Image: BTS, Facebook Key points: BTS " Bang Bang Con " recorded a highest-paid online concert in the world Set a platform and showed new possibilities for concerts, shows, games through online performances Post-ponding or canceling the conferences, events, games, shows, and stage concerts are becoming the so-common news after the pandemic coronavirus spread. The administrative meetings and scientific discussions have been conducted through video conferencing, web conferencing, or webinars via cloud-based communications technologies like Zoom , Google Meet , Microsoft Teams , etc. However, BTS (K-pop) " Bang Bang Con " has hit the largest paid online concert show. Let's see in detail. K-pop: BTS BTS is one of the most famous and successful musical bands in the Korean pop industry. The performances of BTS earned many fans around the world. The fans of Korean Boy Band BTS are called as " BTS Army ." Bang Bang Con: The Live The pandemic coronavir...

Among several drugs, Remdesivir and Hydroxychloroquine are the contestants in the drug trial race for the COVID-19 treatment . Researchers in South Korea have identified a new drug for an effective treatment for COVID-19. The drug called Raloxifene  is a medication used to prevent and treat osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and those on glucocorticoids . Gyeonggi Business and Science Accelerator and the National Institute of Health in South Korea have identified that the drug raloxifene can hinder COVID-19 activities at the cell level. However, further clinical trials will be required for confirmation and declaration of raloxifene as a drug for COVID-19 treatment. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, South Korea will take decision on continuing the drug for the human trial. The details are based on  Arirang News.

Amid the pandemic COVID-19 waves, restaurants are occupying the frontline in the food chain. Hygienic and social distancing rules directly reflected in the restaurants to switch as takeout shops. After a long haul of COVID-19 pandemic wave, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) instructed guidance and best practices to reopen the restaurant business. Most of the countries have permitted to reopen restaurants with necessary precautions and following COVID-19 guidance. Reopening guidance for the restaurant industry The National Restaurant Association and other industry representatives developed a set of guidelines to help restaurants by reopening in the not yet completed pandemic wave manner. The NRA guidelines emphasize the following practices in restaurants: Food safety Cleaning and sanitizing Employee health monitoring and personal hygiene Social distancing The first three are well-known, and mostly all a...

Key points Takeout beverages with new deposit fee for recyclable cups Amendment will be soon after taking necessary measures Image by Naji Habib from Pixabay Modernization impact in takeout policy Raising modernization hugely relied on the takeaway policy of foods, snacks, and beverages from fast-food chain restaurants, bakeries, and coffee shops. In South Korea, recent statistics exhibited a huge increase in takeaway culture.  Takeaway cups - 595% increase in 11 years (2007 to 2018) Fast-food chain restaurants – 872% increase in 10 years (2008 to 2018) Meanwhile, recycling waste reduced from 37% to 5% in 9 years (2009 to 2018). The lack of awareness on recyclable materials and fast-changing routine habits ended up in recyclable materials mixing with the incinerated waste. Unfortunately increasing the greenhouse gases causing air pollution. New act to save and recycle the resources Ministry of Environment, South Korea decided to revise the act on the promotion of savin...

Image:  https://www.pxfuel.com/en/free-photo-qvell Korean digital cultural media Well, most of us have come across the popularity of Korean entertainment. Starting from KPOPs to daily soaps, we might have liked and followed them. Especially the youngsters. Recently, in 2019, the comedy thriller movie “ Parasite ” won the Oscar prize for several categories. Internet and smartphones provide accessibility for everyone to explore more. Our young generation exhibits a huge craze in Korean entertainment news and productions. The production companies realized the universal demand for Korea’s Cultural Productions . Similarly, they have identified the required needs in the market to improve as well. Now, the production firms focus to reach more end-users in the coming days. A fusion of artificial intelligence (AI) with cultural forms South Korea is one of the countries that successfully implemented 5G telecommunications for public services . Based on the 5G platform, they have m...

Key points: "No Mask, No Ride" policy amended by South Korea on May 25, 2020 Facemask is mandatory for all the passengers to travel in buses, taxis, subways, and flights to control the coronavirus spread Image: Pixabay.com/images/id-5071777/ South Korea is the country that controlled the COVID-19 spread effectively without lockdown. However, the recent hike in the infected numbers due to nightclub activities and taxi travel forced the government to take additional preventive measures. Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures recommended wearing a facemask in all public meeting places, especially during the travel in public transports. "We plan to implement the mask-wearing requirement for the transportation sector with all municipal governments together, starting from tomorrow," Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, South Korea The citizens of the country widely accepted No Mask, No Ride' policy on day 1 (Tuesday, May 26, 2020). The understa...

The diagnostic kit plays a vital role in curbing the spread of novel coronavirus. A rapid and accurate diagnosis of infected people will help to reduce the panic situation. After the major outbreak in the European nations and the United States of America, the WHO importuned the world "test, test, and test" as much possible. The importance and multifold increase in the demand for the diagnostic kit resulted in over 200 companies and researchers around the world developing rapid and accurate diagnostic kits for pneumonia 'SARS-CoV-2'. Nucleic acid-based molecular diagnosis (RT-PCR), antibodies detection, and lung analysis using CT-Scan are being considered for the diagnosis . Amidst, the RT-PCR test provides exact information and identifies the infection at the early stage, and hence, recognized it as a gold standard. Antibodies test and CT-Scan analysis are the secondary protocol, both the methods are used to find the infection after the proliferation of vi...