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South Korea reported 488 new COVID-19 cases on Monday the first time in a week that the number has fallen below 500. But this does not necessarily mean that the spread of the virus is slowing down as the decrease was in part due to fewer tests being done on the weekend. Of those cases, 465 were locally transmitted and 23 were from overseas. With more than 40 percent of local transmissions from outside the capital region, health officials are concerned the virus is spreading all across the country. Due to worries over a potential rise in new cases amid warmer weather the government ex...

South Korea's National Medical Center on Monday released an interim vaccine report showing that neutralizing antibodies had been formed in all those surveyed. Research carried out on 50 of its employees all of whom were given the Pfizer vaccine showed that 62 percent developed neutralizing antibodies three weeks after their first dose and all had the antibodies one week after the second dose. The National Medical Center also reported that the fatality rate for the past two months has fallen to zero.6-9 percent. This is almost half when compared to the pandemic as a whole at 1.4-9 percent....

The heirs of the Samsung Group will have to pay nearly 11 billion U.S. dollars in inheritance taxes by far the highest amount ever imposed on a South Korean company. The late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who was the country's richest man, left behind assets estimated to be worth nearly 27 billion U.S. dollars when he passed away in October last year. The assets include stocks worth about 17 billion dollars as well as a sizeable chunk of property holdings, his art collection as well as cash. Samsung will also make a charitable donation of 900 million U.S. dollars over a 10-year period ...

A lot of eyes in South Korea have been focused on how the family of Samsung's late founder will pay taxes on the tens of billions of dollars they inherited from the country's richest man when he was alive. For more on this, Bae Eun-ji is on the line. Eun-ji, give us the details. Sure Mark. The late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who was the country's richest man left behind assets estimated to be worth nearly 27 billion U.S. dollars. Samsung Group announced the details on how the heirs will pay the inheritance tax just an hour ago. The late chairman's assets include stocks worth about 17...

As the employment crisis from the pandemic continues, South Korea is seeing its worst job numbers in more than 20 years. According to data released by Statistics Korea on Wednesday, about 26.3 million people were in employment last month 473-thousand fewer than the same period the previous year. This is the twelfth month in a row that employment has fallen the longest period of decline since April 1999. The situation was slightly better than the previous month when the number of people employed fell by nearly one-million on-year. "Compared to January, there was a smaller decline in...