SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Wearing a face mask has become a daily routine for many South Koreans as the country continues to fight the new coronavirus that has infected more than 5,000 here so far. As the outbreak continues, masks that used to cost less than 1,000 won (US$0.84) in online bulk sales [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is making all-out efforts to improve the supply of face masks as the country’s novel coronavirus situation worsens, but public anger is running high over its hastily orchestrated supply scheme. The country last week approved a plan to limit face mask exports to a maximum of 10 [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will take millions of face masks from schools and redistribute them to the general public in order to address a supply shortage amid the surge of coronavirus cases. The education ministry announced Sunday that 5.8 million out of 12.7 million masks purchased by elementary, middle and high [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government distributed nearly 4.5 million face masks via public organizations nationwide Saturday to fight a sharp supply shortage amid the surging coronavirus. To purchase face masks, many people lined up in front of pharmacies and marts operated by the agricultural cooperative Nonghyup as the government intervened to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Many South Koreans, increasingly concerned over the fast-spreading new coronavirus, are queuing and nimbly logging on to online shopping malls to purchase protective masks, but they are being frustrated by a hastily-orchestrated state scheme. Many citizens expected to buy state-supplied face masks from Thursday at designated outlets, but most [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has strengthened its crackdown on travelers’ attempts to smuggle out face masks in bulk to fight the new coronavirus, officials said Saturday, with the customs office confiscating the protective goods and imposing fines when perpetrators are found. Since Thursday, people who seek to take face masks from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The supply of facial masks has not met demand in South Korea, with some industry watchers blaming Chinese tourists and merchants for going on a buying binge here to protect themselves from a new coronavirus. South Korea is not an exception to the global phenomenon of people buying face [...]