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...

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...

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...

Mar 19,2020

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Mar 18,2020

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...

Mar 17,2020

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...

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 ...

Mar 16,2020