At the beginning of the year, many of us were thinking of having a checkup in South Korea during the spring break. Others were looking for medical treatment for underlying diseases at Korean hospitals. While some were thinking to boost their personal confidence at plastic surgery clinics in Korea. Unfortunately, the coronavirus spread cut everyone’s […]
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Media and people usually use “coronavirus” and “COVID-19” as exchangeable terms. They are not. Coronavirus disease COVID-19 is the latest discovered type of the coronaviruses family. As we all know, the COVID-19 outbreak started in Wuhan, China, December last year (2019). Two months later, after spreading to different provinces inside China, the virus was first
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Korea is facing yet another virus spread after 2015, when the country dealt with MERS. At that time, it was Samsung Medical Center at the middle of controversy. Some pointed out that the hospital, along other medical institutions, didn’t place enough safety controls to avoid more cases. It took more than a month for the
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