SEOUL, South Korea’s daily new coronavirus cases fell back below 500 on Saturday as sporadic infections continued to be reported amid worries over a potential resurgence after the government eased social distancing rules earlier this week.The country r…
SEOUL, South Korea on Saturday confirmed an outbreak of the H5N8 bird flu virus at a farm in a southeastern county, bringing the total number of cases from local poultry farms to 100.The latest case of the highly pathogenic bird flu was reported at a f…
SEOUL, South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. will supply its antibody treatment for COVID-19 without a profit margin in South Korea, its chairman has said.Celltrion’s CT-P59 won the South Korean drug safety agency’s conditional approval…
JEONGSEON, South Korea, Firefighters and government authorities struggled Saturday to put out a forest fire in a mountain in the northeastern county of Jeongseon, with their efforts hamstrung by strong winds and rough terrain.The authorities deployed 1…
WASHINGTON, No decision has yet been made in terms of whether or how the U.S. will reposition its troops overseas, but the country remains committed to revitalizing its alliances and partnerships, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Friday.The U.S…
SEOUL — South Korea’s arms procurement agency said Saturday that Indonesia’s reported plan to purchase F-15EX jets from the U.S. defense giant, Boeing, and France’s Rafale fighters is “separate” from a joint warplane development project between the tw…
WASHINGTON, Any U.S. effort to denuclearize North Korea will not be as effective without the support and close cooperation of both South Korea and Japan, a U.S. State Department official said Friday, highlighting the importance of the two U.S. allies w…
SEOUL, A Harvard professor, criticized for his depiction of victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery as prostitutes, will “significantly” revise another controversial paper on the 1923 massacre of Koreans in Japan, a co-editor of an academic handbook …
SEOUL, South Korean stocks are likely to face volatile trading next week following this week’s choppy trading, as concerns about a U.S. Treasury yields hike may increase foreign investors’ selling appetite for local stocks.The benchmark Korea Composite…
SEOUL, The Bank of Korea (BOK) is expected to freeze its policy rate at a record low of 0.5 percent next week, as a third wave of coronavirus infections hammered consumption and job markets, a poll showed Saturday.In a survey by Yonhap Infomax, the fin…