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On Friday, warships from South Korea, the US, and Japan started the first trilateral anti-submarine drills in five years. This came after North Korea started testing missiles again this week, likely in response to training between South Korean and US forces.
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The most violent storm to hit South Korea in years pummeled the country's southern area Tuesday, dumping a meter (3 feet) of rain, damaging roads and downing power lines, leaving 66,000 houses without power and thousands fleeing to safer ground.
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South Korea joined the rush to the moon on Thursday by sending up a lunar orbiter that will look for good places to land in the future.
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Given that the network has experienced seven disruptions in the past year, South Korean developers may be reluctant to accept the new Solana's fund bait.
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The members of South Korean boy band BTS could become $54 million richer when their record label goes public. Big Hit Entertainment — the Seoul-based music firm behind the world’s hottest K-pop act — revealed in its Wednesday IPO filing that it gave each of BTS’s seven members 68,385 shares last month “for the purpose …
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South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday indicted Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong on charges of stock price manipulation and other financial crimes, setting up what could be a protracted legal battle to determine whether the 52-year-old billionaire illegally cemented his control over the business giant. Lee’s attorneys denied the charges, which were also filed against 10 other …
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South Korea confirmed Monday that the country is experiencing a second wave of coronavirus infections centering around Seoul after a holiday weekend in early May caused cases to spike. “In the metropolitan area, we believe that the first wave was from March to April as well as February to March,” said Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of …
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North Korea destroyed a de facto embassy shared with its peninsula neighbor on Monday, further escalating tensions just hours after threatening to move military forces back into the demilitarized zone. South Korea said the destruction of the building, which was opened with great fanfare in 2018 to facilitate communications in the absence of formal diplomatic …
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A new coronavirus study conducted in Korea suggests that those who test positive for coronavirus after recovering from the initial onset of the virus are no longer infectious. The study, released by the Korean CDC on Monday night, showed that 285 patients who still tested positive for the coronavirus despite apparently recovering were unable to …
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Homophobia has surged in South Korea after a coronavirus outbreak in the country’s capital was linked to ‘gay clubs’. A 29-year-old man thought to be at the epicentre of the latest cluster was tracked by authorities after going to a number of nightclubs in Itaewon, Seoul. He went out on Friday, May 1, and tested positive for the Covid-19 …