SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Grand Park, one of the biggest parks in the Seoul metropolitan area, is set to reopen its indoor zoo this month after it was closed due to the new coronavirus, officials said Saturday. The park’s indoor zoo and botanical garden will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Civic groups have petitioned the Constitutional Court to declare that the government’s massive collection of mobile phone data for contact tracing to stem the spread of COVID-19 was unconstitutional. The five groups led by two influential civic groups — MINBYUN-Lawyers for a Democracy Society and People’s Solidarity for Participatory [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s shutdown of borders may help prevent the spread of the coronavirus but is likely to increase the mortality rates of those with chronic illnesses as the border closure could lead to shortages of medicines and other necessities, a professor said Friday. Lee Yo-han, a public health professor [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of damaged banknotes found in South Korea grew slightly from a year earlier in the first six months of the year, with some people trying to sanitize their money, apparently using the wrong methods, amid fears of the new coronavirus, central bank data showed Friday. In the [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has intensified antivirus efforts in Pyongyang by installing more guard posts to restrict access to the capital city, state media reported Friday after leader Kim Jong-un sealed off a border town following the return of a defector from South Korea. North Korea declared a state of emergency [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Manufacturing jobs in South Korea decreased at the fastest rate in a decade last month as the coronavirus pandemic continued to weigh down the export-driven economy, government data showed Thursday. According to the labor ministry’s monthly report, the total number of workers on nonagricultural payrolls in June stood at [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Three Vietnamese nationals who were arrested earlier this week after escaping from a COVID-19 quarantine facility in Gimpo, west of Seoul, are facing deportation for breaching the Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Act, police said Thursday. The three Vietnamese, identified only as men in their 20s, are accused of [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the education ministry has decided to encourage universities to have their foreign students take courses remotely in their home countries in the second semester. The ministry announced on Wednesday that it will carry out foreign student protection and management measures for the [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of cases where the coronavirus is being imported from overseas has prompted the government to apply stricter management of all incoming travelers subject to a two-week quarantine. Since April, all travelers coming from overseas have been required to self-quarantine for two weeks, regardless of nationality. Incoming [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will push to extend stay permits for foreign migrant workers who cannot return home due to the coronavirus pandemic, in a bid to relieve seasonal labor shortages in farming and other areas, a government agency said Wednesday. The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters said that it [...]