DAEGU, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Asian countries are sending messages of encouragement via social media to the city of Daegu, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in South Korea. A post on the official Facebook account of the Korea Tourism Organization Office in Taipei, cheering for Daegu’s quick recovery, was met by hundreds of [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Local authorities across the country are pushing to help the city of Daegu as it struggles to acquire enough hospital beds for coronavirus patients. “We will accept patients from Daegu with mild coronavirus infections to be treated at the Bitgoeul Hospital and Chonnam Gwangju Second Geriatric Hospital both operated [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A story of young doctors wanting to go back on duty after being quarantined for being in contact with a coronavirus patient is moving the hearts of the public. Thirteen of 48 interns at Kyungpook National University Hospital in country’s southeastern city of Daegu, where hundreds of COVID-19 infections [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Daegu citizens are working together on social media to prop up local businesses, which have been hit hard by the rapidly growing coronavirus outbreak. A Facebook page introducing restaurants in Daegu posted Friday that many establishments are losing money due to the COVID-19 epidemic. These restaurants saw their sales [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean airlines have suspended or plan to halt flights to the country’s southeastern city of Daegu, where hundreds of new coronavirus infections have been reported over the weekend. Korean Air Lines Co., the country’s biggest full-service carrier, canceled its flights to Daegu from the southern resort island of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — With a number of coronavirus infections confirmed to be linked to a church in the southeastern city of Daegu, fears over going to crowded religious services are growing across the country. South Korea reported a total of 104 patients infected with the COVID-19 virus as of Thursday afternoon, with [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) has banned “non-essential” travel to and from South Korea’s southeastern city of Daegu and shut down all of its children-related facilities there in the wake of a surge in new coronavirus cases in the region. Since Wednesday, South Korea has confirmed more than 70 additional [...]
SEOUL/DAEGU, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean city of Daegu is on alert as concerns over the new coronavirus are peaking in line with a surge in patients, with many of them suspected of contracting the potentially fatal virus at a church associated with a minor religious sect. On Thursday, South Korea reported [...]
DAEGU, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Daegu Metropolitan Government said Monday that it will lay the foundation for data-based administrative innovation as it completes a project dubbed “Building a Big Data Integration Platform.” Daegu was selected in May of last year for the first time in the country in the Ministry of the Interior [...]
DAEGU, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Every end of July, the city of Daegu holds its signature Chimac (combination of chicken and beer in Korean) Festival to fight off summer heat. The festival gathered more than 270,000 people over just three days when it first began in 2013, and won the title of Daegu’s most [...]