First Apple Store outside China to reopen this weekend after coronavirus closures

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The first Apple store outside China is set to reopen this weekend, following the iPhone maker’s sweeping move to temporarily shutter all of its stores outside China for an indefinite period as a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
The first non-China store reopening is in South Korea, where Apple has a single store in the city of Seoul.
South Korea has done a better job than almost any other country in the world in terms of testing and mitigation efforts related to the virus.
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It’s been almost a month now since Apple clarified that its closure of all stores outside of China as a result of the coronavirus pandemic would remain in place “until further notice,” but that won’t be the case for much longer — for one store, at least.

The iPhone maker’s first store outside China is set to reopen this weekend, on April 18, in South Korea, where Apple has a single store in the upscale Seoul district of Gangnam. Its reopening reflects the fact that South Korea has done a better job than almost any other country in fighting the coronavirus, in terms of both testing and containment efforts. And this report follows the news of a memo that Apple senior vice president of retail and people Deirdre O’Brien sent a few weeks ago, noting that stores in the US would remain closed until early May.

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