Bahk Eun-ji has been with The Korea Times since 2012, building a career across multiple desks. She began at the Business Desk, where she conducted in-depth interviews with key figures in Korea's corporate world. Later, she moved to the Politics & City Desk, focusing on education policy and social affairs. She later served as team leader of the digital content team, leading curation efforts on the newspaper’s homepage and reshaping print stories for social media audiences to enhance digital reach. Now back on the Politics Desk, she covers the National Assembly and the Ministry of National Defense, with a renewed focus on political developments.
Under toughened social distancing rules
Table and chairs are set aside at a cafe in Seoul, Thursday, to provide more distance between customers after the government raised its social distancing guidelines by one notch to Level 1.5 for the capital and its surrounding area, and some other parts of the country following a surge in the number of COVID-19 infections. /Yonhap
By Bahk Eun-ji