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FDA issues norovirus warning on frozen oysters from South Korea
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning that certain half-shell oysters that are frozen and raw harvested in South ...
North Korean leader furious over failed destroyer launch, vows to arrest those responsible
A statement from North Korea on its handling of the botched launch came after leader Kim Jong Un expressed fury over the ...
South Korea offers up to US$29,000 cash for marriage to tackle birth-rate crisis
As South Korea continues to grapple with plummeting birth rates and fears of regional depopulation, local governments are now expanding their efforts beyond childbirth subsidies to include cash ...
She found her daughter after 44 years. Now she's suing Korea's government
The last memory Han Tae-soon has of her daughter as a child is in May 1975, at their home in Seoul. "I was going to the ...
The US and South Korea just rewrote the rulebook on salvaging a downed F-35
When an F-35A belly-landed in South Korea in 2022, engineers wrote it off. But a novel plan to remove and reattach its wings ...
South Korea to prepare support for food exporters to weather US tariffs
South Korea will prepare support measures for agricultural and food exporters, while closely monitoring the impact of U.S.
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South Korea's Female Free Divers May Have Evolved to Thrive Underwater, Study Finds
On Jeju Island, 50 miles south of the Korean peninsula, senior women regularly dive up to 60 feet beneath the ocean’s surface ...