Sources: BBC News
The Seoul Central District Court issues an arrest warrant for former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol over five key charges related to his short-lived martial law declaration on December 3, 2024, placing him in custody for the first time since March due to concerns of evidence tampering. 2025-07-9
Hong Kong suspends the import of poultry meat and products from bird flu-affected areas in South Korea, Germany and Poland due to spread of highly pathogenic H5N8 in those areas. 2021-02-19
The number of new confirmed cases in South Korea reaches a nine-month high of 629 cases in the last 24 hours, the majority being from the Seoul Capital Area. The country now has 36,332 total confirmed cases, according to data from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. 2020-12-4
South Korea becomes the first East Asian country to legalize medical cannabis. 2018-11-25
South Korea shuts down the country's largest dog meat slaughterhouse. The move is lauded by animal rights activists. 2018-11-22
North Korea blows up ten of its front-line guard posts in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in accordance with agreements made with South Korea earlier this year. 2018-11-20
Two South Korean media personnel from KBS News are arrested for trespassing the home of a North Korean envoy in Singapore. 2018-06-7
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
Military forces of neighboring South Korea are placed on high alert following the death of Kim Jong-il, fearing possible retaliation from North Korea. 2011-12-19
Hundreds of South Korean troops, tanks, helicopters and jet fighters gather 12 miles from the border with North Korea to stage one of South Korea's largest ever live fire military drills in a "show of force" before its neighbour. North Korea describes the exercises as "warmongering", and threatens a "sacred war". 2010-12-23