South Korea is set to start building its first aircraft carrier next year, and acquire fighter jets to operate on it. South Korea had said last year that it would build a "multi-purpose large transport vessel.

South Korea is building its first aircraft carrier

From thermal screening to disinfection lamps: Bus stands in South Korea become shelters to battle coronavirus

More than 5,900 people from 11 provinces and cities left their homes, and some 4,600 of them remain at temporary shelters following warnings of disasters

Flooding near South Korea's Yongbyong plant | Intense rainfall in Korean peninsula | WION

A combination of an unprecedented pressure campaign and coronavirus border closures and an by a South Korean government keen to engage with North Korea may destroy networks defectors have long used to start new lives, activist groups say.

South Korea investigations threaten North Korea's 'underground railroad'

South Korea is witnessing its longest monsoon in seven years that has triggered floods and landslides in the country. The heavy rain has left 30 people dead and 12 missing, as per officials said on Sunday.

30 people die in South Korea as heavy rain trigger floods and landslides

At least 21 people have died after 46 days of heavy rains in South Korea, with the country`s longest monsoon in seven years causing more flooding, landslides and evacuations on Saturday.

South Korea floods, landslides kill 21 as heavy rains continue

Many people in South Korea are reducing their income in a bit to realize the dream to buy a house. Even with unemployment spiking due to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea, people are giving up their jobs so that they can make themselves eligible for a quota to buy a house. Watch report.

Your Story: Rising house prices hurt South Koreans, Housing prices in Seoul soar

Around 1,300 houses have been submerged or buried, while damage was also reported at 705 warehouses and cattle sheds.

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After 42 days of consecutive rains in South Korea, 14 people have lost their lives and more than 1000 people were forced out of their homes. This has been the longest monsoon in seven years.

South Korea floods: Landslides kill 14 in South Korea | Longest monsoon in 7 years

South Korean officials are working to keep more than a thousand people displaced by flooding safe and healthy with anti-coronavirus measures in place at crowded shelters as the government weighed declaring disaster zones on Wednesday.

Coronavirus complicates South Korea flood response as hundreds gather in shelters

South Korea is witnessing its longest monsoon in seven years that has triggered floods and landslides in the country. 14 people have been killed and over 1,000 people have been forced to leave their homes after 42 consecutive days of rain, as per authorities said on Tuesday.

Rain-battered South Korea witnesses 14 deaths due to landslides

Torrential rain pounded most of South Korea on Sunday, leaving six persons dead and seven others missing, officials said.

Over 360 people left homeless, several riverside structures damaged due to heavy rain | S Korea

As the pandemic continues to batter the global economy, South Korea has recently recorded its worst GDP growth since the Asian financial crisis

South Korea GDP to show recession; Factory activity shrinks

South Korean authorities arrested the founder of a secretive Christian sect at the centre of the country's largest outbreak of COVID-19 infections on Saturday for allegedly hiding crucial information from contact-tracers and other offences.

South Korea sect leader arrested over coronavirus outbreak

In South Korea, the worst of coronavirus impact has passed and the country's factory production jumped at the fastest rate in more than 11 years. Watch report.

WION Dispatch: South Korea's factory production bounce back much faster than expected

The US ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris’ has shaved his mildly controversial mustache, saying it was too uncomfortable to keep while wearing a coronavirus mask during South Korea’s notoriously hot summer. Watch report.

Most controversial mustache of US Envoy Harry Harris’ in South Korea

Japan on Tuesday warned South Korea against a statue erected in the country showing Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bowing to a "comfort woman" on display. Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, said on Tuesday if reports of the statue on display were true, it would be an "unforgivable" breach of international protocol.

'Comfort woman' row: Japan warns South Korea against Abe's statue

North Korea reported new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, according to state media. This is the first time that the country has acknowledged that the virus may have crossed into the country.

North Korea reports 'suspected' case of COVID-19 in defector

South Korean epidemiologists have found that people were more likely to contract the Wuhan virus infection from members of their hosehold. A study published in the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) focuses on 5,706 “index patients” who had tested positive for the virus.

COVID-19 more likely to infect people at home: Study

A Chinese giant panda at South Korea’s Everland amusement park has given birth to a cub, the zoo said on Wednesday, the first baby panda born in the country and a rare event for an endangered species.

First-ever giant panda cub born in South Korean zoo

Hit by the COVID-19 economic slowdown of another developed economy South Korea has joined Japan, Thailand, and Singapore in a technical recession. Watch report.

Recession in South Korea: Exports plunge the most since 1963

The South Korean economy plunged into recession in the second quarter in its worst decline in more than two decades as the coronavirus pandemic battered exports and social distancing curbs paralyzed factory output.

South Korea enters recession as exports plunge by most since 1963

A small South Korean survey of people with no history of COVID-19, but living in a city with the most cases, showed that one in nine had antibodies to the novel coronavirus, indicating the virus may have spread more widely than thought.

Undiagnosed virus infections could be 27 times higher in South Korea's Daegu city

People are more likely to contract the new coronavirus from members of their households than from contacts outside the home, according to South Korean epidemiologists' new study.

People are more likely to be infected with coronavirus at home: Study

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