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South Korea reports its first confirmed deaths related to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in two people in their 90s who died last week at a senior care hospital in Gwangju.
2022-01-3

A South Korean transgender soldier says she will sue the armed forces after it discharged her. The soldier, Byun Hui-su, says she will take her claim "until the end, to the Supreme Court".
2020-01-22

South Korea decides against extending the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA). South Korean officials express that the exclusion from Japan's preferred trade list on 12 August eliminated any benefit to maintaining the agreement.
2019-08-22

A Russian cargo ship collides with a motorway bridge in the city of Busan, South Korea. The captain is reported to be drunk.
2019-03-1

South Korean prosecutors charge Unified Progressive Party MP Lee Seok-ki with plotting an armed revolt in support of North Korea.
2013-09-26

South Korea signs a new military plan with the United States to counter a possible incursion or a limited attack from North Korea.
2013-03-25

South Korea announces plans to start "scientific" whaling of minke whales at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Panama City.
2012-07-5

Nine North Korean defectors arrive in South Korea after staying in Japan for three weeks.
2011-10-4

South Korea's Financial Services Commission announces plans to pump more money into suspended local savings banks.
2011-09-27

South Korea and the European Union sign a free trade agreement.
2010-10-6