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South Korea reports a record 383,665 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours.
2022-03-12

South Korea reports a record of 56,431 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1.35 million.
2022-02-13

In a tit-for-tat move, South Korea removes Japan from its preferred trade list.
2019-08-12

The fire onboard South Korean ship FV "Dong Won 701" in the Port of Timaru, New Zealand, enters its fourth day. The port resumes limited operations despite the ongoing blaze and the Transport Accident Investigation Commission starts an investigation despite being unable to board the vessel.
2018-04-12

The United States begins deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system in South Korea.
2017-03-7

Choi Soon-sil, the woman at the centre of a South Korean political scandal involving her friend President of Korea Park Geun-hye, is detained for questioning.
2016-11-1

North Korea blocks a delegation of South Korean businessmen from delivering food and supplies to 200 of their staff inside the closed Kaesong joint industrial zone.
2013-04-17

North Korea threatens to take "strong physical countermeasures" if South Korea co-operates with new United Nations Security Council resolutions against it.
2013-01-25

South Korea starts work on a new facility to rehouse refugees from North Korea to avoid both food shortages and political oppression.
2011-07-7

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