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North Korea blames people touching ‘alien things’ near border with South Korea for Covid outbreak

North Korea has claimed that its Covid outbreak started because people were touching “alien things” near the border with South Korea.

Evening Standard

North Korea says Covid 19 crossed its borders thanks to 'alien things' and balloons

It is blaming South Korea

Wales Online

N. Korea suggests balloons flown from South brought COVID-19

North Korea is suggesting its COVID-19 outbreak began in people who had contact with balloons flown from South Korea

The Independent UK

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North Korea blames 'alien things' and balloons from south for severe Covid outbreak

North Korea has bizarrely told people in the country that Covid patients had touched "alien things coming by wind" as it attempted to blame the South for the virus

Daily Mirror

North Korea blames COVID-19 outbreak on ‘alien things’ from South

North Korea blamed its COVID-19 outbreak on “alien things” likely sent by balloon across its border with South Korea, saying a teenage soldier and a five-year-old girl in April were the first people in the country infected by coronavirus.

Tribune News Service

South Korea says leaflets sent by defectors unlikely to be cause of COVID in North Korea

South Korea's unification ministry said on Friday there is "no possibility" of COVID-19 entering North Korea via contaminated balloons sent by activists in the South.

Reuters

North Korea blames 'alien things' near border with South for COVID outbreak

North Korea claimed on Friday that the country's first COVID-19 outbreak began with patients touching "alien things" near the border with South Korea, apparently shifting blame to the neighbour for the wave of infections in the isolated country.

Reuters

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Report: Samsung SDI Is Preparing Pilot Line For Tesla 4680 Batteries

A new unofficial report from South Korea says that Samsung SDI is preparing a pilot production line for Tesla's 4680-type cylindrical battery cells.

InsideEVs

Middleby Expands Offerings In Ice - Read How

Middleby Corp (NASDAQ:MIDD) has acquired Icetro, a maker of ice, soft serve, and slush machines used worldwide in commercial food service. Deal terms were not disclosed. Icetro has annual sales of ~$40 million and is headquartered in South Korea, with U.S. operations based in Anaheim, California. The acquisition furthers MIDD's Asian manufacturing…

Benzinga

The 15 Best Korean Romance Movies Ever Made

They'll shatter your heart, then put it back together again.

Marie Claire

Hyundai Delays Next-Gen Nexo Hydrogen Fuel Cell SUV To 2024: Report

The South Korean carmaker had planned to kick off mass production and sales of the next-generation Nexo in the second half of 2023.

InsideEVs

South Korea's Yoon warns at NATO summit of threat to 'universal values'

South Korea's president warned a NATO summit of the threat to universal values at a time of new conflict and competition, a reference to Russia's aggression in Ukraine and China's engagement with Russia, a South Korean official said.

Reuters

Weed warning from Singapore, S Korea

Thai embassies in South Korea and Singapore are the latest authorities to warn travellers from Thailand not to bring cannabis-based products or cannabis extracts with them. Otherwise, they may face a jail term or even the death penalty.

Bangkok Post

Leaders of U.S., South Korea and Japan agree closer cooperation over North Korea threat

The leaders of the United States, South Korea and Japan on Wednesday expressed deep concern over North Korea's missile tests and said they would cooperate more closely to address the threat posed by Pyongyang.

Reuters

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The Hindu

Chennai’s The Little Theatre is back on stage with a theatre festival for young audiences

The Little Theatre is set two unleash two years of pent-up creativity in its returning edition of The Little Festival, with workshops, South Korean theatre, local favourites and more

Birmingham Post

Mulberry sees profits leap as shoppers return to stores post-Covid

The Somerset-based retailer opened five new stores in China and four in South Korea over the last financial year

The Independent UK

South Korea approves first homemade COVID-19 vaccine

Health officials in South Korea have approved the country's first domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 years or older, adding another public health tool in the fight against a prolonged pandemic

Bangkok Post

South Korea, Japan resume flights between capitals as Covid-19 eases

SEOUL: Flights between the capitals of South Korea and Japan resumed on Wednesday after being suspended for more than two years due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Bangkok Post

Travellers reminded cannabis illegal in other countries in the region

The Thai embassy in Seoul has warned people going from Thailand to South Korea that cannabis and cannabis-based products are illegal there and carry stiff jail terms, with deportation and the likelihood of being barred from future entry.

Reuters

South Korea violated the rights of deported North Korean fishermen - U.N. investigator

South Korea's 2019 decision to deport without legal process two North Korean fishermen suspected of murdering their shipmates violated human rights principles, a U.N. investigator said on Wednesday, after prosecutors reopened the case.

The Guardian - AU

North Korea accuses US of building an ‘Asian Nato’ ahead of security talks

Biden due to meet Japanese PM Kishida and South Korean leader Yoon for talks amid escalating missile tests by Pyongyang

Bangkok Post

Thailand down South Korea at FIVB Nations League

Thailand began their third and final week of the preliminary round of the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League with a win over South Korea in Bulgaria on Wednesday.

Reuters

S.Korean office workers hit convenience stores as 'lunch-flation' bites

Office worker Park Mi-won had never bought her lunch from a convenience store, until her favourite lunch buffet recently raised prices by more than 10% to 9,000 won ($7) as South Korean inflation soared to a 14-year high.

The Independent UK

S. Korean prosecutors grant ex-president temporary release

South Korean prosecutors granted former President Lee Myung-bak a temporary release from prison over health concerns Tuesday after he served less than three years of a 17-year sentence handed down for corruption

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What To Expect From South Korea’s First NATO Summit

South Korea’s president has vowed to make the country a “global pivotal state” bolstering cooperation with like-minded countries to promote liberal democratic values of freedom, peace, and prosperity.

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