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Seven people are killed in a fire in a shopping mall in Daejeon, South Korea.
2022-09-26

The South Korea Joint Chiefs of Staff say that North Korea has launched an unidentified projectile ballistic missile. No confirmation has been given.
2022-01-4

The U.S. announces new travel restrictions to Iran and increased warnings against traveling to South Korea and Italy.
2020-02-29

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

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

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

South Korea confirms its third case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
2015-05-21