The full ban on short selling has added volatility to Korean stock markets, but experts predict its impacts to be short-lived.
China's decision to impose sales restrictions against Micron put Samsung Electronics and SK hynix on tenterhooks as the Korean chip giants could come under the influence of a widening economic tit-for-tat between Beijing and Washington.
Anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 will have to quarantine for five days, not seven, from early May.
The Korean quarantine authority announced Wednesday that the pre-departure test results required from anyone traveling from those three regions will be lifted.
The Yoon administration must respect science-based quarantine guidelines while displaying flexibility.
One in seven short-term travelers from China who were tested for the coronavirus at Incheon International Airport on Saturday turned out positive, nearly half the infection rate compared to a few days earlier when entry regulations were weaker.
A 41-year-old Chinese man who escaped quarantine after testing positive for the coronavirus at Incheon International Airport was nabbed at a hotel in downtown Seoul on Thursday afternoon.
The city of Seoul has lifted a citywide 35-story limit on apartment buildings to allow more flexible city planning and a greater variety of landscapes, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Government Thursday.
Just days after new Covid restrictions were imposed on Chinese arrivals, loopholes are already being discovered in quarantine facilities, data systems and at local government offices handling the arrivals.
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