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The South Korean National Intelligence Service says that North Korea has started sending troops to fight with Russia in Ukraine. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol calls for a security meeting and says the international community must respond with "all available means".
2024-10-18

CEOs of several South Korean companies ask President Moon Jae-in to pardon Samsung's chairman Lee Jae-yong, who was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment for bribery, embezzlement and other offences. Moon did not elaborate but had said in March that he would consider public opinion. Before taking office in 2017, Moon had said that he would not pardon those convicted of serious economic crimes.
2021-06-2

Solomon Islands bans all travelers from China, South Korea and Japan. Health minister Dickson Mua also says that the country has suspended flights to Brisbane, Australia, and banned all civil servants from overseas travel in an effort to contain COVID-19.
2020-03-14

Authorities announce that the summit between the governments of North Korea and South Korea will take place on April 27, 2018.
2018-03-29

At least eighty-five people are killed in Taiwan and tens of thousands stranded in airports as an unprecedented cold snap hits several Asian countries including China and South Korea.
2016-01-25

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un orders preparations for strategic rocket strikes on the US mainland at an overnight meeting with top army commanders, in response to the use of nuclear-capable B-2 Stealth Bombers in joint US-South Korea military drills. China appeals for calm on all sides.
2013-03-29

South Korea expresses concern over China's plan to monitor the disputed Socotra Rock area with unmanned drones. [http:--english.yonhapnews.co.kr-national-2012-09-25-92-0301000000AEN20120925008400315F.HTML (Yonhap)] [http:--mainichi.jp-english-english-newsselect-news-20120925p2g00m0in069000c.html (Kyodo News via "Mainichi Shimbun")]date=August 2019
2012-09-25

The President of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, commences the first official visit by a South Korean leader to Myanmar since 1983, when North Korean commandos attempted to assassinate the then-President, Chun Doo-hwan, in a bomb attack.
2012-05-14

South Korea approves additional humanitarian aid worth 176 million won to North Korea.
2011-04-4

Group of Twenty finance leaders agree to give 6% more International Monetary Fund votes to developing countries, though the U.S. retains its veto power, in a meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea.
2010-10-23