Military reports 918 more COVID-19 cases
SEOUL-- South Korea's military reported 918 additional COVID-19 cases Friday, raising the total caseload among its service members to 186,494, the defense ministry said.The new cases included 651 from the…
July 15, 2022
S. Korea’s new COVID-19 infections continue doubling on-week to near 40,000
SEOUL-- South Korea's new coronavirus cases more than doubled in a week again on Friday to near 40,000 amid the fast spread of a highly contagious new omicron subvariant.The country…
Ex-NIS chief banned from travelling abroad over probe into handling of North’s killing of fisheries official
SEOUL-- Prosecutors banned former National Intelligence Service Director Park Jie-won from traveling overseas while putting Park's predecessor, Suh Hoon, on an entry alert list as part of investigations into the…
Top court rules cramped prison conditions violate human dignity
SEOUL-- The Supreme Court has ruled that prison cells with less than two square meters of floor space per person violate human dignity and ordered the state to pay compensation…