The Korea Herald

Why do Sunday services continue service despite coronavirus spread?

Mar 19, 2020

Critics say some smaller churches press on for financial reasons
Esports find opportunity online

Mar 19, 2020

The novel coronavirus pandemic is having an impact on all sports globally, but esports remains among few areas that have been relatively less scathed. As matches go online, changes in lifestyle broug...
Cultural Heritage Administration plans to jointly seek UNESCO listing of DMZ with North Korea

Mar 17, 2020

The Cultural Heritage Administration seeks to register the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, together with North Korea, according to its plan for 2020 announc...
[News Focus] Church services likely to lead to community spread of coronavirus

Mar 16, 2020

Another cluster outbreak of COVID-19 occurred near the capital, as 40 members of River of Grace Community Church in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, were newly confirmed with the novel coronavirus infect...
‘The Plague’ by Albert Camus makes bestseller list

Mar 15, 2020

As coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc, readers turn to 60-year-old tale of epidemic
[Weekender] Love in a time of coronavirus

Mar 13, 2020

Roses are red, violets are blue. The season of love is here, and the coronavirus is too. “I was supposed to get married on White Day but I delayed it to this fall due to the coronavirus,” a bride-to...
[Weekender] Handmade masks comfort marginalized people amid serious shortage

Mar 12, 2020

When Park Jin-ryoung, a Daegu resident, saw people waiting in line for hours to buy a face mask -- a must-have survival item in the city, which accounts for nearly 70 percent of COVID-19 cases in Sou...
Local libraries provide drive-thru service as coronavirus spreads

Mar 12, 2020

More and more local public libraries in Korea are starting to provide drive-thru book services as a solution for the shutting down of libraries due to the spread of coronavirus. A public library in ...
Clubs overturn decision to open as coronavirus continues to spread

Mar 12, 2020

However, club closures did not stop young adults from enjoying nightlife, looking to mingle with peers. There were long lines Wednesday in front of a few bars with dance music that were open in Gangn...
Faithful flock to screens for Sunday service

Mar 10, 2020

Another change was the way worshippers prepared to attend the Sunday service. Instead of donning their Sunday best for church, people wore comfortable clothes at home, some children still in their pa...
E-book service provider Millie’s Library provides free service for coronavirus patients

Mar 10, 2020

Millie’s Library, a subscription-based e-book service provider, on Tuesday announced that it was offering two months of free service to COVID-19 patients and those in home quarantine in conjunction w...
Anxiety grows after COVID-19 infection of dog reported in Hong Kong

Mar 9, 2020

Chung Min-su, who has three bichon frise dogs at home, began to worry about the possibility of her pets catching COVID-19 after hearing news last week that a dog had tested positive for the new coron...
Korea.net’s honorary reporters report on coronavirus in Korea

Mar 9, 2020

Korea.net, the South Korean government’s online platform, announced Monday that its ninth group of honorary reporters had begun their first assignment and were covering the spread of COVID-19 in Kore...
Boosted by YouTube, trademark applications for media surge

Mar 8, 2020

With more individuals jumping on to online video platforms in recent years, Korea has seen a sharp increase in the number of related trademark applications, according to data released by the Korean I...
Protestant churches ask government to investigate Shincheonji

Mar 6, 2020

Mainstream Protestant church groups -- the National Council of Churches in Korea and the United Christian Churches of Korea -- on Friday asked the government to investigate leaders of the Shincheonji...