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S. Korea to focus on easing virus restrictions for businesspeople in upcoming G20 teleconference

Mar 19, 2020

South Korea will make the case for minimizing travel restrictions aimed at combating the new coronavirus for businesspeople in next week's teleconference among the leaders of the Group of 20 nations,...
S. Korea evacuates 80 citizens from Iran on charter flight

Mar 19, 2020

The South Korean government sent a charter flight to Iran on Thursday and evacuated 80 people from the Middle Eastern country, which is struggling with a severe coronavirus outbreak. The Asiana A...
Third athlete on national fencing team tests positive for COVID-19

Mar 19, 2020

South Korea’s national fencing team reported that a third athlete on the team had been confirmed to have the novel coronavirus, health officials said Thursday. The 36-year-old athlete tested positiv...
170 countries, territories restricting entry from S. Korea over coronavirus fears

Mar 19, 2020

A total of 170 countries and territories were restricting entry or imposing stricter quarantine procedures for people from South Korea over coronavirus concerns on Thursday. Of them, 114 countries a...
US suspends routine visa services: State Department

Mar 19, 2020

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The United States is suspending routine visa services in most countries because of the coronavirus pandemic, the State Department announced late Wednesday. It said embassies and ...
White House task force sees S. Korea at end of epidemic curve

Mar 19, 2020

WASHINGTON -- The White House coronavirus task force said Wednesday it is seeing South Korea and China at the far end of their epidemic curves and studying the two countries to predict patterns in th...
S. Korean chartered flight heads home carrying 80 people evacuated from coronavirus-hit Iran

Mar 19, 2020

A South Korean government-arranged chartered flight departed for Seoul on Thursday, carrying 80 people evacuated from Iran due to the worsening outbreak of the new coronavirus. The Asiana Airlines p...
Seoul expands travel advisory to all countries

Mar 18, 2020

South Korea's foreign ministry said Wednesday it has issued a travel advisory for all countries previously not affected by its travel warnings prompted by the global spread of the new coronavirus. U...
US Embassy to suspend visa interviews as precaution against coronavirus

Mar 18, 2020

The US Embassy in Seoul said Wednesday that it will suspend all routine visa interviews this week in line with a State Department measure to respond to the new coronavirus outbreaks. The measure, se...
Foreign demands rapidly increasing for S. Korean-made coronavirus test kits, knowhow: official

Mar 18, 2020

A growing number of foreign countries have been asking about importing South Korean-made coronavirus diagnostic kits and other forms of aid to help curb the pandemic, a foreign ministry official said...
Korea sends military planes to secure more medical gowns amid anti-virus efforts

Mar 18, 2020

South Korea dispatched two military transport aircraft to Myanmar on Wednesday to bring back 80,000 sets of surgical gowns for use in dealing with the new coronavirus, the defense ministry said. The...
S. Korea to bring home part of rotational troops from South Sudan

Mar 18, 2020

South Korea will bring back part of its troops from South Sudan without sending a replacement contingent for the time being due to coronavirus concerns, government sources said Wednesday. The decisi...
Coronavirus spurs exodus of South Koreans from Europe

Mar 17, 2020

With the novel coronavirus spreading fast around the world, a growing number of South Koreans living in hard-hit countries such as Italy and France are seeking to flee home. There are some 5,000 ...
S. Korea, China, Japan hold conference call on coronavirus response

Mar 17, 2020

The foreign ministries of South Korea, China and Japan held a working-level conference call on Tuesday to discuss cooperation in stemming the regional and global spread of the new coronavirus, offici...
150 countries, territories restricting entry from S. Korea over coronavirus fears

Mar 17, 2020

Ten more countries have banned the entry of people from South Korea over coronavirus concerns, raising the total number of countries and territories imposing such entry or quarantine restrictions to ...