CHUNCHEON, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Various summer festivities held in the Gangwon and Chuncheon regions are making a quick transition into online or dispersed platforms as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on. Organizers of the Chuncheon Puppet Festival, which was originally scheduled for six days starting on Sept. 4, decided to extend the [...]
HONGSEONG, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Chungcheong Province has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based ‘unmanned thermometer system’, which will be set up at Boryeong’s Daecheon Beach this month. With this system, visitors can have their body temperature measured without having to leave their car, preventing unnecessary physical contact with quarantine staff, prior to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it has set up an in-house virus testing center to ramp up its anti-virus measures amid the pandemic. Samsung opened a virus testing center inside its plant in Hwaseong, south of Seoul, becoming the first company in South Korea to have an in-house COVID-19 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — An absolute majority of South Korea’s new coronavirus patients aged under 50 have recovered from the disease without receiving oxygen therapy, a study showed Monday. The study of 3,060 COVID-19 patients across South Korea, conducted by the National Medical Center, said only 1.2 percent of patients below the age [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The new coronavirus outbreak has given a big boost to domestic travel here amid disrupted air travel. But for some vacationers, visiting tourist attractions or using lodging facilities could still be the last thing they want to do. Against this backdrop, a new non-contact travel trend has gained traction [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Vietnamese government allowed a group of South Korean business people to enter the country through the Hanoi’s main international airport despite its coronavirus entry ban on foreigners, a South Korean business lobby group said Friday. This was the first time that the Vietnamese government opened the capital-based airport [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean consumers purchased far fewer nonessential items in the first quarter than normal due to economic uncertainty sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Sunday. The combined essential spending came to 84.81 trillion won (US$71 billion) in the January-March period, accounting for 40.56 percent of total household expenditures, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Iran have agreed to launch a working group on expanding humanitarian trade as part of efforts to maintain bilateral partnership within the scope of a U.S.-approved sanctions exemption, a source close to the matter said Sunday. The director general-level consultation aims to discuss on a regular [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s economy contracted 3.3 percent in the second quarter from a quarter earlier, but it fared well compared with other major economies, data showed Sunday. South Korea’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate was the second highest among the 14 countries that included the United States, China, Germany [...]
SUWON, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The leader of a minor religious sect at the center of the early coronavirus outbreak in South Korea was arrested early Saturday for allegedly obstructing the government’s efforts to contain the spread of the pandemic. A local court in Suwon, south of Seoul, issued an arrest warrant for Lee [...]