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N Korea completes ‘important’ test of spy satellite: State media

N Korea has released satellite imagery of South Korea’s Seoul and Incheon cities presumed to have been shot during test.

Al Jazeera · Dec 19, 2022

North Korea Fires Two Ballistic Missiles

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles Sunday, Seoul's military said, days after Pyongyang announced a successful test of a solid-fuel motor for a new weapons system. Military tensions on the Korean peninsula have risen sharply this year as Pyongyang has carried out an unprecedented blitz of weapons tests, including the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 18, 2022

Korean jab maker scouts Asean links

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 · Dec 17, 2022

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 · Dec 13, 2022

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

Salon · Dec 10, 2022

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 · Dec 9, 2022

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 · Dec 9, 2022

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 · Dec 8, 2022

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 · Dec 8, 2022

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 · Dec 8, 2022