The 1st Cavalry Division has moved to oust three junior leaders and ordered reforms to its driver’s training program after a 20-year-old infantryman was killed last year in a rollover accident …
South Korea free trade deal still expected before end of 2020 — DTI
REUTERSFREE TRADE agreement (FTA) negotiations between the Philippines and South Korea are still due to conclude this year despite delays caused by the pandemic, the Department of Trade and Industry …
Covid-19: South Korea enforces limits on diners, shuts gyms in Seoul
The 17th consecutive day of triple-digit increases brought the national caseload to 19,699, including 323 deaths …
One of South Korea’s most reviled criminal defendants: A college student with COVID who lied to contact tracers
Facing a new surge in COVID-19 cases, South Korea threatens to prosecute people who evade quarantine, refuse to wear masks or lie to contact tracers.
Surge in South Korea coronavirus cases sparks hospital bed shortage concerns
South Korea recorded its 16th consecutive day of triple digit rises in new coronavirus cases on Saturday, extending a second wave of infections that is fanning concerns about a shortage of hospital …
Tip of the Spear: The North Korean People’s Army Is No Joke
Whether this impoverished country with an economy smaller than Panama’s can arm their infantrymen as well as their American and South Korean counterparts, while simultaneously affording an expanding …
Strengthening Typhoon Maysak to strike Japan, South Korea this week
An area of low pressure that was meandering over the Philippine Sea organized and strengthened Friday, becoming a tropical depression and then eventually Tropical Storm Maysak. This tropical feature …
U.N. North Korea investigator: Seoul’s singling out of defectors a mistake
A recent South Korean government decision to audit North Korean defector-led human rights groups has led to the increased stigmatization of activists.
South Korea puts force of law behind masks, quarantines, contact tracing
Facing a new surge in COVID-19 cases, South Korea threatens to prosecute people who evade quarantine, refuse to wear masks or lie to contact tracers.
South Korea doctors’ strike escalates even as Seoul races to tackle COVID surge
The South Korean government ramped up efforts to end a strike by thousands of the country’s doctors on Friday, as Seoul took the unprecedented step of restricting eateries in the capital in a bid to …