SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost 75 percent of people in the top 1 percent of the earned income tier work at companies located in greater Seoul area, indicating severe inequality between regions in terms of job quality, data showed Monday. Rep. Kim Hoi-jae of the Democratic Party received reports from the National Tax [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The greater Seoul area will hold off on implementing the central government’s eased social distancing scheme for one week amid a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases in the region, the local governments said Wednesday, just hours before the new rules were set to take effect. Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Health authorities on Sunday announced that the greater Seoul area, home to half of the country’s population, will be under Level 2 with eased virus curbs in the new four-tier social distancing system to be enforced next month. Seoul, Gyeonggi Province that surrounds the capital, and Incheon, 40 kilometers [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan area will implement more stringent antivirus measures on virus-prone facilities and expand testing on foreign workers at industrial complexes in the area to better contain the coronavirus, the health authority said Tuesday. Health authorities said they will closely monitor 30 multi-use facilities, including parks, amusement parks, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tougher anti-virus curbs in place in the greater Seoul area will be extended by another week, with additional measures starting Monday, as the country seeks to contain another wave of the virus outbreak in the densely populated region. The country’s eight-day restrictions on restaurants, bakeries and franchise [...]