South Korea will prohibit private social gatherings of more than five people and shut down ski resorts and major tourist spots nationwide starting from Christmas Eve as it contends with surging corona …
Gatherings of five or more banned in South Korea
SOUTH KOREA will ban private gatherings of five or more people during the upcoming holiday season to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
South Korea defends ban on anti-Pyongyang leaflets after ‘inane’ law slammed in US
Senior South Korea’s politicians have moved to defend the government’s decision to criminalise anti-Pyongyang leaflet launches following stinging criticism from abroad over the new law. Activists have …
Spotify to Launch Localized Service in South Korea in 2021
Music streaming giant Spotify is to launch a localized service in South Korea in the first half of 2021. The move connects K-pop artists, such as BTS and Blackpink who are enjoying global success, …
South Korea Stock Market Tipped To Remain Rangebound
The South Korea stock market has moved higher in two of three trading days since the end of the two-day slide in which it had slipped …
Kiwis’ Covid Christmas: Stuck in Vietnam in ‘the nicest possible way’
However, in an agreement expected to take effect next month, Vietnam will allow South Korean business people to travel between the two nations without completing the mandatory 14-day quarantine. The …
South Korea returns a San Diegan’s 40-year-old favor with a COVID-19 ‘survival box’
Forty years ago, Paul Courtright went to South Korea as a Peace Corps volunteer, helping a Third World country find its footing after decades of foreign occupation, poverty, disease and war.Last month …
China can lead, and Japan and South Korea can follow, in cutting coal finance in Southeast Asia
Every line of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s new climate commitments will be analysed and interpreted to the bone. But the most salient part of the Climate Ambition Summit, held on December 12, was …
First major COVID-19 outbreak hits Thailand as South Korea sets infection record
Thailand reported more than 500 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily tally in a country that had largely brought the pandemic under control.
Coronavirus: Sydney curbs widen as cluster in suburbs grows; South Korea cases reach new high
New South Wales recorded 30 new Covid-19 cases as an outbreak in Sydney’s northern beaches suburbs continues to grow.