South Korea's basketball and football leagues returned after COVID-19 stoppage in May but fans had to be content with following the action at home.
The K-pop star breathed his last on Tuesday in South Korea. Yohan, whose real name was Kim Jeong-hwan, was just 28
North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday in a dramatic display of anger that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula and puts pressure on Washington and Seoul amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy.
South Korea has reported 19 new cases of the coronavirus, most from the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, where officials have been actively tracing transmissions linked to nightclubs and other entertainment venues.
FC Seoul is now facing penalties -- including expulsion from their own stadium for putting sex dolls on empty seats during a match last weekend.
Coronavirus worldwide cases have crossed 4.1 million mark taking confirmed patients toll to 4,100,609 including 280,431 deaths while 1,439,842 have recovered, as per figures by Worldometer.
The national baseball league in South Korea will resume on Tuesday, while the football league will also begin later this week.
North and South Korean troops exchanged fire along their tense border on Sunday, the South’s military said, the first such incident since the rivals took unprecedented steps to lower front-line animosities in late 2018.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not undergo surgery or any other medical procedure, a South Korean official said Sunday, amid speculation about his health that continues to linger even after he reappeared publicly in recent days.
South Korea has claimed that multiple gunshots have been fired from the North Korean side. As per local media reports, officials have claimed that gunshots from North Korean guard posts hit the South Korean posts in the DMZ.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may have kept away from state ceremonies for a key holiday in mid-April due to fears of catching the coronavirus, not because he is ill, South Korea's minister for North Korean affairs was quoted as saying by Reuters on Tuesday.
On Thursday, South Korea reported another single-digit number of new coronavirus cases, as the country's strict social distancing campaign and enhanced quarantine measures have helped contain the spread of the virus.
The ruling liberal party secured a resounding victory in South Korea’s parliamentary elections, which had the highest turnout in nearly three decades despite the coronavirus pandemic forcing social distancing at polling places.
A high-profile North Korean defector won a constituency seat in the South Korean general elections, becoming the first person hailing from Pyongyang to be chosen directly by South Korean voters as their representative.
North Korea on Saturday fired two presumed short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea’s military said, as it continues to expand military capabilities amid deadlocked nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration and a crippling global health crisis.
North Korea fired three unidentified projectiles off its east coast on Monday, South Korea’s military said, two days after the North threatened to take “momentous” action to protest outside condemnation over its earlier live-fire exercises.
Coronavirus: Two passengers with travel history to Italy and South Korea who were quarantined and kept at GMC Jammu have been tested positive for Coronavirus. Their treatment underway. With two more cases in India, the total number of COVID-19 positives have surged to 33.
South Korea on Wednesday confirmed 142 more cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus, raising the total number of infections to 5,328. The country has raised its four-tier virus alert to the highest "red" level.
Kim’s latest show of force is apparently aimed at boosting military morale, strengthening internal unity and showing that his country is doing fine despite outside worries of how the North would contend with an outbreak.
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