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South Korea authorises Novavax COVID-19 vaccine and preparing to distribute the first of Pfizer's antiviral pills on Wednesday. According to the health ministry, “Over 21,000 of Pfizer's antiviral pills, called Paxlovid, will arrive in…

Signage for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games is displayed on a subway train in Beijing on January 6, 2022. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP) North Korea has slammed the US-led diplomatic boycott of February’s Beijing Winter Games, state…

Former South Korean President, Park Geun-hye was set free Friday under a special pardon granted by the incumbent President Moon Jae-in. Park, who had been imprisoned for 57 months over corruption charges, reportedly received the…

South Korea will soon roll out a pilot project to use artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition and thousands of closed-circuit video cameras to track the movement of people infected with COVID-19. The nationally-funded project in…

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have signed a $717m defence deal on Monday. The contract was signed during a four-day visit by Moon to Canberra. The South Korean president is the first…

South Korea announced on Friday that people visiting public spaces will have to show vaccine passes, amid a surge in COVID-19 infections and six confirmed cases of the Omicron variant. The government also re-imposed limits on private…

South Korean President Moon Jae-in is calling for a declaration as an attempt to restart talks with North Korea, that could eventually end a state of war that has technically lasted since the 1950s. However, such a declaration is seen as…

The Famous South Korean drama series 'Squid Game' has officially broken the record as most-watched television series of all time on Netflix. According to the streaming platform the series had hit 111 million worldwide views…

South Korea established a panel on Wednesday to debate a strategy on how to live with COVID-19 in the long-term, as the country seeks to phase out coronavirus restrictions. According to the health ministry, the government aims to relax…

Military aircraft with nearly 400 evacuated Afghans arrived in Soul, where the government said it was amending the law to allow long-term stays for those who worked on South Korean projects in Afghanistan before the Taliban seized power.…