as a successful model case for containing the pandemic, gaining the world’s attention. As of Sunday, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — With a growing number of South Koreans tapping into online transactions due to the coronavirus pandemic, a recent survey has revealed that preferred mobile applications for online transactions differ by age groups. Market researcher Nielsen KoreanClick reported Monday that Coupang topped usage among all age groups. The rankings that [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – An increasing number of South Korean tech companies began to allow their employees to work from home again as a precautionary measure amid the resurgence of novel coronavirus infections, industry officials said Tuesday. On Sunday, the government raised social distancing in Seoul and its neighboring areas by one notch [...]