SEOUL– Pope Francis has thanked Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, archbishop of Seoul, for contributing to the Vatican’s initiative to provide COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries, the Archdiocese of Seoul said Thursday.In May, the archdiocese sent the Va…
SEOUL– A local official handling contact tracing during the coronavirus pandemic is accusing professional baseball players of covering up an illegal gathering in violation of social distancing rules.The official from the Gangnam Ward office in souther…
SEOUL– U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will visit South Korea next week for talks expected to center on North Korea and other issues facing the two countries, the foreign ministry said Thursday.Sherman is scheduled to arrive in Seoul on W…
SEOUL– South Korean President Moon Jae-in had phone talks Thursday with Vietnam’s top leader, Nguyen Phu Trong, on ways to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation on major regional and global issues, Cheong Wa Dae said.It marked the first summit-lev…
“Good friends can disagree,” U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the two leaders answered questions about their differences on a controversial Russian natural gas pipeline.Biden said the United States and…
South Korea reported 1,600 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, a slight drop from the record number the previous day, as it battles to contain an outbreak on board a military anti-piracy vessel operating overseas, Trend reports citing Reuters.The country t…
SEOUL– Nearly half of South Korean adults are in favor of some opposition lawmakers’ proposals to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, a poll showed Thursday.In the poll of 1,016 people nationwide over the age of 18, 48 percent said the…
GWANGJU, South Korea– A man who contracted COVID-19 was fined heavily Thursday for lying about his whereabouts during a contact tracing probe by health authorities.A district court in Gwangju, 330 kilometers south of Seoul, sentenced the man in his ea…