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Photo Story: South Korea-US joint air force drill

A handout photo made available by the Republic of Korea Air Force shows a South Korean FA-50 light attack fighter (L) and two US A-10 anti-tank aircraft fly in formation…

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Pelosi vows support to denuclearise N.Korea, plans to visit Korea border

SEOUL, Aug 4 (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her South Korean counterpart vowed on Thursday to support efforts to maintain a strong deterrence against North Korea and…

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Photo Story: Army helicopter drill in Icheon, South Korea

South Korean Army helicopters hover during a large-scale drill at the Army Aviation Command in Icheon, South Korea. A total of 16 AH-64E Apache, 13 UH-60P Black Hawks and five…

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Photo Story: South Korea-US joint air force drill

An undated handout photo made available by the Republic of Korea Air Force shows a South Korean KA-1 fighter (top) and two US A-10 anti-tank aircraft fly in formation during…

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South Korea’s Yoon to meet U.S., Japan leaders in Spain during NATO summit

SEOUL/YOKOHAMA, June 26 (Reuters) - South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will meet leaders of the United States and Japan on Wednesday during the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in…

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EPA’s Eye In The Sky: Seoul, South Korea

Cherry blossoms create a scenic tunnel on a four-kilometer road along the Seomjin River between the southern counties of Hadong and Gurye, some 422km south of Seoul, South Korea. Via…

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EPA’s Eye In The Sky: Gyeongju, South Korea

A general view of moats protecting Wolseong, the royal palace of the ancient Silla Dynasty (57 BC-935 AD) in Gyeongju, some 370km southeast of Seoul, South Korea, unveiled after repair…

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South Korea truckers return to work after strike

SEOUL, June 15 (Reuters) - South Korea's unionised truckers headed back on the roads on Wednesday after the union and the transport ministry reached a tentative late-night agreement, ending a nationwide strike…

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FACTBOX – Impact of strike by South Korean truckers on autos, steel, others

. June 13 (Reuters) - Thousands of South Korean truckers were on strike for the seventh day on Monday, protesting over pay as fuel costs surge, disrupting production, slowing port operations and…

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South Korean industries face losses worth $1.2 bln due to trucker strike, military deploys trucks to ship containers

SEOUL, June 13 (Reuters) - South Korean industries, including auto, steel, petrochemical and cement, face accumulated losses worth about 1.6 trillion won ($1.24 billion) as of Sunday due to the ongoing trucker…

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Striking South Korean truckers put brakes on port activity

ULSAN, South Korea, June 10 (Reuters) - Defiant South Korean truckers embarked on broader and more aggressive strike action on Friday, threatening to severely curtail deliveries of raw materials for semiconductors and…

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S.Korea, U.S. launch eight missiles in response to N.Korea missile tests

SEOUL, June 6 (Reuters) - South Korea and the United States said they fired eight surface-to-surface missiles early on Monday off South Korea's east coast, responding to a barrageof short-range ballistic missiles launched by North Korea on Sunday. The action is…

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South Korea, U.S. stage rare drills with air carrier

SEOUL, June 4 (Reuters) - South Korea and the United States staged their first combined military exercises involving an American aircraft carrier in more than four years, Seoul's military said…

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EPA’s Eye In The Sky: Legoland Korea, South Korea

Legoland Korea amusement park on Jungdo Island in the lake city of Chuncheon, north of Seoul, South Kore. The world's largest Legoland, a project by Britain's Merlin Entertainment Group, opened…

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Breakthrough infections may be less contagious

Fully vaccinated individuals who get infected with the coronavirus spread the infection to fewer people and are contagious for less time compared to people who are partially vaccinated or unvaccinated,…

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Vaccine protection wanes faster for cancer patients

COVID-19 vaccines are effective in most cancer patients, but less so than in the general population and the efficacy wanes more quickly, according to a large study. When the Delta…

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Biden says U.S., S.Korea alliance works to deter N.Korea, keep Indo-Pacific free

SEOUL, May 21 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Saturday the 70-year alliance between the United States and South Korea was built on opposition to changing borders by force, and working…

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UPDATED: Biden arrives in South Korea for talks with President Yoon

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea, May 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in South Korea on Friday, the first leg of his first trip to Asia as president. Biden was…

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South Korea’s Yoon says security situation tense amid talk of North Korea’s possible nuclear test

