(South Korea🇰🇷) The South Korean government is strengthening its crackdown on the smuggling of face masks through airports. The government allows each passenger to carry 300 facial masks at maximum.
(Source: The Korea Herald)
*China🇨🇳
The number of mobile apps available in China slipped by 18.8% to 3.67 million year-by-year in 2019.
China unveiled a mobile app “close contact detector,” which enables users to check whether they were in close contact with someone infected, in an attempt to quell coronavirus fears and prevent infection.
(Source: Xinhua News Agency)
*Japan🇯🇵
Sales of electric bicycles in Japan more than doubled to 667,244 units in 2018 as the country sees the rapidly aging population and the attempt to curb pollution.
The Hilton group is set to open a luxury hotel in Kyoto in 2021, with an expectation that tourists to Japan will surge even after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
(Source: Kyodo News, News on Japan)
