코로나19가 확산하면서 일상에도 많은 변화가 나타나고 있습니다. 그중 하나가 바로 '언택트 문화'입니다. 언택트(Untact)란 '콘택트(contact: 접촉하다)'에서 부정의 의미인 '언(un-)을 합성한 말로, 기술의 발전을 통해 점원과의 접촉 없이 물건을 구매하는 등의 새로운 소비 경향을 의미합니다. 무인 키오스크나 아니면 패스트푸드점, 무인 편의점 같은 곳에서 많이 쓰였는데 최근에는 코로나19로 많은 분이 집에만 있게 되면서 좀 다른 의미를 가지게 됐습니다. 인터넷 쇼핑이나 배달, 원격 교육 등 직접 만나지 않는 활동을 다 합쳐서 '언택트 문화'라고 부릅니다. 일종의 '사회적 거리 두기'로 지금까지와는 좀 결이 다르게 빠르게 우리 일상에 자리 잡아가고 있습니다. (연합뉴스)

한국어판 March 18, 2020

"A형이 코로나19에 취약…개인 보호에 신경 써야" 혈액형 O형이 신종 코로나바이러스 감염증(코로나19)에서 상대적으로 내성이 강할 수 있다는 중국 연구진의 연구 결과가 나왔다. 17일 펑파이(澎湃)에 따르면 남방과기대와 상하이교통대 등 8개 기관이 코로나19 발원지로 알려진 우한(武漢)시의 진인탄(金銀潭) 병원의 확진자 1천775명을 조사해 이런 주장을 했다. 이들 연구진은 코로나19의 임상적 관찰 결과 노인과 남성이 코로나19에 감염되기 쉽다는 것을 보여주며 혈액형과도 연관이 있는 것으로 보인다고 밝혔다. O형은 코로나19에 감염될 가능성이 상대적으로 낮은 반면 A형은 감염 위험이 높은 것으로 분석됐다. 우한시의 정상인 3천694명의 혈액형 중 A형은 전체의 32.16%, B형은 24.90%, AB형은 9.10%, O형은 33.84%였다. 하지만 진인탄 병원에 입원한 코로나19 환자 1천775명의 경우 A형이 37.75%, B형이 26

한국어판 March 18, 2020

The National Assembly on Tuesday approved an 11.7 trillion-won ($9.42 billion) extra budget to help contain the novel coronavirus and minimize the economic fallout from the outbreak. The supplementary budget bill passed through the parliamentary plenary session, with 222 of the 225 lawmakers present voting in favor. One voted against the bill while the remaining two lawmakers abstained. The overall size of the budget was unchanged from the original government proposal but details have been ad

Politics March 17, 2020

More than 170,000 overseas Koreans in 119 countries will be allowed to vote in the April 15 general elections, the National Election Commission said Tuesday. The number of eligible overseas voters stood at 171,959, up 11.5 percent from 154,217 four years ago, according to the NEC. It will be the third time for Korean citizens to participate in parliamentary elections from abroad. The first was in 2012, when a total of 123,571 overseas voters were registered. Residents in the United States ha

Politics March 17, 2020

 The defense ministers of South Korea and Estonia held phone talks on Tuesday and discussed measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic, Seoul's defense ministry said. The talks between South Korea's Jeong Kyeong-doo and Estonia's Jüri Luik took place "to continue their close defense ties amid this COVID-19 situation," according to the ministry. Luik postponed his planned trip to Seoul in February, when South Korea began to report a dramatic increase in the number of confi

Business March 17, 2020

The government of Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul, issued an administrative order on Tuesday imposing strict conditions on church worship services to help combat the coronavirus outbreak. Under the administrative order, the first of its kind issued in South Korea, the provincial government will enforce guidelines for mass gatherings at 137 churches that have been caught failing to comply with its guidance for preventing the spread of COVID-19. The government said it will enforce seve

Social Affairs March 17, 2020

Russia's Embassy in North Korea has released photos showing all priests and worshippers wearing masks during a recent Mass service at a Russian Orthodox church in Pyongyang in an indication that the country is on high alert for the coronavirus. "The service was carried out in compliance with all necessary precautions ... the parishioners who were quarantined and those attending the mass wore masks and the rituals were performed in sanitary conditions," the embassy said in a post Mond

North Korea March 17, 2020

US Forces Korea (USFK) Commander Gen. Robert Abrams has praised South Korea's response to the coronavirus outbreak, commending local health authorities as "extraordinary partners" for their professionalism, transparency and coordination efforts. "Cannot underscore enough how great KCDC has been for us to work with. Open, transparent, collaborative and extremely helpful. They have been tireless, around the clock for over a month and going strong," Abrams tweeted Monday. KCD

Defense March 17, 2020

South Korea reported fewer than 100 new coronavirus cases for a third straight day on Tuesday, but concerns lingered in the metropolitan area as group transmission and imported cases emerged as new risks in the anti-virus fight. Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul, reported a sharp increase of 31 cases, which brought the total in the province to 262, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Seoul, cases increased by 12 to 265, while Incheon, west of Seoul, ad

Social Affairs March 17, 2020

The foreign ministries of South Korea, China and Japan held a working-level conference call on Tuesday to discuss cooperation in stemming the regional and global spread of the new coronavirus, officials said. Kim Jung-han, director-general for Asian and Pacific affairs at Seoul's foreign ministry, joined the call with his Chinese and Japanese counterparts, Wu Jianghao and Shigeki Takizaki. In the call, they agreed to explore ways to hold trilateral talks among the foreign ministers of their

Foreign Affairs March 17, 2020

South Korea's drive to stem further spread of the new coronavirus may lose steam, but the country's health authorities are again tightening the screw on the nationwide campaign amid slowing new infections as the next few weeks are a critical juncture to bring the COVID-19 outbreak under control. The country recorded daily new infections of COVID-19 in the double digits for the third straight day on Tuesday, bringing the nation's total infections to 8,320, the Korea Centers for Disease Control

Social Affairs March 17, 2020

South Korea has sent 51,000 coronavirus test kits to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in "emergency exports," Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday. So far, 17 countries have formally requested the items from South Korea, it added, amid the global attention being paid to the country's rapid testing regime that is apparently behind a lower-than-average mortality rate. The UAE is the country South Korea can ship the kits to the fastest, according to a Cheong Wa Dae official, who added that the mov

Politics March 17, 2020

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest memory chip and smartphone maker, said Tuesday it has begun mass-producing the industry's fastest mobile storage. The 512-gigabyte (GB) embedded universal flash storage (eUFS) 3.1 is in mass production for use in flagship smartphones, according to Samsung. The latest product delivers three times the write speed of its previous mobile memory, the 512GB eUFS 3.0, with performance of 1,200 megabytes per second (MB/s), it added. Samsung's 512GB eUFS

Technology March 17, 2020

Ten more countries have banned the entry of people from South Korea over coronavirus concerns, raising the total number of countries and territories imposing such entry or quarantine restrictions to 150, even though Seoul has seen a marked drop in new infections. Eighty-five countries and territories were set to impose or were already imposing an entry ban on people from Korea, up from 75 the previous day, the foreign ministry's chart showed Tuesday. Canada was the latest in the list with it

Foreign Affairs March 17, 2020

South Korean biotech firms are exporting their novel coronavirus test kits as countries scramble to stem the rapid spread by isolating infected people, industry sources said Tuesday. Seegene, Kogene Biotech, Solgent, SD Biosensor and other companies have all received permission from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) to sell their products in South Korea, as well as in overseas markets. The products that have received permission mostly use real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR

Technology March 17, 2020