The “nut rage” heiress who forced a plane to turn back over her macadamias is fighting a bitter battle — with activist shareholder support — against her brother for control of the family airline, highlighting resistance to reform in South Korea’s chaebols.
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A South Korean hospital has introduced phone booth-style coronavirus testing facilities that allow medical staff to examine patients from behind the safety of a plastic panel, the latest innovation in the country’s drive to track down infections.
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South Korea, once grappling with the largest coronavirus outbreak outside China, saw its newly recovered patients exceed fresh infections for the first time Friday, and reported the lowest number of new cases in three weeks.
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South Korea struggled to find enough beds for its sick, Italy grappled with a rising number of deaths and concern grew over an expanding outbreak in the United States on Wednesday as the coronavirus that tormented China expanded elsewhere.
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South Korea’s birth rate hit a new low Wednesday as authorities announced barely 300,000 babies were born last year in the nation of 51 million people.
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The U.S. and South Korean militaries, used to being on guard for threats from North Korea, face a new and formidable enemy that could hurt battle readiness: the new Chinese coronavirus that has infected more than 1,200 people in South Korea.
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South Korea reported another large jump in new virus cases Monday a day after the president called for “unprecedented, powerful” steps to combat the outbreak that is confounding attempts to stop the spread.
Read moreSouth Korea’s president said Sunday that he was putting his country on its highest alert for infectious diseases, ordering officials to take “unprecedented, powerful” steps to fight a soaring viral outbreak, while a continent away in Italy, authorities battled to contain Europe’s first major outbreak of the virus.
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President Donald Trump is not a fan of “Parasite,” his biggest complaint being that the subtitled movie was made in South Korea. The U.S. distributor of the movie says it’s because Trump can’t read.
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Schools were shuttered, churches told worshipers to stay away and some mass gatherings were banned as cases of the new coronavirus swelled Friday in South Korea, a new front in the widening global outbreak.
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South Korea reported its first death from the new coronavirus on Thursday while the mayor of a southeastern city urged his 2.5 million people to refrain from going outside as viral infections linked to a church congregation spiked.
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Nearly a year after he was bailed out of jail while facing corruption charges, former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was taken back into custody on Wednesday after an appeals court sentenced him to a lengthier prison term of 17 year over bribery, embezzlement and other convictions.
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South Korea’s Constitutional Court dismissed Friday an appeal by survivors of wartime sexual slavery over a controversial deal between Seoul and Tokyo, as the two nations sought to mend ties in the face of mounting threats from Pyongyang.
Read moreA growing number of South Korean women are banding together to reject rigid patriarchal norms and vowing never to wed, have children or even date and have sex.
Read moreU.S. officials on Tuesday walked out of negotiations with South Korea over demands that Seoul increase its contributions to maintaining the U.S. military presence on its soil.
Read moreFormer South Korean wartime sex slaves went to court in Seoul Wednesday to demand compensation from the Japanese government, in a case that is likely to exacerbate tensions between the neighbors.
Read moreIn an extremely unusual case, South Korea deported two North Korean fishermen on Thursday after finding they had killed 16 other crew members on their boat and then fled to South Korean waters, Seoul officials said.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered the destruction of South Korean-made hotels and other tourist facilities at the North’s Diamond Mountain resort, apparently because Seoul won’t defy international sanctions and resume South Korean tours at the site.
Read moreNearly 20 pro-Pyongyang South Korean students broke into the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Seoul Friday, displaying banners demanding Harry Harris leave the country, in an embarrassing security breach.
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