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Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
- President approves huge financial aid package for COVID-19 outbreak
- Mar 19,2020
- President Moon Jae-in on March 19 speaks in the inaugural meeting of an Emergency Economic Council held at Cheong Wa Dae. (Yonhap News) By Lee Hana President Moon...
- WHO chief: Korea did not 'surrender' to COVID-19
- Mar 19,2020
- World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on March 18 lauded Korea for responding effectively to the COVID-19 outbreak in a news conference at...
- Religious groups delay events amid COVID-19 outbreak
- Mar 19,2020
- Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Park Yang-woo (right) on March 18 holds a meeting with Korean Buddhist leaders at a restaurant in Seoul. He asked for their opinio...
- Video of ordinary Koreans fighting COVID-19 earns global praise
- Mar 18,2020
- By Lee Kyoung Mi and Lee Jihae "Heartwarming," "touched," "tears" and "overcome." These are the words most frequently used in the 1,159 comments (as of 3 p.m. on ...
- European media laud Korea's response to COVID-19 outbreak
- Mar 18,2020
- The Spanish daily El Pais on March 16 published the article "Korea, a good example of coping with COVID-19 that Spain could not follow," comparing the government response...
- National Gugak Center posts traditional music videos daily
- Mar 18,2020
- The National Gugak Center since March 17 has uploaded daily gugak (traditional Korean music) performances weekdays on its YouTube channel and official website. (YouTube s...
- School year delayed again due to COVID-19 outbreak
- Mar 18,2020
- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Yoo Eun-hae on March 17 at Government Complex-Seoul announces another delay in the start of the school year, this time to ...
- 17 nations request Korean-made test kits for COVID-19
- Mar 17,2020
- RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) is a testing method developed in Korea that uses DNA to quickly and accurately diagnose the novel coronavirus dis...
- Netizens worldwide hail Korea's response to COVID-19 outbreak
- Mar 16,2020
- A video posted on March 13 by ABC News of the U.S. titled "Volunteers in South Korea deliver boxes of food to people in self-quarantine" has attracted praise from netizen...
- One-person booth for COVID-19 testing launched in Seoul
- Mar 16,2020
- A medical worker on March 16 in Seoul's Gwanak-gu District operates a single-person testing booth for COVID-19. (H-plus Yangji Hospital) By Xu Aiying and Kim Minji ...