Sources: Yonhap
An oil tanker ship explodes in Ulsan, South Korea, with flames subsequently spreading to an adjacent second tanker. At least ten people are injured. 2019-09-28
South Korean health authorities announce that they are searching for around 50 foreign nationals who may have been in contact with the recently confirmed MERS patient, including those who arrived in Incheon Airport from Dubai on the same flight last Friday. 2018-09-11
A South Korean man is diagnosed with the potentially deadly MERS virus and is being treated at a hospital in Seoul, the first such case in three years. 2018-09-8
North Korea accuses South Korea of kidnapping its citizens and demands their immediate return after Seoul's Ministry of Unification said 13 of them had defected to South Korea from China, where they worked in a Pyongyang-operated restaurant. China says that the 13 people, a male manager and 12 young female employees, had legitimate passports and had freely exited China. [http:--www.straitstimes.com-asia-east-asia-north-korea-claims-defectors-were-kidnapped-by-seoul ("The Straits Times")]North Korean defectors2016-04-12
South Korea announces an end to the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak that has killed 36 people since May 2015. The virus infected 186 people, with nearly 17,000 people confined to their homes and thousands of schools temporarily closing at the peak of the largest MERS outbreak outside Saudi Arabia, where it first appeared in 2012. 2015-12-23
South Korea reports three more deaths from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome bringing the death toll to 19 with 154 people diagnosed with the disease. 2015-06-16
Health officials in the United States are advising doctors to be on the lookout for MERS following an outbreak in South Korea. 2015-06-11
South Korea records its fifth death from MERS with 14 new cases reported. 2015-06-7
Four people have now died of MERS in South Korea with five new cases reported. [http:--www.bangkokpost.com-news-asia-583563-fourth-korean-dies-in-mers-outbreak (AFP via "Bangkok Post")]date=August 2019 2015-06-5
The number of cases in an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea rises to 12. 2015-05-29