Prime Minister Chung Sye-Kyun (Photo Credits: Facebook)
Seoul, February 23: Those who violate social distancing restrictions will not be eligible for an upcoming batch of emergency cash handouts, South Korea s Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said on Tuesday. He was warning of stern measures, including the so-called one-strike, you re out punishment, amid continued reports of some shops, restaurants and other businesses nationwide breaching a set of rules aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19, Yonhap reported. At invisible places, there are frequent cases of social commitments being ignored, he said during a daily interagency meeting on the coronavirus response, held at the government office complex in Sejong, 120 kilometers south of Seoul.