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Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
- Korea rises as production base for COVID-19 vaccines, medication
- Nov 18,2020
- Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Korea is rising as a production base for vaccines and medication. Pictured here are researchers at SK Bioscience on Nov. 15 working at a lab. ...
- President to discuss COVID-19 response at APEC, G20 summits
- Nov 18,2020
- President Moon Jae-in this weekend will attend via videoconferencing summits of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Nov. 20) and the G20 (Nov. 21-22). He is pictured h...
- Failure to wear mask in public to incur KRW 100K fine
- Nov 13,2020
- Failure to wear a mask at multipurpose indoor facilities such as public transportation stations, religious facilities and indoor sports venues from Nov. 13 will incur a f...
- Gov't pledges USD 10M for COVID-19 vaccines to developing nations
- Nov 13,2020
- President Moon Jae-in speaks on Nov. 13 at the second Mekong-ROK (Republic of Korea) Summit through videoconferencing. (Yonhap News) By Lee Kyoung Mi and Lee Jihae ...
- Korea hosts its 1st WB offline workshop since outbreak
- Nov 09,2020
- The workshop "IDA-Korea Workshop on Innovation and Digital Technology in the Post Pandemic World" was held on Nov. 5 at the Shilla Seoul hotel, jointly hosted by the Worl...
- Domestic reagent for diagnosing COVID-19, flu officially approved
- Nov 05,2020
- The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety on Nov. 3 officially approved a domestically made reagent to diagnose both COVID-19 and flu. (Korea.net DB) By Lee Kyoung Mi and L...
- President wears mask with webtoon character at Cabinet meeting
- Nov 04,2020
- President Moon Jae-in on Nov. 3 wears a mask featuring a character from a popular webtoon (online comic) to mark Comics Day in a Cabinet meeting at Cheong Wa Dae. (Cheong...
- Social distancing status to be expanded to 5 levels
- Nov 02,2020
- The social distancing alert status from Nov. 7 will be expanded from three to five levels to prepare for COVID-19 over the long term. Pictured here is Prime Minister Chun...
- Credit Suisse picks Korea as leading investment destination
- Oct 29,2020
- Credit Suisse's Dan Fineman, co-head of equity strategy for Asia Pacific, on Oct. 27 told CNBC that Korea is one of his top picks for investment during the pandemic. (Scr...
- Int'l media spotlights Korea's economic rebound amid COVID-19
- Oct 28,2020
- The Wall Street Journal on Oct. 27 said Korea's GDP in the third quarter grew 1.9% in the article headlined ''Why the U.S. Can’t Replicate South Korea’s Impre...