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SEOUL (REUTERS) – South Korean officials are working to keep more than a thousand people displaced by flooding safe and healthy with anti-coronavirus measures in…
View More Coronavirus complicates South Korea flood response as hundreds gather in shelters
SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) – A South Korean court is set to start liquidating assets of a Japanese company to compensate Koreans conscripted to work during colonial…
View More South Korea and Japan's acrimony over colonial occupation compensation could hit Trump's plans on China
SEOUL (REUTERS) – Worried South Koreans are putting banknotes in their microwaves and washing machines, damaging the bills in their attempts to cleanse them of…
View More Surge in damaged cash as worried South Koreans try to microwave the virus
TOKYO/SEOUL (REUTERS) – Japan said on Thursday (July 30) it was disappointed South Korea was proceeding with a complaint to the World Trade Organisation (WTO),…
View More Japan unhappy after WTO panel set up to rule on curbs of exports to South Korea
SEOUL (REUTERS) – South Korea’s Green Cross Corp has sought regulatory approval for Phase II trials of an experimental Covid-19 blood plasma treatment drug, the…
View More South Korea's Green Cross seeks phase 2 trials of Covid-19 plasma drug
SEOUL (REUTERS) – South Korea and the United States have agreed to revise their joint missile guidelines to facilitate South Korea’s plans to build a…
View More Revised missile pact with US to facilitate Seoul's monitoring of Korean peninsula via satellite
SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) – In May, when a coronavirus outbreak hit nightclubs in the South Korean capital of Seoul, health officials quickly unleashed their version of…
View More South Korea's elite contact tracers show the world how to beat Covid-19
SEOUL (REUTERS) – South Korean health authorities said novel coronavirus infections among people arriving from abroad could drive the number of new cases on Friday…
View More South Korea says daily coronavirus cases may top 100, driven by imported infections
SEOUL – Technologically advanced South Korea may be home to IT giants such as Samsung and LG but the country is still an “ugly duckling”…
View More South Korean start-up scene an 'ugly duckling' waiting to blossom: Israeli venture capitalist
SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s approval rating fell to its lowest level in four months, with many respondents blaming his government for…
View More South Korean President Moon Jae-in's approval rating falls amid soaring housing prices
SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) – South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in shook up his security team and appointed veterans in North Korea relations after Kim Jung Un’s regime…
View More South Korea shakes up security team after North Korea setbacks
SEOUL (REUTERS) – South Korea has the world’s lowest birth rate, according to a United Nations report released on Tuesday (June 30), as women in…
View More South Korean birth rate world's lowest in struggle for balance: Report
SEOUL (AFP) – The remains of nearly 150 South Korean soldiers killed in the Korean War were sent back to their homeland on Wednesday (June…
View More South Korean soldiers' remains repatriated decades after war
SEOUL (REUTERS) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has chaired a meeting of the ruling party’s Central Military Commission and decided to suspend military…
View More North Korea suspends military action plans against South Korea: KCNA