Korean government declares end to Covid-19 emergency

Korea declared an end to Covid-19 as a health emergency, lifting nearly all Covid-19 restrictions after three years starting June 1 and marking a de facto transition to an endemic disease.

2023-05-11

Covid partitions now a huge plastic waste problem for Korean schools

Plastic partitions installed at school cafeterias and classrooms to prevent the spread of Covid-19 have now become a huge heap of garbage schools are struggling to properly dispose of.

2023-03-07

Covid cases dip ahead of restriction-free Chuseok holidays

Korea will welcome its first national holiday without social-distancing measures since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic this Chuseok. The Chuseok harvest holidays, starting this Friday, follow a dip in the country’s daily Covid-19 infection...

2022-09-05

[THINK ENGLISH] 코로나19 이후 달라진 놀이문화…호프집·노래방 대신 ‘저녁이 있는 삶’

The owner of a noraebang (singing room) in Seocho District, southern Seoul, is planning to shut down and consider switching to another business. “I thought to myself, everything will be better once the pandemic ends and once all social distancing...

2022-08-10

Daily Covid infections crash 100,000 barrier again

A total of 100,285 new coronavirus cases were detected nationwide Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the first time since mid-April that the daily count reached six figures.

2022-07-27

Thanks to BA.5 variant, new infections near 100,000

Korea’s daily Covid-19 cases soared to nearly 100,000 on Tuesday as the country enters its first wave of the pandemic without any major restrictions.

2022-07-26

Covid-19 daily case total nearly doubles in one-week period

More than 40,000 people across the nation tested positive for the coronavirus on Saturday, nearly double the number from a week before, as new variants continue to rapidly spread.

2022-07-17

Looking back at how Korea fought first Covid waves

The country has undergone five virus waves, and is probably in the beginning of a sixth created by the BA.5 Omicron subvariant.

2022-07-14

Yoon Suk-yeol can't break his morning habit with the press

President Yoon Suk-yeol took questions from reporters on the way to work Tuesday, just a day after such "doorstepping" sessions were suspended due to Covid-19 worries.

2022-07-12

Yoon Suk-yeol's morning barrage from the press is suspended

President Yoon Suk-yeol temporarily suspended his daily question-and-answer sessions with the press because of Covid-19 worries.

2022-07-11

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