LONDON, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Informa Pharma Intelligence, today announces an upcoming free 24-hour interactive webinar series entitled COVID-19 24-hour Web Event: Lessons Learned and a Path Forward. The event will cover the latest insights and learnings on COVID-19 from across the global pharma and biomedtech industries, starting at 9:00 am BST on July 21st, 2020. [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Nine in 10 South Koreans fear they could be discriminated against following the coronavirus outbreak, a poll said Tuesday, indicating the pandemic may have heightened public sensitivity to discrimination. In the poll of 1,000 adults nationwide by the National Human Rights Commission, 91.1 percent said they agree to the [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education on Tuesday extended a measure to reduce classroom crowding until the end of the first semester, as the country continued to see a worrisome uptick in coronavirus cases in Seoul and its adjacent cities. The ministry said the measure to cap the number of students [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Shincheonji, a minor religious sect, said Tuesday that it will donate blood plasma of thousands of its congregants who have recovered from the novel coronavirus to support the development of a vaccine or drug to treat the virus. “The government has helped us a lot, having our followers treated,” [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Coffee delivery services are not an unfamiliar concept in South Korea. Serving persons at tea houses, or “dabang” in Korean, used to deliver cups of coffee filled with sugar and cream on foot. Big-name coffee chains such as Starbucks and small independent cafes replaced such tea houses by offering [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two leading duty-free operators started to sell duty-free products through local retail channels Tuesday, as the government has decided to temporarily permit such sales to help the pandemic-hit sector. Industry leader Lotte Duty started to release duty-free items, including foreign luxury brands, worth 10 billion won (US$8.3 [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, said Tuesday it will open a contactless store in October in line with growing demand for non-face-to-face services amid the coronavirus pandemic. The new store, which is set to open in central Seoul, will provide services such as selling USIM [...]
DAEGU, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Daegu, once the epicenter of South Korea’s new coronavirus outbreak, filed a civil damage suit against a fringe religious sect for allegedly causing mass infections by hindering the city’s quarantine efforts, the city said Tuesday. The city, the country’s fourth-largest with 24.3 million people, filed the suit with the [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea began to suspend visa issuance and non-scheduled flights to restrict entry from Pakistan and Bangladesh Tuesday in the face of a spike in new coronavirus cases imported from the two nations. The government decided on Sunday to stop issuing new visas to nationals of Pakistan and Bangladesh, [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the outbreak of the coronavirus dealing a major blow to the world economy, South Korea’s notebook PC makers reported better-than-expected first-quarter results in the domestic market primarily thanks to the ubiquity of online classes and the increase in telecommuting. Of note, LG Electronics Inc. enjoyed a sharp increase [...]