SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will impose heightened social distancing regulations under the second-strongest virus curbs for the greater Seoul area starting on Tuesday as health authorities face the biggest challenge in containing resurgences in virus cases during the winter season. The Level 2.5 distancing, the second highest in the country’s five-tier [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Sunday decided to raise distancing regulations for the greater Seoul area to the second-highest level as part of its utmost efforts to stem a resurgence of the novel coronavirus. The government announced that the Level 2.5 distancing, the second highest in the country’s five-tier COVID-19 alert [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite stronger social distancing measures being rolled out in South Korea resulting from the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, local consumers are showing signs of no panic buying with sales at online shopping malls growing at a marginal rate. Shinsegae Co.’s integrated online shopping mall SSG.COM said that its [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will maintain the current social distancing level in the greater Seoul area but will raise antivirus curbs, including restricting additional gatherings and activities, starting Tuesday, health authorities said Monday. Seoul, the surrounding Gyeonggi Province and the western port city of Incheon will be under the current Level [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Sunday kept the greater Seoul area under Level 2 social distancing measures but raised antivirus curbs in all other areas to Level 1.5, as another wave of the pandemic looms with the upcoming winter season. More stringent anti-virus curbs will be implemented in the wide Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — After the South Korean government started enforcing Level 2 social distancing guidelines for the greater Seoul area from Tuesday, the owners of cafés in these areas are voicing strong complaints about unfair restrictions on business operations. Under the Level 2 social distancing guidelines, cafes are banned from providing indoor [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans in the greater capital area were forced to adjust to toughened social distancing rules Tuesday as cafes banned indoor seating and moviegoers were told to eat popcorn outside theaters. The new Level 2 guidelines took effect at the start of the day after the government raised the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Many aspects of everyday life are again coming to a halt in the greater Seoul area, towards the normally busy year-end season, amid fears of a third wave of the new coronavirus. The area’s social distancing level will be upgraded to the third highest in a five-tier scheme from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Nightclubs and late-night dining will be banned in the greater Seoul area under toughened distancing guidelines, as authorities are scrambling to contain the recent coronavirus flare-up ahead of a nationwide college exam. Health authorities raised the social distancing by one notch to Level 2 in the Seoul metropolitan area [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Sunday decided to enforce tougher distancing regulations for the greater Seoul area and the southwestern region as health authorities try to stem a resurgence of the novel coronavirus. The government announced that the Level 2 distancing, the third-highest in the country’s five-tier COVID-19 alert system, will [...]