Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Friday that the government will encourage doctors to prescribe COVID-19 treatment pills for high-risk patients on the day their infections are confirmed. "For high-risk COVID-19 groups, including people aged 60 or older, test, treatment and prescription of medicine will be carried out in one day," Han told a virus response meeting. The government will also allow...

Clubs jostling for second place in the top South Korean football league will meet for the second time on the weekend. Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, five-time defending K League 1 champions, will host Jeju United at 7 p.m. Saturday at Jeonju World Cup Stadium in Jeonju, some 240 kilometers south of Seoul. Through 14 matches, Jeonbuk are eight points behind the leaders, Ulsan Hyundai FC, at 25 points. ...

대학교 1학년 때 방학 특강을 하는 어느 강사의 강의를 들은 적이 있다. 그런데 이 분은 동의어를 10개 이상씩 적어주는 분이었다. 그래서 참 대단하다고 여겼다가 나중에는 이렇게 암기하는 것이 의미가 있을까 의문이 갔다. 이 분이 어디에서 동의어를 찾나 확인해보니 Peter Mark Roget(로제)의 동의어 사전을 배끼는 것이었다. Roget는 본래 에든버러 대학 출신 의사이지만, 영미권에서는 '로제'하면 곧 '동의어 사전'을 가리킬 정도로 정평난 Roget's Thesaurus의 저술자이다. 사전 만드는데에 그렇게나 열을 올렸던 이유가 평생 우울증에 시달렸기 때문에 뭔가 붙들고 할 게 필요했다고 한다. 이렇게 병적으로 집착하여 만든 이 사전은 비슷한 의미의 단어를 여러 개 나열하고 있고 주로 본토 원어...

North Korea reported over 100,000 new suspected COVID-19 cases and one additional death Friday. More than 100,460 people showed symptoms of fever and one death was reported over a 24-hour period until 6 p.m. the previous day, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said, citing data from the state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters. The total number of fever cases since late Apri...

Dedoco enables organizations to better manage digital workflows, increasing overall security, trust, and transparency through blockchain technology SINGAPORE , May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dedoco secures US$3 million funding from True Global Ventures 4 Plus (TGV4 Plus) Fund to fuel its global expansion. TGV is an early investor of prominent projects such as blockchain unicorns Animoca B...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday urged Beijing to work with the US on global issues, including North Korea, as he laid out US policy toward China and its intensifying power competition. The top US diplomat insisted the two powers must cooperate on vital global issues including North Korea despite their differences. "On non-proliferation and arms control, it's in all of our inter...

The United States and South Korea are working to find the "right mix" of tools to address the North Korean issue, a senior White House official said Thursday. Edgard Kagan, special assistant to President Joe Biden and senior director for East Asia and Oceania at the National Security Council, also said the countries have no illusions that there is a magic solution to the challenges posed by Nort...

The exhibition is part of “Korea Craft Week 2022,” organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The Yeol Korean Heritage Preservation Society annually presents the Yeol Artisan of the Year and Yeol Young Crafts of the Year awards. Yeol Bukchonga is closed on Sundays and Mondays. Admission is free. ( yeeun@heraldcorp.com ) (ssh@heraldcorp.com) ( yunapark@heraldcorp.com )

Gokseong International Rose Festival The Gokseong International Rose Festival is set to run from May 21 to June 6 at Seomjingang Train Village in Gokseong, South Jeolla Province. The annual event presents 1,004 types of roses from around the world to delight flower-loving visitors and offer splendid photo opportunities. Visitors can enjoy the vibrant beauty of roses from a railbike or take par...

JW Marriott Hotel Seoul offers homemade bingsu The Lounge, the premium lounge destination in the eighth-floor reception lobby at JW Marriott Hotel Seoul, celebrates the arrival of summer with three varieties of homemade iced bingsu dessert, available until Sept. 18. Annual bestseller Jeju Apple Mango Bingsu, the Lounge’s signature summer dessert, features mango pearls topped with a whole sliced...

Good Morning (Korea) Opened May 25 Drama Directed by Cha Bong-joo Soo-mi (Kim Hwan-hee) wants to die due to the difficult situation she had to face as an orphan. Seo-jin (Yoo Sun), a volunteer hospice worker who lost her daughter five years ago, saves Soo-mi as she is about to jump off a bridge. Seo-jin tells Soo-mi that she can learn how to die at the hospice center and suggests she join th...

This is the most exciting -- and promising -- moment for the nation’s labor movement in decades thanks to the landmark union victories at Starbucks and Amazon, as well as the spread of union drives to well-known companies like Trader Joe’s and Apple. To find similar excitement about unions, one would have to go back to the 1930s and the victorious Flint sit-down strike against General Motors, whi...

LEXINGTON, Mass. , May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CAMX Power LLC (CAMX) announces it consented to Johnson Matthey Plc (JM) transferring its GEMX® and CAM-7® cathode license to EV Metals Group Plc (EVM). JM had previously obtained the license from CAMX, practicing it in its cathode business. JM has made the license part of the sale of its cathode business to EVM. "When JM announced its exit from...