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韩政府全力应对新型冠状病毒
韩政府全力应对新型冠状病毒
- COVID-19 vaccination to start in Feb. in Korea
- Dec 28,2020
- Presidential Chief of Staff Noh Young-min on Dec. 27 speaks at a high-level meeting of Cheong Wa Dae, the government and the ruling Democratic Party at the National Assem...
- Gov't secures COVID-19 vaccines via deals with Janssen, Pfizer
- Dec 24,2020
- Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun on Dec. 24 chairs a meeting on responding to the pandemic of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters at Government Compl...
- 3 tech titans form AI alliance to fight COVID-19
- Dec 23,2020
- Woo Kyoung-Gu (left), vice president of the AI Development Group at Samsung Electronics, Kakao Brain CEO Park Seung-ki (middle) and Kim Yoon, chief technology officer at ...
- Pandemic lifts instant noodle exports 30% this year
- Dec 11,2020
- With more people eating at home due to COVID-19, exports of Korean noodles and ramyeon (instant noodles) rose more than 30% from January to October this year. (Yonhap New...
- Convention in Seoul shares Korea's global cooperation experience
- Dec 10,2020
- Participants at the Global Korea Convention 2020 on Dec. 9 pose for photos at the K-Hotel in Seoul's Seocho-gu District. (Convention's Facebook account) By Oh Hyun-woo...
- Online int'l conference discusses responses to COVID-19
- Dec 09,2020
- The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the Korea Development Institute's School of Public Pol...
- Gov't secures vaccines for 44M people next year
- Dec 08,2020
- The government on Dec. 8 said it secured COVID-19 vaccines for 44 million people from a global vaccine project and four international pharmaceutical giants. The photo abo...
- Korea's COVID-19 screening methodology adopted as int'l standard
- Dec 07,2020
- A domestically developed screening methodology for COVID-19 was adopted on Dec. 2 as a global standard by the International Organization for Standardization. (Korea.net D...
- Int'l media cover holding of CSAT amid COVID-19
- Dec 04,2020
- The BBC on Dec. 3 covered the strict quarantine measures Korea took to safely administer its annual College Scholastic Ability Test. (Screen capture from BBC website) ...
- College entrance exam given nationwide amid pandemic
- Dec 03,2020
- By Lee Kyoung Mi, Kim Minji and Lee Jihae Video = Choi Taesoon Seoul | Dec. 3, 2020 The annual College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) was given on Dec. 3 at 1,383 ...