SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s auto exports more than halved in May from a year earlier due to falling demand in the face of the new coronavirus pandemic that as infected more than 7 million people, data showed Thursday. Local carmakers shipped 95,400 units of cars overseas last month, down 57.6 percent [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Ga-ram, 37, was forced to give up her decadelong annual ritual of having a picture taken of herself in the same spot at Seokchon Lake, one of Seoul’s most popular cherry blossom sites, as access to the park was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. “It is just [...]
London, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) - CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI / MI: CNHI) announced today that, in light of the supply chain constrains caused by the COVID-19 emergency in Europe, it is suspending the majority of its European assembly operations for a two week period. This suspension applies to the Company’s agricultural, construction, commercial and [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A so-called ‘infodemic,’ a swarm of fake information that incites fear of the coronavirus, is undermining efforts to limit the spread of the pandemic. As fake information piles up, people are less likely to find trustworthy information about the infectious disease, inciting fear and conflict among social constituents rather [...]
NAMYANGJU, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, said in a public statement that it had identified geographic locations at varying risk of outbreaks of disease through the application of big data technology. The city government charted a map of the city by combing through 2,072 civilian reports of disease carrying [...]