Job applicants took a written exam, while seated safe distances apart, at a football stadium in Ansan, south of Seoul, Saturday. The outdoor test was part of the recruitment process at city-run Ansan Urban Corp. The company decided to hold the test in order to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.  (Photos: Yonhap)

South Korea reported 81 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, but concerns remain that cluster transmission and imported cases continued to hit Seoul and the surrounding areas. The country’s total cases reached 10,237 and the death toll rose by six to 183, with more than half of fatalities being patients aged 80 or older, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The number of patients who were recovered went up by 138, with the total standing at 6,463, the KCDC said. Seoul

Ahn Cheol-soo, head of the centrist People’s Party, called on political parties to return campaign subsidies they received from the government, saying the coronavirus pandemic has dampened conventional campaigning activities, bringing down overall costs. 　 “Our economy is in a total disarray and many people are pushed to their limits. (...) Are we going to spend all the taxpayers’ money at a time like this? Are we even entitled?” the politician wrote on Facebook on Frid

A physician infected with the novel coronavirus died early Friday morning in Daegu, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. It is the first known death of a medical professional from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. The doctor, 60, had been hospitalized at Kyungbook National University Hospital upon his diagnosis on March 19. He was believed to have contracted the pathogen from a patient who visited his clinic. An erroneous report by a Korean news agency said h

S. Korea’s coronavirus tally surpassed 10,000 on Friday, 74 days after the first case was reported. The country counted 86 new infections in the 24 hours to midnight Thursday, bringing the total accumulated cases of confirmed COVID-19 infections to 10,062, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Five more virus patients died. The death toll from the disease now stands at 174. Of the total 10,062, 6,021 are fully recovered. Of the 86 new infections, 42 were r

Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday afternoon that earlier reports of a doctor dying from COVID-19 were inaccurate. The Centers did confirm, however, that the doctor-turned-patient was in a critical state. The clarifications came after a local outlet had reported that a doctor in North Gyeongsang Province died Thursday morning after contracting the virus from a patient who came to his office. The hospital in the province, which handles severe to critical c

Back in the 1950s, Sgt. Joe Friday of the TV show “Dragnet” famously advised witnesses: “Just the facts, ma’am.” That phrase became a national slogan, long before the very concept of “facts” was clouded by social media. As the number of coronavirus cases soars, with Americans anxious to know when stay-at-home orders will end, we desperately need the facts, based on reliable data. Instead, we are deluged with COVID-19 misinformation from the White House

Management in Korea is a regular column written by the members of Egon Zehnder Seoul, touching on various aspects of Korean enterprises and business leaders and offering management tips. -- Ed. By Eugene Kim and Olivia de Patoul In the first article published in March, we discussed how governance in South Korea has become marginalized, the factors that played into creating an environment where shareholders are often ignored, and how preventive steps investors can take to ensure board members u

진행자: 김보경, Kevin Lee Selzer 1.   Seoul gives masks free to foreigners alienated in public rationing 아이튠즈(아이폰): https://itunes.apple.com/kr/podcast/koliaheleoldeu-paskaeseuteu/id686406253?mt=2 팟빵 (안드로이드): http://www.podbbang.com/ch/6638 [1] Seoul Metropolitan Government is handing out 100,000 face masks free of charge to foreigners who have been largely sidelined in the country‘s public mask rationing system, the city said Tuesday. *free of charge: 무료 *sideline: 사이드라인 (소외되다) *p

Herald Corp. said Wednesday it had reappointed Kwon Chung-won as its chief executive officer and publisher. The decision to extend Kwon’s tenure was finalized at the annual shareholders meeting Tuesday. The incumbent CEO Kwon has been leading Herald Corp., which publishes The Korea Herald and its sister paper The Herald Business, since March 2017, when he took the helm of the company. Kwon initially joined the Korea Economic Research Institute in 1985 and later moved to The Herald Bu