SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league may have to wait a few more days before reopening its stadiums to fans again due to a recent spike in novel coronavirus cases in a southern metropolitan city. Gwangju, located 330 kilometers south of Seoul and home of the Kia Tigers in the [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A renewed spike in coronavirus cases in South Korea has focused a growing number of water lovers’ interest on indoor swimming pools. With the number of confirmed coronavirus cases surging in recent weeks, many water park operators have had no choice but to delay their official opening day in [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of North Korean defectors coming into South Korea recorded an all-time low in the second quarter this year due to the new coronavirus, the unification ministry said Wednesday. According to the ministry, 12 defectors were estimated to have entered the country from April to June this year, [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday began providing remdesivir, an experimental drug conventionally used for Ebola, as a treatment drug for the novel coronavirus. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said the medication developed by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences Inc. will be used for COVID-19 patients with [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retailers began to sell thinner anti-saliva face masks at their offline outlets on Wednesday as demand for the masks designed to fight the new coronavirus is growing amid hot weather. Anti-droplet masks hit the shelves at major department stores, discount outlets and convenience stores in a full-fledged [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday launched a mandatory entry log system using QR code-based registration at entertainment facilities, such as clubs and karaoke establishments, a move aimed at enabling health authorities to quickly trace anyone possibly exposed to the new coronavirus at such places. All visitors to such facilities must [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans have been more or less satisfied with so-called ‘untact’ work policies that came about following the coronavirus outbreak. However, most employers were found to shun untact work policies because they collide with the traditional way of work. The Korean Chamber of Commerce conducted a survey of human [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) announced on Tuesday that its community treatment center designed to treat COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms confirmed the potential of ‘untact diagnosis’ through the use of state-of-the-art information technology. The newly-coined term ‘untact’ refers to non-face-to-face contact. SNUH ran a COVID-19 community treatment [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul city is moving to provide emergency relief funds to foreigners living in the capital city that could benefit some 100,000 households, municipal authorities said Tuesday. The city government said that Seoul Metropolitan Council earlier in the day passed a 2.23 trillion-won (US$1.86 billion) extra budget bill that includes [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — One in four South Koreans are inclined to spend more on 5G network services and faster internet connection to better prepare for the coronavirus pandemic, a survey showed on Tuesday. The survey conducted by Ericsson-LG, a joint venture between Sweden-based Ericsson and South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc., showed that [...]