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[WORD_ON_THE_WEB] 'Think about the risk you’ll pose to people around you'

The vaccination rate for booster shots is dropping significantly even as the number of daily cases topped 300,000 on March 9 and 10.

2022.3.11

A sign saying that the vaccine pass system is temporarily suspended from March 1 is placed in a restaurant window in Daegu on Monday. [NEWS1]

Vaccine pass system to end Tuesday

The vaccine pass system, a major part of late pandemic life in Korea, will be suspended starting Tuesday.

2022.2.28

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People wait in line to take a Covid-19 test at a temporary screening center at Seoul Station on Sunday. [YONHAP]

Option to quarantine, test to be left to certain individuals

The mandatory self-quarantine for people living with a Covid-19 patient, including the unvaccinated, will be scrapped starting Tuesday, leaving some worried about a possible crack in the country’s patient management system.

2022.2.27

A sign's wording is changed to show the extended hours of restaurants and cafes from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. under the eased social distancing measures, put up on the window of a restaurant in Jongno District, central Seoul on Sunday. [YONHAP]

Cases over 100,000 for third day, critical patients remain in 400s

Korea’s Covid-19 cases topped 100,000 for three consecutive days on Sunday, with patients in critical condition remaining above 400.

2022.2.20

Check in checks out

A sign is on display at a supermarket in Seoul on Sunday informing customers that they are no longer required to check in upon entry. The government discontinued the use of the ...

2022.2.20

A visitor to Lotte Department Store's main branch in central Seoul checks in using a QR code. [YONHAP]

[WORD_ON_THE_WEB] 'QR codes are kind of useless now'

Currently, QR scanners are installed at many venues in Korea to record the details of people visiting to facilitate the tracking and tracing of Covid-19 infections, but that could change.

2022.2.16

A Covid-19 screening clinic at Seoul Station in central Seoul is covered with snow amid a heavy snow warning on Wednesday. [NEWS1]

Omicron's rise brings Covid cases back above 5,000

Daily coronavirus infections jumped to over 5,000 for the first time this year on Wednesday and health authorities warned that Omicron’s dominance has just begun.

2022.1.19

A woman and her husband greet each other through a glass wall divider at a nursing hospital in Daejeon on Tuesday. [YONHAP]

Vaccine pass exemptions may expand, but not to pregnant women

While Korea contemplates expanding the types of people eligible for vaccine pass exemption, health authorities say pregnant women are not likely to be included.

2022.1.18

Visitors wait to show vaccine passes at the entrance of a department store in Seoul on Monday, one day before the vaccine pass program will be scrapped at six types of businesses nationwide, including department stores. [YONHAP]

Vaccine passes nixed for movies, hagwon, big stores

After a matter of weeks, Korea is doing away with vaccine pass requirements to get into department stores, movie theaters and hagwon (cram schools), starting Tuesday.

2022.1.17

Shoppers at a large-sized supermarket in Seoul on Sept. 23, 2021. The supermarkets and department stores larger than 3,000 square meters (32,300 square feet) nationwide have required vaccine passes since Jan. 10. After over 1,000 doctors and other professionals protested the system, a temporary halt, only at Seoul's large-sized supermarkets and department stores, has been in place since Friday. [NEWS1]

[WHY] The unvaccinated in Korea and how they deal with the vaccine pass

Mrs. Oh, a 35-year-old pregnant woman who works as a freelancer in Gangnam District, southern Seoul, often makes do with sandwiches and snacks in her car instead of having proper meals at restaurants. “Even when I go to a restaurant by myself...

2022.1.16