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Thousands of Samsung Electronics workers begin a three-day strike in South Korea over demands for better pay and more annual leave.
2024-07-8

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper and South Korean Minister of National Defense Jeong Kyeong-doo announce that their countries will postpone their annual joint military air exercises to help facilitate the peace process.
2019-11-17

Seo Ji-hyeon, a leading figure of the Me Too movement in South Korea, files a suit against former South Korean chief prosecutor Ahn Tae-keun and the government for physical and psychological distress.
2018-11-5

Chaba leaves at least four people dead, and three others missing in South Korea.
2016-10-5

While South Korea prepares for the 2018 Winter Olympics, the Associated Press reports the country has covered up widespread human rights violations, including rapes and murders, when it swept so-called vagrants off the streets in the years prior to the 1988 Games in Seoul. Thousands of victims have received no compensation, nor public recognition nor an apology. The AP says two early attempts to investigate were suppressed by senior officials and the current government refuses to revisit the case and is blocking a push by an opposition lawmaker.
2016-04-19

South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports North Korea appears to conduct a submarine-launched ballistic missile test that ended in failure with no indication that the missile successfully ejected from the vessel and took off.
2015-11-28

General Walter L. Sharp, the Commander of United States Forces Korea, warns that North Korea is likely to launch more attacks but states that US and South Korean forces are prepared.
2011-06-20

The Yonhap news agency reports that nine North Koreans have defected to South Korea across the Yellow Sea.
2011-06-15

The Bank of Korea increases the main interest rate in South Korea by a quarter percentage point to 3% due to concerns over inflation.
2011-03-10

Two North Koreans are jailed in South Korea over an assassination plot on a high-ranking North Korean defector, Hwang Jang-yop.
2010-07-1