SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has started full-fledged coronavirus antibody tests to determine the true extent of infections in the country, a senior health official said Tuesday. “Serology tests are being conducted on blood samples of 3,055 people to find out how many people have immunity against the novel coronavirus,” Kwon Joon-wook, [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government’s response to the novel coronavirus is favorably appreciated by people around the world, a survey showed Tuesday. Commissioned by the Joongmin Foundation for Social Theory, a Seoul-based liberal institute, the survey was conducted by Rakuten Insight Surveys on 15,312 people living in 30 cities across [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — When fans return to baseball stadiums sometime in July, they will be asked to sit apart from one another to maintain a safe distance. And they’ll not be allowed to bring in any outside food. This will be part of a new normal in fan experience in the Korea [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread throughout the Greater Seoul Metropolitan Area, almost all major beaches in South Korea are expected to open next month. The government and local authorities in charge of the beaches are scrambling to come up with ideas for quarantine at the beach. Gangwon Province’s Gyeongpo [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of corporate employees in South Korea fell last month as the new coronavirus pandemic continued to weigh down on the job market, data showed Monday. The number of employees at domestic businesses employing one or more people reached 18.3 million as of the last working day of [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will start compiling big data from the clinical and genome information of 10,000 people, health authorities said Monday. The two-year national pilot project that will run through 2021 will cover data on people with genetic anomalies and those with rare diseases that are linked to their genome. [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The emergence of so-called ‘untact’ culture that came with the spread of the coronavirus is having an impact on consumption trends. South Korean logistics giant CJ Logistics Corp. studied data from parcel deliveries in March and April of this year to discover that single-person vehicles gained massive popularity as [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — More than six months into the new coronavirus pandemic, wearing a face mask in public has become an everyday norm here. Starting last month, the government tightened rules by mandating face masks on all buses, taxis and subways and allowing drivers to refuse passengers without masks. But as the [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The new coronavirus pandemic will likely have a lasting effect on various ways of life, such as where and how people shop, possibly leading to permanent changes in the global economy and trade, a central bank report suggested Monday. Some of the changes may be for the better for [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean professional sports leagues on Sunday welcomed the government decision to reopen stadiums to fans, albeit on a limited basis, and vowed to ensure safe experience for their fans. Baseball, football and golf have been in action since May during the coronavirus pandemic, but fans haven’t been able [...]