South Korea bans large gatherings and removes fans from professional sports in unprecedented restrictions, as New Zealand keeps schools and businesses shut.
South Korea, China hold highest-level talks since coronavirus outbreak
Yang Jiechi, a member of the Communist Party Politburo, was meeting South Korea’s new national security advisor, Suh Hoon, in the southern port city of Busan to discuss coronavirus cooperation, …
Seoul infections drive COVID-19 spike in South Korea
South Korea reported the most new coronavirus cases in months on Friday, spurred by a surge in the capital city of Seoul.
Bangladesh, South Korea explore opportunities in tourism
Choi said the market held more potential as last year more than 17,000 arrivals in South Korea were from Bangladesh …
Church at centre of South Korea coronavirus outbreak says government fabricating tests
South Korea’s battle to contain a new outbreak of the coronavirus has been complicated by a political and religious fight between President Moon Jae-in’s administration and some of his fiercest …
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un delegates some powers to sister Kim Yo Jong, South Korean intelligence says
Kim Jong Un has reportedly given his sister, Kim Yo Jong, partial authority to oversee “general state affairs” in order to ease the North Korean leader’s workload, according to South Korean …
Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, now ‘de facto second in command’
Ruler cedes some powers to sibling, according to Seoul, who will be responsible for relations with US and South Korea …
Asia Today: Seoul surge appears to spread around South Korea
South Korea has added its most new virus cases in months, driven by a surge around the capital that appears to be spreading nationwide …
Coronavirus live news: rightwing rally linked to South Korea surge; Ardern hits back at Trump
Another 1,204 fatalities in Brazil push continent’s toll higher; Russian vaccine trial to involve 40,000 people; UK’s second city Birmingham faces lockdown …
South Korean coronavirus infections fan out nationwide from church cluster
Novel coronavirus infections have spread nationwide from a church in the South Korean capital, raising fears that one of the world’s virus mitigation success stories might yet suffer a disastrous …