SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s transportation ministry is considering lifting the curfew for arrivals at Incheon International Airport, the main gateway to the country, from July at the earliest, as part of efforts to return to pre-pandemic normalcy, sources said Tuesday. Currently, there are no arrival flights allowed at Incheon Airport from [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The government decided Friday to raise the private gathering size limit to 10 people and relax the business hour curfew on restaurants and cafes to midnight, Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said. The new social distancing rules will go into effect Monday for two weeks. Should the situation remain stable [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will push back the anti-COVID-19 business curfew on cafes, restaurants and other multiuse facilities by an hour to 11 p.m. starting Saturday, Interior Minister Jeon Hae-cheol said. Despite soaring infections, the government decided to extend the operating hours for 12 kinds of multiuse facilities in an effort [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The government decided to push back the curfew on cafes and restaurants by one hour to 10 p.m. while keeping the private gathering size limit at six starting this weekend, Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said Friday. The easing of the social distancing rules comes despite a massive surge in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of cafes and restaurants in commercial districts in Seoul have defiantly stayed lit up past midnight in collective action protesting the government’s 9 p.m. anti-COVID-19 business curfew. Small bistros lining the Baekhack traditional marketplace in central Seoul, and restaurants and food vendors on a food street near [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Many university student residences located in Seoul have been called on to revise the so-called “no curfew” rule, which is required by students. The student council of Sookmyung Women’s University recently conducted a survey on dormitory rules. As a result, 88.7 percent of the respondents said they did not [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Until recently, the 400-meter-long road along the presidential compound Cheong Wa Dae was dotted with checkpoints, barricades and plain-clothed policemen who would hurl a vexing, if not rude, question to passers-by, “Where are you going?” The heavily guarded trail kept conjuring up the aloof, high-handed image of a president [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting next week, anyone, including foreign tourists, will be able to drive or walk near South Korea’s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae at all hours, the office announced Thursday. Currently, the only road leading to Cheong Wa Dae is closed off to public access from 8 p.m. to 5:30 [...]