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Meteorological authorities in South Korea issue a heat wave warning for most of the country, with temperatures expected to exceed 34 °C.
2022-07-25

South Korea ends their COVID-19 restrictions two years after they were imposed. However, the mask mandate will remain in place.
2022-04-18

South Korea reports a record 90,443 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1.55 million.
2022-02-16

South Korea reports a record 4,116 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 425,065.
2021-11-24

Vietnam receives their first shipment of 117,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine from South Korea.
2021-02-24

The Kyodo news agency reports that the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo that could complicate relations with China and South Korea.
2014-10-17

Typhoon Sanba makes landfall in South Korea near the port of Yeosu causing the cancellation of flights and other transport services; one person is reported dead.
2012-09-17

Seventeen people are killed in landslides in South Korea caused by heavy rain including eight in the town of Chuncheon.
2011-07-27

A South Korean deep sea trawler sinks in the Southern Ocean two thousand kilometres south of New Zealand with at least five people dead and seventeen missing.
2010-12-13

The Government of South Korea announces the completion of the world’s longest seawall in a reclaimed tidal flat in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province.
2010-04-26