SEOUL, May 11 (Reuters) - South Korea's new president Yoon Suk-yeol said on Wednesday the security situation on the Korean peninsula was difficult, citing talk of a possible nuclear test…

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American aircraft carrier deploys off Korean peninsula amid tensions with North – official

The USS Abraham Lincoln strike group is operating in waters off the Korean peninsula, a U.S. official said, after South Korean media reported that the ships were deployed amid tensions…

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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says tens of thousands killed in Mariupol, seeks military aid from South Korea

Tens of thousands of people have likely been killed in Russia's assault on the southeastern city of Mariupol, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address to South Korean…

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South Korea’s president-elect wants U.S. nuclear bombers, submarines to return

SEOUL, April 6 (Reuters) - Advisers to South Korea's president-elect sought redeployment of U.S. strategic assets, such as nuclear bombers and submarines, to the Korean peninsula during talks held on a visit…

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N.Korea says it will strike with nuclear weapons if South attacks

North Korea opposes war but would use nuclear weapons if South Korea attacked, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said on Tuesday, in a warning that analysts said is…

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Tattooing ban upheld by South Korean court

The Constitutional Court in Seoul upheld a ban on tattooing this week, confirming South Korea as the only developed country that permits no one but medical professionals to perform the…

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South Korea’s total COVID cases top 10 million as crematoria, funeral homes overwhelmed

SEOUL, March 23 (Reuters) - South Korea's total coronavirus infections topped 10 million, or nearly 20% of its population, authorities said on Wednesday, as surging severe cases and deaths increasingly put a…

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New South Korean President to move presidential office to defence ministry

SEOUL, March 20 (Reuters) - South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, breaking with decades of tradition, said on Sunday he will move the presidential office from the Blue House to the defence ministry…

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South Korea elects conservative outsider as president in tectonic shift

SEOUL, March 10 (Reuters) - Conservative South Korean opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol rode to victory in a tight presidential election on a wave of discontent over economic policy, scandals and gender wars,…

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Korean Air to cancel passenger flights to Moscow, reroute cargo flights

SEOUL, March 4 (Reuters) - Korean Air Lines Co Ltd said on Friday it plans to cancel four passenger flights to and from Moscow for the next two weeks, adding that the…

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South Korea bans exports of strategic items to Russia, joins SWIFT sanctions

SEOUL, Feb 28 (Reuters) - South Korea will tighten export controls against Russia by banning shipments of strategic items and join Western countries' moves to block some Russian banks from the SWIFT…

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South Korea surpasses 1 million total COVID cases with daily record

SEOUL, Feb 6 (Reuters) - South Korea on Sunday surpassed one million cumulative COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, as health officials reported a daily record of 38,691 new infections…

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South Korea’s daily COVID-19 cases surge as new testing scheme begins

SEOUL, Jan 26 (Reuters) - South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases exceeded 13,000 for the first time on Wednesday, driven by the spread of the Omicron variant, as the government…

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Returned N.Korea defector struggled to resettle in South, lived meagre life

A former North Korean defector who made a risky and rare cross-border return home last week had struggled in South Korea, officials and media reports said on Tuesday, sparking fresh…

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S.Korea’s conservatives falter in election race over blunders, internal strife

Deepening internal strife and a series of political blunders are throwing the campaign of the leading presidential candidate from South Korea's opposition into disarray, sending his poll numbers nose-diving and…

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Person spotting crossing DMZ likely previous defector from N.Korea

SEOUL, Jan 3 (Reuters) - The person observed crossing the heavily fortified border from South Korea into North Korea last week is presumed to be a North Korean who had…

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South Korea’s Moon pardons disgraced Park amid tight presidential race

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in granted a pardon to former President Park Geun-hye, who was in prison after being convicted of corruption, the justice ministry said on Friday, amid a…

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South Korea: End to Korean War agreed to ‘in principle’

North and South Korea, the US, and China have agreed in principle to declare a formal end to the Korean War, says the South's President Moon Jae-in. But talks have…

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South Korea’s COVID-19 rules put some vaccinated foreigners in limbo

SEOUL, Dec 6 (Reuters) - South Korea imposed stricter measures on Monday to contain growing coronavirus infections and the Omicron variant, leaving some foreign residents vaccinated overseas effectively barred from…

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EPA’s Eye in the Sky: Chuncheon, South Korea

Farmers plant cabbage, or 'baechu' in Korean, in a field in Chuncheon , 85 kilometers northeast of Seoul, South Korea. Kimchi is made of baechu. Photo: EPA-EFE/YONHAP

