After director Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite” made history at the Oscars, everything related to the critically acclaimed 2019 movie is back in the spotlight. Some of the movie quotes, which had gone viral on the internet after the huge success of the film both at home and abroad, were revisited after the homegrown movie topped the...Read More
Filming locations that appeared in director Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece “Parasite” are trending as fans visit the venues in celebration of the film’s historic Oscars win. On Tuesday, fans were busy taking selfies in front of Sky Pizza, a family-run pizzeria that appears as Pizza Age in the black comedy. A placard with Bong’s autograph was...Read More
In a regular press briefing on Wednesday, the KCDC also said that it will designate Hong Kong and Macau outside mainland China as “Contaminated areas” at midnight on February 20 to tighten quarantine inspections. Hong Kong has confirmed cases of community infection due to the increase in the number of patients, and Macau has decided...Read More
South Korea today confirmed one more case of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total here to 28 with 4 of them discharged after being fully recovered. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said the latest patient is a 30-year-od Chinese woman who is an acquaintance of the country’s third confirmed case. The...Read More
Korean government on Feb. 9 held a meeting on responding to the novel coronavirus outbreak and pledged to strengthen measures to preemptively and aggressively prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The Central Disaster Management Headquarters under the Ministry of Interior and Safety will first implement additional measures to prevent the coronavirus from further spreading in...Read More
The world is running out of masks and other protective equipment against the novel coronavirus, the World Health Organization chief warned on Feb.7th. “The world is facing a chronic shortage of personal protective equipment,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the WHO‘s executive board in Geneva. He said he would be speaking to members of the supply...Read More
Korea’s efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus have attracted U.S. media attention. The ABC News video “How airports are trying to prevent coronavirus from spreading” on its official Facebook account has attracted 1.09 million views as of Feb. 7. Uploaded on Jan. 23, it shows news anchor Bob Woodruff traveling from the...Read More
Have you ever heard of an area called Yongsan, located at the heart of Seoul? If you are a traveler who plans to explore other regions of Korea, you may have a chance to visit Yongsan station. You can take KTX and regular trains from Yongsan Station as well as Seoul Station, which is famous...Read More
K-pop superstar BTS defeated Justin Bieber this week to become the longest-running artists atop Billboard’s Social 50 chart, the American pop magazine said today. “A long-standing record on Billboard’s Social 50 chart has been broken, as BTS spends its 164th week atop the list dated Feb. 8,” besting Justin Bieber’s 163, Billboard said on its...Read More
What is the Global Health Security Index of South Korea? According to the 2019 Global Health and Safety Index of Johns Hopkins University, Korea scored 70.2 points in full 100 points, ranking ninth among 195 countries. Among Asian countries, it is second next to Thailand, which receives 73.2 points. The country with the highest Global...Read More
