SEOUL– Eight members of the South Korean football club Seongnam FC have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, putting the resumption of their season next week in jeopardy.Seongnam and the Korea Professional Football League (K League) said Monday …
SEOUL/POCHEON, South Korea– Five people were injured after an Army ambulance helicopter crash-landed at a military base Monday, authorities said.The helicopter made an emergency landing on the airstrip at an Army aviation battalion in Pocheon, 46 kilo…
SEOUL– Four more newly enlisted soldiers have tested positive for the new coronavirus, bringing the total of recent infections at an Army boot camp to 88, the defense ministry said Monday.The enlistees at the Korea Army Training Center have been in is…
SEOUL– South Korea’s daily new coronavirus cases rose by more than 1,000 for the sixth consecutive day Monday despite fewer tests over the weekend, as the greater Seoul area, the hotbed for the recent spike in new infections, is placed under the tough…
SEOUL– The South Korean professional baseball league decided on Monday to suspend its ongoing regular season following multiple cases of the novel coronavirus, becoming the first major sports circuit here to halt proceedings due to infections among it…
SEOUL– President Moon Jae-in on Monday met with archbishop Lazzaro You Heung-sik, the first South Korean appointed to a secretary position at the Vatican, Cheong Wa Dae said.You is set to leave for the Vatican later this month to serve as the new pref…
SEOUL– Prosecutors on Monday sought a seven-year prison sentence for the wife of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk at an appellate trial over academic fraud and financial misconduct.Chung Kyung-sim, whose husband was President Moon Jae-in’s close aide a…