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South Korea reports record-high COVID-19 cases, deaths

SEOUL, Dec 4 (Reuters) - South Korea reported a record daily 5,352 new COVID-19 infections and 70 deaths, while a nationwide total of nine cases of the Omicron variant have…

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U.S., South Korea to update war plans while urging diplomacy with North Korea

SEOUL, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The military chiefs of the United States and South Korea said on Thursday they plan to update contingency war plans and review their combined military…

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EPA’S Eye in the Sky: Boseong, South Korea

An aerial view shows rice fields in Boseong, some 397km south of Seoul, South Korea in September, as the harvest season nears. Photo - EPA-EFE/YONHAP

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Photo Story: South Korea gears up for Christmas

Customers walk through a Christmas light tunnel at Lotte Department Store in central Seoul, South Korea. Via EPA-EFE/YONHAP

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Photo Story: The Chrysanthemum festival in South Korea

People visit the 2021 Hampyeong Chrysanthemum Festival at a park in Hampyeong, South Korea, on Thursday, one day ahead of the opening of the 17-day event after two years of…

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Photo Story: The International Sign Fair in Seoul

A visitor looks at displays at the 2021 Korea International Sign & Design Show (KOSIGN) in Seoul, South Korea. Via EPA-EFE/YONHAP

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South Korea eases curbs, imposes vaccine passports in ‘living with COVID-19’ campaign

SEOUL, Nov 1 (Reuters) - New rules aimed at moving South Koreans toward "living with COVID-19" came into effect on Monday, with the easing of a range of curbs and…

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High demand for ‘Squid Game’ tracksuits cheers S.Korea’s struggling garment sector

The "Made in Korea" green tracksuits and pink jumpsuits worn by characters in Netflix's global hit "Squid Game " have proven a pre-Halloween bright spot for a South Korean garment…

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South Korea’s Moon vows ‘Korea space age’ after rocket test falters

GOHEUNG, South Korea, Oct 21 (Reuters) - South Korea's first domestically built space rocket blasted off on Thursday, but failed to fully place a dummy satellite into orbit, delivering mixed…

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South Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge from ‘Squid Game’

South Korean Internet service provider SK Broadband has sued Netflix to pay for costs from increased network traffic and maintenance work because of a surge of viewers to the U.S.…

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Flanked by nuclear missile, N.Korean leader says U.S., S.Korea threaten peace

Standing beside North Korea's largest missiles, leader Kim Jong Un said his country's weapons development is necessary in the face of hostile policies from the United States and a military…

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S.Korea’s Lee wins ruling party primary in presidential race overshadowed by scandal

SEOUL, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Lee Jae-myung became the presidential candidate for South Korea's ruling party on Sunday, hoping to overcome a property scandal and gather national support while conservative…

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South Korea to vaccinate pregnant women as it races to 80% target for adults

South Korea will begin taking reservations for coronavirus vaccines from pregnant women this week as the country accelerates its inoculation drive to reach its goal for immunizing 80% of all…

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Two Koreas reopen hotlines as North urges South to mend ties

The two Koreas on Monday restored their hotlines that the North severed months ago, with Pyongyang urging Seoul to step up efforts to improve relations after criticising what it called…

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EPA’s Eye in the Sky: Pyeongtaek and Asan bridge, South Korea

A photo made available by the Korea National Railway (KNR) shows a 5.9-kilometer railroad bridge linking the western cities of Pyeongtaek and Asan, South Korea, completed on 19 July 2021.…

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S.Korea’s Moon hints at dog meat ban amid debate over animal rights

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in said on Monday there might be a need to prohibit dog meat consumption amid debate over the controversial practice and growing awareness of animal rights.…

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Samsung Electronics Wins 48 Awards at IDEA 2021

Samsung Electronics announced that it has won 48 awards at the world-renowned International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2021, including seven Silvers, three Bronzes and thirty-eight finalists. The IDEA 2021 awards…

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North Korea says hope is alive for peace, summit with the South

SEOUL, Sept 25 (Reuters) - North Korea is willing to consider another inter-Korean summit if mutual respect between the rivals can be assured, state news agency KCNA reported on Saturday,…

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S.Korea successfully tests submarine-launched ballistic missile -Blue House

South Korea successfully tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Wednesday, becoming the first country without nuclear weapons to develop such a system as it aims to better counter North…

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