SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Tuesday it will apply strict quarantine screening to entrants from Hong Kong and Macao, in addition to those who arrive from mainland China. Currently, entrants from China are asked to fill out health questionnaires to check whether they have fever or respiratory problems. Foreigners are required [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Tuesday it will compensate people who cannot work because they have been placed in self-quarantine as the country makes a concerted effort to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. The Seoul government said it is drawing up a plan to cover living expenses, give work [...]
SEOUL/YEONGJONGDO, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — With the entry ban taking effect Tuesday against non-Korean travelers coming from or through China’s Hubei Province, tensions are running high at Incheon International Airport, the gateway to Seoul, where an army of hundreds of customs and health officials are mobilized at the airport’s three “China-only” arrival counters to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Monday it will adopt more stringent quarantine measures against the new coronavirus by testing those who show symptoms after arriving from China and placing those who have been in contact with confirmed cases into self-quarantine. The measures, to be effective Tuesday, came as the country braces [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Regional authorities are struggling with the lack of quarantine specialists in charge of prevention of African swine fever, avian influenza, and other livestock epidemics. Among 77 positions for government employees in charge of veterinary affairs available at 23 city and county governments in North Gyeongsang Province, only 43 had [...]
YEONCHEON, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A tributary to the Imjin River near the inter-Korean border has been partly polluted with blood from carcasses of pigs that were killed and poorly handled during an operation to curb the spread of African swine fever (ASF). Around 47,000 pig carcasses were piled up on a truck at [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is maintaining the highest level of vigilance as more confirmed cases of African swine fever (ASF) have raised concerns that the deadly animal disease may spread across the country despite all-out disinfection efforts. The agriculture ministry on Monday confirmed one more ASF case, raising the number of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea remained alert on Wednesday to stem the spread of African swine fever across the country after reporting its second confirmed case of the deadly animal disease at a farm near the heavily fortified border with North Korea. The new case at a pig farm in Yeoncheon was [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 80 percent of active sniffer dogs deployed by South Korea’s quarantine agency are cloned, data showed Monday, as activists express their concerns over potential animal abuse. According to the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, 42 of its 51 sniffer dogs were cloned from parent animals as of April, [...]
BUSAN, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An investigation led by the Busan Port Authority (BPA) has revealed that foreign species are flowing into the Busan Port via empty containers shipped from overseas. The BPA conducted a one-month examination of 5,458 empty foreign containers carried out of the port last November. The investigation found live maggots, [...]