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Convenience Stores to Allow Customers to Buy Electronic Goods with Relief Funds

Convenience Stores to Allow Customers to Buy Electronic Goods with Relief Funds

SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Convenience store chains are competing to entice customers to spend their emergency relief funds, which the government started distributing on Monday. Stores began to come up with various marketing strategies that allow customers to purchase various electronic devices such as wireless earphones or smartwatches with the relief funds. GS25 [...]

Local Migrant Groups Call for Non-discriminatory COVID-19 Relief Aid

Local Migrant Groups Call for Non-discriminatory COVID-19 Relief Aid

SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Local migrant groups on Tuesday called upon the government to come up with a non-discriminatory COVID-19 relief aid program, ahead of an envisioned massive rollout of cash handouts next month. Around 100 migrant groups, including Migrants Center Friend, issued a joint statement demanding the government cover the migrant population [...]

S. Korea Mulls Including Rental Assistance for Virus-hit Merchants in Emergency Handouts

S. Korea Mulls Including Rental Assistance for Virus-hit Merchants in Emergency Handouts

SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is considering providing rental assistance to smaller merchants hard hit by the new coronavirus outbreak, when it will give them another round of emergency handouts next month, people familiar with the matter said Sunday. The move comes as more smaller merchants and self-employed people are facing the [...]

Home Care Workers, After-school Tutors to Receive 500,000 Won in COVID Relief

Home Care Workers, After-school Tutors to Receive 500,000 Won in COVID Relief

SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 90,000 home care workers and after-school tutors will receive 500,000 won (US$458) in coronavirus relief funds from the government in the first half of next year, the labor minister said Monday. The payment is part of a government plan to support essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Labor [...]

Human Rights Agency Rules Excluding Foreigners from Virus Relief Fund is Discrimination

Human Rights Agency Rules Excluding Foreigners from Virus Relief Fund is Discrimination

SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Excluding foreign residents from COVID-19 emergency relief funds in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province is an unjustified act of discrimination, a human rights watchdog said Thursday. The National Human Rights Council of Korea (NHRCK) called on Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and Gyeonggi Province Gov. Lee Jae-myung to take corrective measures [...]