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SEOUL: A South Korean company is looking for a business opportunity with partners from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to help develop the regional market for its Covid-19 vaccine.

Bangkok Post

Coping after Itaewon: South Koreans process tragedy of Halloween crowd crush

On October 29, a night when the streets of South Korea's capital Seoul were packed with Halloween revellers, 158 people were crushed to death in a narrow alley and nearly 200 others were injured. Most of the victims were in their twenties and thirties and had come to the popular…

France 24

North Korea tests new engine for long-range missile strikes

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test of a new solid-fuel rocket engine that could enhance the state’s ability to fire off quick-strike, longer-range missiles for delivering nuclear warheads.

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Seoul: UN agency to boost efforts to monitor N. Korean nukes

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency has told South Korean officials that his organization will push to bolster its capacity to verify North Korean nuclear activities and raise international awareness of the urgency of its weapons program

The Independent UK

S.Korea says to coordinate with U.S., Japan on N.Korea sanctions

South Korea, Japan and the United States will coordinate sanctions and close gaps in the international sanctions regime against North Korea, Seoul's envoy for North Korea said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Film shows how K-dramas fail adoptees

In Davy Chou's film, Park Ji-min is a transracial adoptee who impulsively ends up seeking out her birth family

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Google Year In Search: Two London attractions were the most searched-for

This year, people around the globe searched for two of London’s top landmarks.

Evening Standard

More South Korean adoptees demand probes into their cases

Nearly 400 South Koreans adopted as children by families in the West have requested South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigate their adoptions through Friday’s application deadline, as Seoul faces growing pressure to reckon with a child export frenzy driven by dictatorships that ruled the country until the 1980s

The Independent UK

Koreans about to become one year younger

SEOUL: South Korean lawmakers have approved a measure that would revise the way the country tallies a person’s age, ending a system that counted newborns as a year old and meaning that most of its citizens are about to get younger.

Bangkok Post

Vaccine security an ongoing mission, forum told

SEOUL: South Korea has shown its commitment to Asean by sharing its experience and promoting partnerships to secure vaccine security, says the country’s Vice Foreign Affairs Minister.

Bangkok Post

North Korean hackers exploited Seoul Halloween tragedy to distribute malware, Google says

North Korean government-backed hackers referenced the deadly Halloween crush in Seoul to distribute malware to users in South Korea, Google's Threat Analysis group said in a report.The malware was embedded in Microsoft Office documents which purported to be a government report on the tragedy that killed more than 150 people…

Reuters

A Picture and its Story 2022

Reuters photographers witnessed 2022's most important events, from the horrors of war in Ukraine and other armed conflicts to unprecedented natural disasters and from the flight of refugees and migrants to protests around the globe.

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A Randy's Donuts in Seoul adds Los Angeles flavor to South Korea

Sometimes you leave Los Angeles only to find that it has arrived at your destination long before you.

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'We are not your enemy', say South Korean truckers striking for minimum wage protections

Inside five white tents outside the Uiwang container depot near Seoul, about 200 striking truckers huddle around gas heaters, trying to fight the bitter cold and the government narrative that they are well paid "labour aristocracy."

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Thousands protest in South Korea in support of truckers, government orders them back to work

Thousands of demonstrators representing organised labour groups march in Seoul, denouncing government attempts to force thousands of striking truckers back to work.

WEKU

Feminists are protesting against the wave of anti-feminism that's swept South Korea

Many men in South Korea claim to be victims of gender discrimination, a movement turbocharged by President Yoon. Meanwhile, women lag far behind men in pay and face unrealistic beauty standards.

The Independent UK

Seoul arrests ex-top security official over border killing

South Korean prosecutors arrested the country’s former national security director over suspicions he engaged in a cover-up to hide details and distort the circumstances surrounding North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official near the rivals’ sea boundary in 2020

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The Independent UK

Seoul places new sanctions on North Korea over arms buildup

South Korea is sanctioning eight North Korean individuals and seven organizations suspected of engaging in illicit activities to finance the North’s growing nuclear weapons and missile programs

The Independent UK

North Korea's Kim calls for meeting to review state affairs

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for a major political conference before the end of the year to talk about key state affairs, where he’s expected to address his increasingly tense relations with Washington and Seoul over the expansion of his nuclear and missile programs

Reuters

Grieving South Korean father seeks justice for Halloween crush victims

Taking time off work, South Korean bus driver Cho Gi-Dong has visited a crypt where the remains of his 24-year-old daughter are kept almost every day since she perished in a deadly crush on the night of Halloween a month ago.

The Independent UK

South Korea in demographic crisis as many stop having babies

Many young people in South Korea have chosen not to marry or have children, citing a change of views toward a marriage and family life and uncertainty of their future

The Independent UK

Kim's sister makes insulting threats to Seoul over sanctions

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made insult-laden threats against South Korea for considering unliteral sanctions on the North

Reuters

North Korea slams South Korea's Yoon, warns sanctions will fuel more hostility

North Korea on Thursday denounced Seoul's push to impose additional sanctions on Pyongyang after its missile launches, calling South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and his administration "idiots" parroting the United States, state media KCNA reported.

Reuters

China resumes streaming South Korean content after six-year suspension

A Chinese streaming platform has resumed distributing South Korean content after suspending it for nearly six years, South Korean officials said on Tuesday, in what Seoul called a sign of Beijing's readiness to improve ties.

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