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No. of Chinese Tourists to Korea Returns to pre-MERS Levels

SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Chinese people visiting South Korea is returning to levels seen before the MERS outbreak in May, data showed Thursday. About 303,000 Chinese people traveled to South Korea in the first 14 days of this month, up 4.8 percent from the same period last year, according to the [...]

Samsung to Fuel Domestic Demand to Overcome “MERS Recession”

SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Group is planning to provide various measures to help overcome the economic recession caused by the outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). On July 2, the largest business group in Korea announced that it had come up with various plans to boost domestic demand that has been [...]