The local health ministry announced a 36th MERS-related death Friday -- like most of the others, the latest victim already had a compromised immune system.
But all the other figures remained on a positive trend going into the weekend.
The number of overall cases has stayed at 186 since last Sunday -- a major boost considering more than 20 new infections were being unveiled daily at the height of South Korea's outbreak, which began in late May with the return of an unwell man from the Middle East.
Saturday morning's briefing also revealed that three more patients had recovered from MERS, bringing the number of discharged to 128.
Just 513 people were still under isolation orders, representing a small portion of the nearly 17,000 locals to have been subjected to quarantine measures according to the ministry.
That leaves 22 MERS patients still hospitalized.
The World Health Organization previously said that in order for South Korea's outbreak to reach an end, all local cases have to be resolved and two 14-day incubation periods have to pass without further infections.
By that reckoning, it will be several more weeks at least before the country can be officially declared MERS-free.
Some local hospitals have come under heavy criticism for allowing exposure to the virus to be greater than it might have been once the risks of the illness were known -- the legal process of deciding accountability has just been getting underway in recent days.
The global MERS epicenter is considered to be Saudi Arabia, where the fatality rate has been around double that of South Korea.
Related to SARS, the virus was only discovered in people for the first time in 2012.
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