National Affairs
COVID-19 vaccination to start in Feb. in Korea
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...
Dec 28,2020
Gov't secures COVID-19 vaccines via deals with Janssen, Pfizer
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...
Dec 24,2020
3 tech titans form AI alliance to fight COVID-19
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 ...
Dec 23,2020
Pandemic lifts instant noodle exports 30% this year
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...
Dec 11,2020
Convention in Seoul shares Korea's global cooperation experience
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...
Dec 10,2020
Online int'l conference discusses responses to COVID-19
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...
Dec 09,2020
Gov't secures vaccines for 44M people next year
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...
Dec 08,2020
Korea's COVID-19 screening methodology adopted as int'l standard
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...
Dec 07,2020
Int'l media cover holding of CSAT amid COVID-19
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) ...
Dec 04,2020
College entrance exam given nationwide amid pandemic
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 ...
Dec 03,2020