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 …
South Korea reports positive COVID-19 cases after death
Three people who were found dead in South Korea tested positive for the coronavirus following autopsies, as the country braces for a spike in cases after a church-related outbreak.
From hospital bed to jail cell: South Korea brings the hammer down with coronavirus prosecutions
South Korea has investigated more than 1,500 people for violating covid disease control laws as of mid August, referring more than 900 for prosecution.