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Migrant workers from Indonesia, wearing full protective gear, enter the arrival gate at Incheon International Airport on Thursday in spite of the exponentially spreading Covid-19 Delta variants.

2021.8.5

Job seekers visit a job center in Seoul on Wednesday. Jobs rose in Korea in June compared to a year earlier, but a fourth wave of Covid infections could threaten the economic recovery. [YONHAP]

Job numbers weren't bad in June, before fourth wave

Total employment grew in June, more evidence of a recovery from the earlier phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. For the first time in more than five years, the number of people in their 40s with jobs increased compared to the previous year.

2021.7.14

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A store employee stacks Covid-19 self testing kits at a 7-Eleven store in central Seoul on Wednesday. The number of people confirmed to have contracted Covid-19 reached the second-highest daily figure on Tuesday.

2021.7.7

A club in Hongdae in Mapo District, western Seoul, posts a sign that states it will be closed for one week on Friday. The Mapo District Office said it will be conducting a special inspection of the Hongdae area for the next two weeks to make sure quarantine measures are being implemented properly amid a cluster of Covid-19 infections linked to pubs and restaurants in the area. [NEWS1]

Hongdae hot spot to be inspected as virus infections pass 800

As Korea's daily Covid-19 cases surged to over 800 Friday, the highest infections in nearly half a year amid concerns over the spread of a more contagious variant, Seoul’s Mapo District will be conducting a special quarantine inspection of Hongdae.

2021.7.2

It’s not over

The government attempted to ease the social distancing rules strictly banning private gatherings of more than four from July 1. But it had to postpone the easing by a week after new Covid-19 cases started to surge. That was an...

2021.7.1

People stand in line to take coronavirus tests at a screening clinic in the southeastern city of Daegu on Monday. Korea's daily new virus cases spiked to an over two-month high as a series of cluster infections were reported in the wider Seoul area amid jitters over growing Covid-19 variant cases. [YONHAP]

Greater Seoul can't relax distancing measures yet

Seoul, Gyeonggi and Incheon will postpone the relaxing of social distancing rules to next week as daily new Covid-19 cases spiked to an over two-month high.

2021.6.30

Woo Kee-hong, Korean Air Lines President, speaks at a tourism meeting hosted by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry in central Seoul on Tuesday. [KCCI]

Travel agency meeting is gloomy

The travel industry thinks it will take a couple more years to recover from Covid-19.

2021.6.29

Foreign arrivals undergo quarantine procedures at Incheon International Airport on Thursday amid the global spread of the Delta coronavirus variant. [YONHAP]

Korea wary of new virus variants, but not panicked

Korea won’t change its social distancing policy over fears of coronavirus variants such as the Delta variant, which is believed to be more contagious.

2021.6.24