SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government is pushing for a new international standard based on the country’s quarantine practices to share its experiences with the world. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced Sunday that it will compile all procedures and methods used to fight the coronavirus to create a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Preventive culling measures will be allowed when an epidemic such as African swine fever (ASF) sweeps through wild animal populations. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced plans to amend legislation on livestock epidemic prevention, which will come into effect on May 5. The amendment replaced a [...]
NAMYANGJU, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, said in a public statement that it had identified geographic locations at varying risk of outbreaks of disease through the application of big data technology. The city government charted a map of the city by combing through 2,072 civilian reports of disease carrying [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – When the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome swept Korea earlier this year, Samsung Medical Center was at the center of the epidemic, not as a healing center for the deadly disease, but as the source of the outbreak. Among the 186 patients who contracted MERS, almost half (91) were infected at the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Another epidemic spreads across the world: “Fear-bola.” People around the world are now deeply concerned about the Ebola epidemic in their homes. Mel Robbins, a CNN commentator and legal analyst, has first given it the name Fear-bola. She said, “Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational [...]