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South Korea closes schools again as cases jump
More than 200 schools in South Korea have been forced to close just days after they re-opened, due to a new spike in virus cases. Thousands of students had earlier on Wednesday returned to school as the country began easing virus restrictions. But just a day later, 79 new cases were recorded, the highest daily figure in two months. Most of these cases have been linked to a distribution centre outside Seoul.
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North Korea halts all communications with South
North Korea announces it will cut all official communication channels with South Korea from Tuesday.
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N Korea 'blows up joint liaison office' with South
South Korea's Unification Ministry confirmed an explosion at the office, which is in the North.
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Defectors say South Korea investigations threaten N.Korean 'Underground Railroad'
A combination of coronavirus border closures and an unprecedented pressure campaign by a South Korean government keen to engage with North Korea may destroy networks defectors have long used to start new lives, activist groups say.
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South Korean Pastor, Whose Church Has 300+ COVID Cases, Tests Positive for Virus
The pastor led a massive anti-government rally over the weekend.
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Kim Jong Un remains in charge in North Korea, Seoul says
Kim Jong Un is not sharing power with sister Kim Yo Jong, and suggestions the North Korean leader is involving his sibling at the highest level of government are an exaggeration, South Korean officials say.
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AI Robots serve restaurant customers in South Korea
A burger shop in the South Korean capital is a bit different from typical fast food restaurants: Its key staff are robots. From order to pick-up, customers don't need a single face-to-face interaction. All they need to do is to click the menu they want on a kiosk touchscreen, pay and wait for a serving robot to bring their takeout bag to the pick-up spot.
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North Korean troops killed missing South Korean official then burned body: Seoul
According to media reports, the 47-year-old man had been attempting to defect to the North at sea from a fisheries patrol boat.
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Korea's first lunar orbiter to be launched in August 2022
Korea's first lunar probe will be launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida, the U.S. on Aug. 1, 2022 on the Falcon 9 projectile (rocket) of SpaceX.
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North Korean 'defector' crosses military buffer zone into South Korea
A North Korean man, believed to be a defector, has crossed the heavily-guarded border into South Korea through the military buffer zone between both countries. Officials have detained him and opened an investigation.
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iPhone 12 Mostly Made with Korean Parts
Korean-made parts account for the biggest proportion of components in Apple's new iPhone 12 that was unveiled last month. They include OLED screens and memory chips. Japan's Nikkei daily reported last week that a Japanese tech company disassembled an iPhone 12 and found that Korean parts dominate with 27.2 percent of parts, up from nine percent on the iPhone 11. U.S.-made parts account for 25.6 percent and Japanese parts for 13.2 percent.
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Facebook fined $6.1 million in South Korea for sharing user data without consent
South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has slapped Facebook with a 6.7 billion won (around US$6.1 million) fine for sharing user information without consent. The Korea Communications Commission kickstarted the investigation in 2018 before ultimately handing it off to the PIPC a few months ago. According to Yonhap News, the PIPC determined that the social network shared the personal information of 3.3 million South Korean users (out of a total of 18 million) to other companies without consent from May 2012 to June 2018.
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North Korea turns down $11 million of food aid from South
North Korea has rejected South Korean food assistance through the World Food Program, according to a South Korean press report. Donga Ilbo reported Monday Pyongyang recently turned down a South Korea-funded donation of 50,000 tons of rice. Seoul's unification ministry is also planning to recover the cost of the project, or $11.77 million, from the U.N. agency, the report said.
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Korean Entertainment Industry in Retreat as Virus Alerts Are Raised Again
Large parts of South Korea’s entertainment industry are reeling as the national government put capital city Seoul on the country’s second highest virus response footing. Concerts, award shows and movie premieres are being canceled, and all but essential staff are being told to work remotely.
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Apple Negotiating with Hyundai for Apple Car Production
Apple is planning to work with Hyundai on the upcoming Apple Car, according to a report from Korean site Korea Economic Daily.
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South Korean Court Orders Japan To Compensate 12 WWII Sex Slaves
The Japanese government rejected the ruling, increasing tensions between the two countries.
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A rapid, decisive response to COVID-19 doesn't just save lives. It helps the economy recover faster.
If the United Kingdom had adopted South Korean-style controls in response to the coronavirus pandemic, it would have saved about 65,000 lives through October 2020 and averted its worst economic decline in more than three centuries, according to a new study that modeled the countries’ coronavirus policies.
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How Korea Became a Forgotten War
During the Korean War, the United States inflicted unimaginable horrors on the Korean people. Yet today Americans know almost nothing about their government's role in war crimes and atrocities.
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Bodacious bikini babes: South Korean propaganda leaflets in the 1980s
It wasn’t just photos of dazzling Seoul skyscrapers and luxurious Samsung watches: There was a time when South Korean propaganda leaflets — designed to make North Korean soldiers envy their capitalist neighbor — featured smiling, bikini-clad women to entice potential defectors.
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LG Looking to Shut Down Smartphone Business After Failing to Find a Buyer
LG is looking to close down its entire smartphone division after failing to find a buyer for the ailing section of its business, according to the Korea Herald.
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