The government must create a manual to ensure efficiency and fairness in implementing its cash handout policy next time.
The government disbanded the central authority dedicated to Covid-19 management on Friday, marking the end of a four-year-long pandemic response.
The government is considering deleting overdue debt records for small business owners and people in vulnerable classes that had piled up during the Covid-19 pandemic.
For more than two years, Leon Haynes, a New Jersey tax preparer, told some of his clients that the federal government was giving out “free money” in the form of pandemic relief to people who owned businesses. According to federal prosecutors...
Korea will lower the status of Covid-19 to that of the common flu starting next Thursday. According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) on Wednesday, the government will no longer track daily Covid-19 infections in the ...
Fewer Koreans are visiting Jeju Island, once a popular holiday destination, in favor of neighboring countries like Japan, Thailand and Vietnam thanks to the reopening of borders and increased affordability.
Last week, the daily average number of people infected with the virus amounted to 45,529, a 17 percent increase from the previous week. Three days last week had over 50,000 newly infected people, which was a first in six months.
Covid-19 home test kits are on sale at a convenience store in Seoul on Tuesday. According to convenience store chain 7-Eleven, the sale of Covid test kits between July 1 and 25 jumped 30 percent on month due to the rising cases of Covid-19.
Korea will relax more of its quarantine measures for Covid-19 as early as next month despite the surging number of confirmed cases.
Recent images and video footage in North Korea's state media suggest the country has lifted its mask mandate as of July after years of strict Covid-19 restrictions.
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