SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pianist Cho Seong-jin appeared online in a casual navy shirt to play a Brahms intermezzo in a well-organized corner of his home in Berlin last week, bringing together millions of classical music fans in a livestreamed show. “Now we are in a very difficult and challenging time, [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are now growing more and more tired of keeping distance other members of society, a means to prevent further spread of COVID-19, as the outbreak continues unabated. The advice of infectious disease experts is that the government’s guidelines should be presented more clearly and in detail to [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is bracing for the possibility of a prolonged novel coronavirus pandemic as it plans to unveil guidelines for citizens to carry out quarantine measures as part of their daily routines. Public health authorities said Monday said that a social dialogue body will be formed this week involving [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will enforce a two-week mandatory quarantine to cover all entrants from overseas over the new coronavirus starting April in a drastic measure to curb a steady rise in imported cases, officials said Sunday. The country reported 105 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the nation’s total to 9,583, [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — All entrants from the United States will be faced with strengthened quarantine measures starting Friday as South Korea grapples with a surge in imported cases of the new coronavirus, health authorities here said Thursday. Starting at midnight, passengers from the U.S. who do not show symptoms of COVID-19 such [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will launch a new cutting-edge system to track the movements of people infected with the novel coronavirus and their contacts more quickly, the land ministry said Wednesday, another powerful tool in the country’s virus fight to help detect potential cases and quarantine COVID-19 patients. The system, which [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government announced Sunday a set of tough “social distancing” measures for civil servants, employees of public organizations and soldiers nationwide, kicking off a two-week intensive campaign against the spread of the coronavirus. The guidelines call for the expansion of telecommuting among public officials, flexible working hours [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will conduct new coronavirus tests on all arrivals from Europe and require them to self-isolate for two weeks as part of ongoing efforts to guard against imported cases of the novel coronavirus, the country’s health authorities said Friday. The measures, to be effective starting Sunday, are the [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of subway lines 1-8, announced Monday that it has taken more than 100,000 measures of disinfecting the subway to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. For 45 days since Jan. 27, when the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention elevated the country’s infectious disease [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday unveiled virus prevention guidelines for confined workplaces and public-use facilities to stem cluster infections of the novel coronavirus following a massive group transmission at a call center in Seoul. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it will distribute the guidelines to those [...]