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South Koreans are dealing with burnout and loneliness by getting pet rocks
Millennials in South Korea are using pet rocks to help with feelings of burnout and isolation. The …
Mikhaila Friel
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South Korea bans fast-paced music in gyms and limits treadmill speeds to a walk as COVID-19 cases soar
Gym-goers will not be able to angrily run to "good 4 u" by Olivia Rodrigo or bench press to the bea…
Andrea Michelson
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The 'Delta Plus' variant has spread to nearly 30 countries, but low case numbers are a sign it won't overtake Delta
It's not yet clear whether Delta Plus is more transmissible than Delta. Vaccines may still hold up …
Aria Bendix
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Biden set to welcome K-pop group BTS to White House to 'address anti-Asian hate crimes and discrimination'
The Korean boy band will visit the White House on Tuesday, May 31 at the tail-end of AANHPI Heritag…
Bryan Metzger
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One dose of Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine was highly effective at preventing coronavirus in older people, real-world data from South Korea suggests
It is not clear from South Korea's data how long protection against COVID-19 from a single shot las…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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Former North Korean defector who made rare cross-border return home could have been a spy or simply unhappy with life in the South, experts say
The former North Korean defector arrived in the South in November 2020, and worked as a janitor bef…
Ashley Collman
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People who haven't contracted COVID-19 yet have no friends, Korean doctor says
Ma Sang-hyuk's comments, which were shared in a now-deleted Facebook post, come as South Korea has …
Waiyee Yip
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South Korea to develop its own COVID-19 vaccine late next year, said Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun
South Korea will be able to develop its own Covid-19 vaccine late next year, in addition to foreign…
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North Korea did not respond to Biden's offer to send over COVID-19 vaccines as the hermit country deals with a surge of cases
"We've offered vaccines, not only to North Korea but to China as well, and we're prepared to do tha…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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US is willing to send North Korea COVID-19 aid despite Kim Jong Un's vows to ramp up its nuclear program, official says
Officials said North Korea may be planning a long-range missile test to occur while President Joe B…
Kelsey Vlamis
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North Korea said it is suffering an explosive outbreak of 'fever' with 350,000 cases — just one day after announcing its first ever COVID case
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the massive outbreak showed a "grave sign of lapses in our ant…
Bill Bostock
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North Korea claims it has found its first ever case of COVID-19 and says it has activated a 'maximum emergency' procedure
North Korea closed all its land borders in 2020 after cases of COVID-19 began to spread fast across…
Bill Bostock
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South Korea capital adds more coronavirus cases
Most most of them are in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, where health authorities ha…
PTI
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South Korea reports 27 new coronavirus cases
On Saturday, KCDC senior official Kwon Jun-wook said at least 108 infections were linked to workers…
PTI
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South Korea reports 16 new cases of coronavirus
Thirteen of the new cases came from the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area where more than …
PTI
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South Korea reports 23 new coronavirus cases
The country was reporting around 500 new cases a day in early March before using aggressive tracing…
PTI
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South Korea reports 12 new coronavirus cases
The Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday said 10 of the new cases came from…
PTI
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South Korea reports 27 new coronavirus cases
At least 1,138 infections have been linked to international arrivals, but such cases have declined …
PTI
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South Korea reports 10 new coronavirus cases
The state-run Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the additionally reported cases…
PTI
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South Korea prepares for another potential Coronavirus wave
South Korean health authorities said on Thursday that they were preparing for a possible second wav…