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Prosecutors in South Korea request that former president Yoon Suk Yeol be detained amid the ongoing investigation against him for insurrection.
2025-07-6

South Korea raises its terrorism alert level to the second-highest level, citing strong chances of an attack from North Korea on its overseas diplomatic offices.
2024-05-2

South Korea reports a record 53,926 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,239,287.
2022-02-11

South Korean actor O Yeong-su wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in the "Squid Game" television series, becoming the first person from South Korea to win the honor.
2022-01-9

North and South Korea prepare to receive Typhoon Bavi which is already lashing the South Korean island of Jeju flooding roads, toppling trees, ripping off signboards and knocking down lampposts as it passed over waters off the island’s western shores. No casualties are reported.
2020-08-26

The fire onboard South Korean ship FV "Don Wong 701" in the Port of Timaru, New Zealand, enters its third day. At least four vessels – MV "Searuby", MV "San Granit", MV "Longview Logger" and MV "Jeppesen Maersk" – are delayed from arriving.
2018-04-11

A North Korean soldier defects to South Korea after swimming across the Han River, the second North Korean defection in a week.
2017-06-18

U.S. and South Korean officials confirm that North Korea launched a test missile from the west coast city of Kusong. The projectile travelled to the east for 30 minutes and 435 mi reaching an altitude of more than 1245 mi before landing in the Sea of Japan, 60 mi south of the Russian city of Vladivostok.
2017-05-14

A South Korean court sentences Kim Han-sik, the chief executive of Chonghaejin Marine, operator of the Sewol, to ten years in jail for negligence and embezzlement.
2014-11-20

The South Korean defence ministry says the launch of a satellite into space by North Korea was a disguised test of a 10,000 km range missile.
2012-12-23