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Thirty-seven people are killed, several others are missing, and many are injured in South Korea when torrential rains cause landslides and the overflow of a dam in North Chungcheong, prompting the evacuation of over 4,700 people nationwide. Prime Minister Han Duck-soo calls for the deployment of the military to conduct search and rescue operations.
2023-07-15

A 10-tonne fishing boat collides with a 336-tonne fuel tanker near Yeongheung Island, South Korea, killing 13 of the 22 people on board the fishing boat. Two people remain missing.
2017-12-3

The number of confirmed MERS cases in South Korea rises by 9 to 50.
2015-06-6

North Korea warns against an underway joint military drill by South Korea and the United States, stating that the exercise could jeopardize a recent easing of tension on the Korean Peninsula.
2013-08-29

2013 Korean crisis: The annual session of North Korea's Parliament, the Supreme People's Assembly, takes place in Pyongyang, following repeated threats of violence by the leader Kim Jong-Un against South Korea and the United States. Choi Bu-Il is appointed Minister of Internal Security.
2013-04-1

South Korea's Financial Services Commission announces plans to pump more money into suspended local savings banks.
2011-09-27

Tropical Storm Meari leaves at least nine people dead and three missing as it strikes the west coast of South Korea, with heavy rains and strong winds causing flooding and the suspension of sea traffic around the Korean Peninsula.
2011-06-27

The Yonhap news agency reports that nine North Koreans have defected to South Korea across the Yellow Sea.
2011-06-15

Ten elderly people die and seventeen are injured following a fire in a nursing home in Pohang, South Korea.
2010-11-12

North Korea detains a South Korean fishing boat with four South Koreans and three Chinese on board.
2010-08-8