SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju Island is working with the private sector to launch a drone delivery service to distribute protective masks to residents living on remote islands without a proper mask supplier. Jeju Province and Doosan Mobility Innovation distributed 1,200 protective masks to residents on Gapa, Mara, and Biyang islands on Thursday [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — While unexpected cluster infections and coronavirus blues continue to dispirit people here, there’s at least one thing they no longer have to fret about: buying face masks. Nearly a month into the government’s mask rationing system, supply has loosened up in many neighborhoods across the capital, sparing people from [...]
DAEJEON, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Local university students have decided to start a movement to share protective masks with foreign students struggling to purchase them. Students at Woosong University in the central city of Daejeon set up a donation box on the school campus on Tuesday and began activities to share protective masks to [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government said Tuesday that it will provide a total of 100,000 filter replaceable face masks to foreign residents who are sidelined from the government-controlled mask supply system amid the coronavirus outbreak. According to the municipal government, 100,000 sets of a reusable cotton mask with five filters [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean conglomerates are using their global networks and resources to help provide quarantine supplies here, industry insiders said Wednesday, as they step up support for the country’s fight against the novel coronavirus. Major business groups like Samsung and LG have already donated cash and offered their facilities to [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Salvation Army’s charity pots, which are typically used as fundraising boxes to help the needy at the end of each year, have been transformed into donation boxes for quarantine supplies to overcome the COVID-19 outbreak. The Salvation Army based in South Korea is carrying out a mask donation [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the coronavirus outbreak, parents are scrambling over protective masks as the first day of the new school year approaches on March 23. Schools in North Chungcheong Province, for instance, have 460,000 protective masks in stock, which is the minimum amount required in accordance with quarantine standards. The masks [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Masks and hand sanitizers are rising as essential goods as the Wuhan coronavirus is spreading worldwide. Experts are concerned, however, that soaring prices as well as a prolonged epidemic may hurt impoverished seniors, job seekers, and other citizens. Consumers Korea, a local civic group, examined the average price of [...]