On July 27, the Korean government, represented by Ambassador Han Dong-man, turned over medical supplies worth at least $750,000 to the Philippine government through Foreign Affairs Sec. Teodoro Locsin Jr. Donated were 600,000 high-quality KF94 masks worth $500,000 from the Korean government, seven walk-through COVID-19 testing booths worth $150,000 from the Korean government via the...Read More
South Korea plans to charge foreign patients infected with COVID-19 for their hospitalization and treatment costs, amid a surge in the number of imported cases involving foreign nationals. “We will make foreign patients pay the whole or part of the cost for their hospitalization, but will do so under the principle of reciprocity considering diplomatic...Read More
Changes made to the points-based residency visa requirements, which will go into effect Dec. 1, are meant to advantage a “superior pool of foreigners” and to mitigate the negative impact of the “overuse” of low-income foreign workers on the South Korean labor market, the Ministry of Justice said Wednesday. The newly revised rules for the...Read More
Lee Min-hye, 37, who works for a trading company in Seoul, used to take an overseas trip every year for her summer vacation, visiting exotic places to get away from the bustling city life. This summer, she was planning a trip to the Grand Canyon and western U.S. cities with her husband, looking forward to...Read More
Oxford University in the United Kingdom is currently developing the COVID-19 vaccine, and it turns out that antibodies have been created to protect the virus from all those vaccinated. Inject the COVID-19 gene into a virus that acts as a harmless carrier for the human body. When the virus comes into contact with fibrous tissue...Read More
At least three COVID-19 cases of secondary transmission from imported infections were confirmed across South Korea, health authorities said Friday, as the government grapples with a continued influx of the coronavirus infections from overseas. “There were some three to four cases involving those who came from overseas, which led to secondary transmission in the local...Read More
In a bid to curb the continuing rise in imported new coronavirus cases, South Korea plans to put more countries on its list of nations under tougher anti-virus quarantine measures, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said Wednesday. “(The government) will make a decision today that will additionally designate countries with higher (virus) import risks as nations...Read More
Moderna Inc’s experimental vaccine for COVID-19 showed it was safe and provoked immune responses in all 45 healthy volunteers in an ongoing early-stage study, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. Volunteers who got two doses of the vaccine had high levels of virus-killing antibodies that exceeded the average levels seen in people who had recovered from...Read More
South Korea said Wednesday it has adopted an alert system on the country’s 50 major beaches that will ban the entry of additional visitors in crowded areas to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. Under the measure, authorities will issue the “red” alert when the number of visitors at beaches exceeds the level in...Read More
South Korea reported 50 new COVID-19 cases Thursday, with the government on alert over new clusters of infections linked to religious facilities in Daejeon and Gwangju. Of the new cases, 28 were locally transmitted and the rest imported from overseas, pushing the country’s total caseload to 13,293, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control...Read More
