SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The deputy commander of the U.S.-led United Nations Command has praised South Korea’s handling of the new coronavirus and thanked the country for providing masks to Korean War veterans around the world. Vice Adm. Stuart Mayer made the comments as he joined “the COVID-19 Blueberry Challenge” initiated by the [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will provide 370,000 face masks to Koreans adopted overseas to help them fight the new coronavirus, the foreign ministry said Sunday. Starting Monday, 210,000, or 60 percent of the total, will be sent to the United States, where the number of Korean adoptees is the largest, and [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The limit on the number of protective masks that one can send to family members overseas will be lifted as mask supply is stabilizing in South Korea after a major crisis in March, the customs office said Monday. The Korea Customs Service (KCS) announced Monday that it will increase the [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will provide 10,000 masks and other health protective items to Native Americans who fought in the 1950-53 Korean War to help them combat the new coronavirus, the veterans affairs ministry said Monday. The 70th Anniversary of the Korean War Commemoration Committee will deliver the masks and hand [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s biggest airline, said Friday it will require all passengers on domestic routes to wear masks on board beginning next week. Korean Air has joined its global peers, like United Airlines Inc. and American Airlines Inc., to adopt the rules requiring masks to stem [...]
WASHINGTON, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday sent 500,000 face masks to help Korean War veterans in the United States fight COVID-19, the South Korean Embassy here said. The masks arrived aboard a South Korean Air Force aircraft at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, and officials from both sides were present to receive [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Subway passengers in Seoul will be required to wear face masks during crowded hours starting this week as the city government seeks to curb community transmissions of the new coronavirus, the city government said Monday. The Seoul metropolitan government unveiled a set of measures that will begin being implemented [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — On the premise of stable domestic supply and demand, the government said Thursday that it has decided to export locally made masks overseas for humanitarian purposes. Through expanded support, the government expects to contribute to overcoming the crisis of the coronavirus pandemic, which has spread around the world, and [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea seeks to provide protective masks to foreign Korean War veterans vulnerable to the new coronavirus, a foreign ministry official said Monday, amid its efforts to contribute more to tackling the global health care crisis. The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs (MPVA) and the Ministry of Food [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Protective masks, which were once in high demand following the coronavirus outbreak, are recovering to pre-coronavirus levels of supply. According to ‘Mask Notifier’, an app that shows the current stock of protective masks available at drug stores, 77.6 percent of pharmacies nationwide had more than 100 protective masks in [...]