Sport

Olympics-South Korea team told to remove banners at Olympic village

Editorial Bureau July 17, 2021

The banners had been hung from the team’s balconies in the Olympic village, home to the 10,500 athletes from more than 200 countries who will compete at the Games starting next week. “I have been informed that the banners have been taken down by the South Korean Olympic

Asia

South Korea sends team to handle coronavirus on anti-piracy ship

Editorial Bureau July 15, 2021

SEOUL (SOUTH KOREA) -South Korea is sending a medical team to the Middle East to tackle a coronavirus outbreak on one of its ships on anti-piracy patrol while at home, new daily infections are hovering around record levels with 1,600 reported on Thursday. South Korea was for months a coronavirus success story as it kept […]

Asia

South Korea halts baseball season amid toughest COVID-19 curbs

Editorial Bureau July 12, 2021

SEOUL (SOUTH KOREA) – South Korea’s pro baseball league suspended its season on Monday after five players tested positive for COVID-19, and the country’s toughest anti-coronavirus curbs yet took effect in Seoul to fight a record-setting outbreak. A mass testing system helped South Korea suffer lower COVID-19 death rates than other developed countries last

Asia

South Korea confirms third consecutive record high new COVID-19 cases -KDCA

Editorial Bureau July 10, 2021

SEOUL (SOUTH KOREA) -South Korea recorded its highest-ever number of new daily COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said on Saturday. This is the third consecutive day of record highs in new infection cases. Starting on Monday, coronavirus curbs will be tightened to the strictest level possible […]

Asia

South Korea to go for mix-and-match of COVID-19 vaccine doses for 760,000 people

Editorial Bureau June 18, 2021

SEOUL (SOUTH KOREA) – Some 760,000 South Koreans who have got a first dose of AstraZeneca Plc’s COVID-19 vaccine will be given Pfizer Inc’s vaccine as a second. This has been due to delays in shipment by global vaccine sharing scheme COVAX, the government said. Several countries, including Canada and Spain, have already approved such […]

Asia

South Korea contributes $900,000 for UN Myanmar aid

Editorial Bureau June 17, 2021

SEOUL (SOUTH KOREA) – South Korea has contributed $900,000 to a UN-led humanitarian aid initiative for Myanmar, showed UN data on Thursday. A spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said earlier data on its financial tracking service showing a contribution of $300,000 by North Korea was wrong and it […]

Asia

Quarter of South Koreans receive at least one vaccine dose before schedule

Editorial Bureau June 16, 2021

SEOUL (SOUTH KOREA) – South Korea has vaccinated 25% of its population with at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine two weeks before the schedule, said authorities on Wednesday. This has placed the country on track to meet a target of 70% by September. The milestone follows a stepped-up drive that injected a daily average […]

Asia

South Korea building collapses amid demolition, kills nine

Editorial Bureau June 9, 2021

SEOUL (SOUTH KOREA) – At least nine people were killed and eight suffered injuries when a five-story building collapsed suddenly on Wednesday amid a demolition process and came apart on a busy street in South Korea, officials at a local fire station said. The building collapsed as it was being demolished in Gwangju, some 270 […]

World

South Korean troops will receive J&J vaccine shots from US military

Editorial Bureau May 17, 2021

SEOUL (SOUTH KOREA) – As South Korea struggles with a shortage of COVID-19 shots, US defence ministry has informed that US military will offer some Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) coronavirus vaccines for South Korean troops The offer comes days before President Moon Jae-in is due to visit Washington for his first summit with U.S. President […]

Asia

South Korea looks up to US for COVID-19 vaccine aid

Editorial Bureau April 21, 2021

SEOUL (SOUTH KOREA) – South Korea hopes its ally the United States will help it tackle a shortage of coronavirus vaccine in return for test kits and masks Seoul sent to Washington earlier in the pandemic, the foreign minister said on Wednesday. The government has drawn fire from the media for not doing enough to […]