Medical experts, academics and scientists have been calling on wealthy countries to share COVID-19 vaccines with lower-income countries, in order to reduce the risk of new mutant variants emerging. 의료 전문가, 학계, 과학자들은 새로운 돌연변이 변종의 발생 위험을 줄이기 위해 부유한 국가들에게 저소득 국가들과 COVID-19 백신을 공유할 것을 요구해 왔다. Despite the warnings, vaccine distribution in low-income countries have been highly limited, leading to the ..

Stephen Fry suggested this week that "social media is a lavatory wall." Essential, capable of providing anonymity and security when we need it most, yet basically surrounded by a load of old crap and home to glory holes and spycams. It's a place where ideas are scrawled by anyone and everyone, often without consideration of the consequences. A soapbox. A place to vent: to be outrageous. You can ..

Customs authorities to monitor funding sources of overseas purchases of Korean real estater 관세당국, 해외부동산 매입출처 감시 The Korea Customs Service (KCS) will start receiving foreign exchange network data from the Bank of Korea (BOK) every month starting early next year to monitor whether people residing outside of Korea sourced their money illegally to purchase real estate here. 관세청은 내년 초부터 한국은행으로부터 매달 외..

Cigna is facing intensifying protest from LINA Korea's executives and employees for its recent decision to sell the life insurer to Chubb, which has Ace Insurance and Chubb Life Korea as its Korean operations. 시그나는 Ace 손보와 첩 생보가 한국 법인으로 둔 첩에 생보를 매각하는 최근 결정에 대해 라이나 사람들로부터 강한 반발에 직면했다 "Cigna denied rumors several times about its sale of LINA, expressing its intention to continue managing the Korea..

Six out of 10 Seoulites would rather work in a virtual setting, such as the "metaverse" where people interact with each other as avatars, rather than going to a physical office. According to the survey, 65.1 percent, or 2,916 Seoulites, would prefer to go to a virtual workspace using avatars. The other 34.9 percent, or 1,560 respondents, answered they would prefer to go to an actual office. 서울시민..

Nearly 90 small cities and counties that are in danger of extinction due to population decrease have been designated as "depopulation areas" for intensive support from the central government, the interior ministry said Monday. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said that it has designated 89 cities, counties and wards across the country as depopulation areas and a relevant public notice is ..

Daily new COVID-19 cases stayed in the 1,600s for the second consecutive day Friday, as the government plans to relax social distancing rules, starting next week, ahead of a gradual return to "normal life" On Friday, government announced a set of eased social distancing rules as South Korea prepares for a "Living with COVID - 19" plan next month, in which the virus will be treated as an infectio..