South Korea is once again struggling to contain the widespread surge of the novel coronavirus cases, and the COVID-19 hospitals are facing the brunt of it as hundreds are struggling to find a bed in the emergency wards.

Six people in South Korea die of COVID while waiting for hospital beds

This holiday season, a cat cafe in Seoul is allowing visitors to cuddle up with around 130 feline friends, some dressed up in red-and-white Santa costumes, ready to wish people a "meow-y Cat-mas."

Santa cats spread Christmas cheer in Seoul

South Korea on Monday banned sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the North, in a move rights activists condemned as a violation of free speech and a "misguided strategy" to please the North Korean regime.

South Korea bans sending leaflets into North

South Korea reported a record 950 daily coronavirus cases on Saturday, exceeding the late February peak of 909, with the president calling the country`s third wave of COVID-19 an "emergency".

South Korea reports record 950 cases in COVID-19 'emergency'

South Korea’s most infamous rapist was released on Saturday after serving 12 years in prison, sparking angry demonstrations and anonymous death threats that led to an increased police presence outside the predator’s home.

Protests erupt as South Korea’s most notorious rapist walks free

South Korea Superfreeze Inc's coldest warehouse is being prepared for the tonnes of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines that will soon make their way to the country. Located 65 km (40 miles) below Seoul and boasting temperatures frostier than an Antarctic winter, the facility would be the best, perhaps only, place in South Korea suitable for bulk storage of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, says company CEO Kim Jin-ha.

South Korean ultra-cold warehouse prepares to store Pfizer Covid vaccine

Legendary filmmaker Kim Ki-duk is no more. The iconic filmmaker died due to Covid-19 complications on Friday in Latvia. He was known for art house films. Kim Ki-duk made movies like 'Samaritan Girl', '3-Iron', ;Arirang', 'Pietà' and 'One on One'.

South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk dies due to Covid-19 complications: Reports

South Korea reported nearly 700 new COVID-19 cases. Health authorities announced measures to increase testing. Watch this video to know more.

South Korea reports nearly 700 new COVID-19 cases

South Korean furniture design student Kim Ha-neul is transforming discarded face masks into stools in an effort to show that the masks can be recycled and to draw attention to the environmental pollution they are causing amid the coronavirus pandemic.

South Korean student transforms used face masks into stools to promote recycling

South Korea authorities scrambled on Thursday to build hospital beds in shipping containers to ease strains on medical facilities stretched by the latest coronavirus wave, which shows little sign of abating with 682 new cases.

South Korea scrambles to build container hospital beds to combat third COVID-19 wave

After months of keeping the novel coronavirus spread under control, a new outbreak has scared the authorities of a threat bigger than the starting of the grim year.

'Biggest crisis': South Korea tightens COVID-19 restrictions amid record high surge

SEOUL, South Korea — Nearly a half-million South Korean high school seniors hunkered down on Thursday to take an annual university-entrance exam they had been preparing for since kindergarten — a nine-hour marathon of tests that could decide their futures.

The college-entrance exam is 9 hours long. COVID-19 made it harder.

South Korea has reached a deal with AstraZeneca PLC to purchase its coronavirus vaccine candidate as it seeks to secure supplies amid a resurgence of outbreaks. The government has said it was in final talks with global drugmakers including AstraZeneca, Pfizer Inc and Johnson & Johnson over their experimental vaccines, and launched a preliminary review of the former's product in October for potential fast-track approval.

South Korea reaches deal to buy AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine candidate

South Korea’s National Assembly passed a revision of its Military Service Act to let some male K-pop stars postpone their mandatory military service until they turn 30.

South Korea passes law allowing BTS stars to defer military service

South Korea’s parliament on Tuesday passed a bill to allow globally recognised K-pop artists such as BTS to postpone their mandatory military service to age 30. All able-bodied South Korean men aged between 18 and 28 must serve in the military for about two years as part of the country’s efforts to guard against North Korea.

South Korea passes law to allow BTS to postpone military service

South Korean netizens are fuming after China claimed a fermented cabbage dish as its own. Molly Gambhir tells you more about the row over Kimchi.

Gravitas: South Korea and China fight over a cabbage dish

From avoiding family members to skipping extra study at "cram schools", the coronavirus has forced nearly half a million South Korean test-takers and proctors to rethink their strategies ahead of a hyper-competitive university entrance exam this week.

South Korea coronavirus outbreak adds new stress to gruelling, eight-hour exam

Former South Korean dictator Chun Doo-hwan was found guilty of defaming a dead priest on Monday, in connection with a pro-democracy uprising his troops crushed 40 years ago.

Former South Korean dictator Chun guilty of defamation over massacre

South Korea has confirmed this year's first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) among domestic poultry. The agriculture ministry on Saturday said a virus detected from ducks at a farm in Jeongeup, a North Jeolla Province city about 290 kilometers south of Seoul, in a pre-shipment test has been confirmed as the highly pathogenic bird flu of the H5N8 strain.

South Korea confirms this year's first case of bird flu among poultry

South Korea's intelligence agency said it foiled the North's attempts to hack into its companies developing coronavirus vaccines. North Korea has so far not confirmed any coronavirus infection.

South Korea says it foiled the North's attempt to hack COVID-19 vaccine makers

The foreign ministers of South Korea and China have pledged to work together to advance bilateral ties and tackle regional and global issues -- including stalled nuclear talks involving North Korea and the coronavirus pandemic.

Diplomats from Seoul and Beijing vow to work on North Korea, COVID-19

A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the leader of an online sexual blackmail ring to 40 years in prison, the Yonhap news agency reported. Cho Ju-bin, 24, was found guilty of running an online network that blackmailed at least 74 women, including 16 teenagers, into what authorities called "virtual enslavement" by forcing them to send increasingly degrading and sometimes violent sexual imagery of themselves between May 2019 and February 2020.

South Korea sentences leader of sexual blackmail ring to 40 years in prison

When artist Kim Kang-eun found the slopes of Mount Jiri, South Korea's largest national park littered with rubbish during a two-day trip in 2018, she decided it was time to send out a message about taking better care of nature.

Drone footage shows South Korean artist transforming trash into art on mountains

South Korea reported another daily rise of more than 200 new coronavirus cases on Monday, a day after it tightened social distancing rules as it battles a third wave of infection.

South Korea introduces new curbs to contain the third wave of COVID-19

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