As the global death toll nears 400,000, fears continue to mount over the growing number of cases in Latin America, particularly Brazil where almost 620,000 cases have been recorded and over 34,000 …
North Korea threatens to shut liaison office with South
North Korea on Friday threatened to permanently shut a liaison office with South Korea as it continued to condemn its rival for failing to prevent activists from …
Testing the Waters: South Korea’s Waterparks Open Under New Anti-Virus Measures
More visitors are expected to follow as summer gets under way, but new social distancing rules will make cooling off at Caribbean Bay in Yongin, southeast of Seoul, more complicated. Under government …
South Korea: How to Fight Coronavirus
How did they manage to keep the death toll so low, and what can the rest of the world learn from South Korea? In January, a woman passenger had her temperature checked at Incheon International Airport …
U.S. ambassador to South Korea shares photo of George Floyd protest
The top U.S. diplomat to South Korea issued a statement on the protests that have swept the United States since the death of George Floyd.
The Latest: 39 new virus cases in South Korea, most in Seoul
South Korea has reported 39 new cases of the coronavirus over a 24-hour period, a continuation of an upward trend in new infections in the Asian …
Why South Korea Wants to Join Donald Trump’s G-11 Idea
At this stage, Trump’s G-11 is nothing but an idea floated in thin-air. Unanimity will be required to turn it into a reality. But if the concept goes ahead, it could pay dividends for South Korea.
Facelifts in vogue as South Korea adjusts to virus
While coronavirus has denied South Korea’s cosmetic surgeons their usual foreign tourists, they are welcoming a surge of local customers at the clinics that line the boulevards of the glitzy Gangnam …
South Korea plans to stop balloons to North Korea
For years, activists and defectors have sent messages criticising the North and its leadership across the border. But the South Korean government said the balloons caused “tension …
South Korea’s Coronavirus Formula: Heavy on Stimulus, Light on Lockdowns
Though South Korea was one of the first countries hit by the coronavirus, its economy actually grew in the first quarter. But can aggressive stimulus and a pandemic strategy that has avoided …