SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The greater Seoul area will hold off on implementing the central government’s eased social distancing scheme for one week amid a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases in the region, the local governments said Wednesday, just hours before the new rules were set to take effect. Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Korean workers have been wrestling with the new reality of returning to the office as more businesses scale back the pandemic practice of working from home in line with the government’s new social distancing rules. One office worker who lives in Seoul’s eastern Songpa [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — With social distancing measures and quarantine policies gradually being phased out as a growing number of Koreans are vaccinated, an increasing number of companies are ending work-at-home policies and asking employees to return to the office. While these measures are being welcomed by many, there are concerns over readjusting [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Health authorities on Sunday announced that the greater Seoul area, home to half of the country’s population, will be under Level 2 with eased virus curbs in the new four-tier social distancing system to be enforced next month. Seoul, Gyeonggi Province that surrounds the capital, and Incheon, 40 kilometers [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Sunday unveiled new social distancing rules that center on allowing gatherings of more people and lifting regulations for businesses amid the country’s aggressive inoculation program. Starting July 1, the country will allow gatherings of up to six people in the greater Seoul area, according to the [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Crowd capacity at outdoor sporting events across South Korea will increase beginning Monday, with the national health authorities lifting coronavirus-related restrictions before introducing revamped social distancing guidelines. The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters announced Friday that regions under Level 1.5 distancing in the five-level scheme will be allowed [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Restaurants, cafes and entertainment facilities in the greater Seoul area will be able to open until midnight starting next month as the country is moving to gradually ease virus curbs in line with an accelerating vaccination rate, the health ministry said Friday. Starting in July, restaurants, cafes, karaoke businesses [...]
JEJU, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Island, South Korea’s most popular holiday destination, will raise its anti-COVID-19 social distancing measures by one notch to Level 2 at the end of this month to cope with growing local transmissions of the coronavirus, the provincial government said Friday. The Level 2 posture, the third highest in [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will introduce new COVID-19 social distancing rules in July if the nation’s daily caseload remains below 1,000, health authorities said Friday. The new rules are aimed at imposing fairer restrictions and giving the public a simpler message on containment, officials said. The revamped distancing rules will also [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Friday it will retain its current social distancing measures for another three weeks, including the ban on gatherings of five or more people nationwide, amid spiking virus cases. But as part of measures to curb cluster infections at risk-prone facilities, the operations of bars and nightclubs [...]