SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it has globally expanded its support program for mask manufacturers so that more protective equipment can be produced against the novel coronavirus. The South Korean tech giant said it recently sent engineers to Polish mask producer PTAK and shared its production know-how. By enhancing [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A man was arrested for physically assaulting a bus driver who demanded the man wear a face mask to ride the bus, police said Monday, in the first arrest case for a violation of mandatory mask use against COVID-19. The police in the city’s northeastern ward of Gwangjin said [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — If used face masks could be disinfected, and then possibly reused, that would be a good thing for people suffering shortages of masks. South Korea’s two largest electronics firms — Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. — are saying that their clothes refreshers can disinfect face masks using [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — No signs of major disruptions such as long queues of customers were spotted at drugstores nationwide Monday, the first day South Korea lifted the designated day-only purchase rule in its protective mask rationing aimed at containing the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting Monday, South Koreans are entitled to buy three government-distributed [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has expanded the range of family members living abroad who are able to receive masks posted from South Korea. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced that members of the public can also buy and send masks to brothers, sisters, daughters-in-law and sons-in-law living abroad, from [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said Monday that its “Win-Win Cooperation” project is paying off in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the government, the daily production of four mask makers, backed by smart factory technology from Samsung Electronics Co., jumped 51 percent to 1.39 million [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — While the spread of the coronavirus continues, a very touching story in which a citizen donated masks to a local police station, has moved the hearts of Korean citizens. On Sunday morning, an individual visited Samyang Police Substation, a division of the Seoul Gangbuk Police Station, with a visible [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday it has begun supplying imported filters to local mask producers amid lingering shortages of the items in the country following the spread of the new coronavirus that has infected more than 9,000 here. The 2.5 tons of imported melt-blown nonwoven fabric filters will be supplied [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung Group is focusing its efforts to overcome the crisis caused by the coronavirus. As the country continues to struggle from a shortage of protective masks, Samsung announced Tuesday that it has set out to donate 330,000 protective masks acquired from overseas and support mask [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that a KF94 mask sterilized with steam can be reused and maintains a 99.9 percent filtering efficiency even after having been sterilized. The experiment was part of a bid to test the argument that if a used mask is treated with steam for 20 [...]