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All foreigners must bring negative Covid test to enter Korea

Starting Friday, all foreigners who enter Korea by air must submit a medical form verifying they have tested negative for Covid-19 from their country of departure.

2021-01-07

A rupture in K-quarantine

Quarantine failures are spilling over. The highly contagious coronavirus arrived in the country through a family from Britain. Deaths broke out at residential care center among patients in waiting due to a lack of hospital space....

2020-12-29

Tackling a mutated virus

A year has passed since the Chinese government formally reported to the World Health Organization on the outbreak of a “new respiratory infectious disease” in Wuhan on Dec. 31, 2019. The novel coronavirus has since infected more...

2020-12-28

British strain of coronavirus reaches Korea

A highly transmissible coronavirus variant that’s currently sweeping Britain has been detected among a Korean family who arrived from London last week, local health authorities announced Monday.

2020-12-28

British variant of coronavirus reaches Korea

Korean health authorities Monday confirmed the country’s first detection of a highly transmissible coronavirus variant now sweeping Britain.

2020-12-28

Flights from Britain being halted through Dec. 31

Flights to Korea from Britain are suspended until the end of the year amid fears of a more infectious coronavirus variant in that country.

2020-12-23

Endless self-praise

On Tuesday, when Britain became the first country to launch an immunization program for Covid-19, the Korean government vowed to incrementally bring home vaccines to cover 44 million people from the first quarter of next year....

2020-12-09

Supersonic jet sale to Argentina goes into tailspin

Korea’s plan to sell its FA-50 light combat aircraft to Argentina is dead in the water after Britain, which manufactures parts for the planes, barred the sale on the grounds of a decades-old arms embargo.

2020-11-02

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