South Korea recorded double-digit figures in daily new COVID-19 cases for the second consecutive day Sunday, with tightened coronavirus restrictions to come into force Monday for the extended Chuseok holiday. Korea added 95 more COVID-19 cases -- 73 locally transmitted and 22 imported -- in the 24 hours ending Saturday at midnight, pushing up the total caseload to 23,611, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. The decline in new cases, however, might not mean that the vi

South Korea’s sole bourse operator is slated to translate daily disclosures of 54 companies listed on the Kospi market in English starting Monday, according to officials Sunday. As of end-August, foreign investors were holding 35.3 percents of stock ownership of Kospi-listed companies. The number of disclosures translated in English, however, was just 697, or 5.9 percent of total number of disclosures published in Korean. To provide more information on Korean companies to foreign inves

More than 300 South Koreans have been injected with seasonal flu vaccines that should not have been administered due to storage problems, but no side effects have been reported, health authorities said Saturday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said 324 people received the vaccines that were not supposed to be administered after being exposed to room temperature. The figure marked a hike from Friday, when the agency reported 224 people received the flu shots. Still, n