T oday, south Korea’s COVID-19 response strategy sits atop three pillars: fast and free testing, expansive tracing technology, and mandatory isolation of the most severe cases. Each pillar was ...

SEOUL -- South Korea has widely been praised for its relatively successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to its rigorous contact tracing, mass testing capacity, and high degree of ...

South Korea had tested a total of 66,652 people for the COVID-19 coronavirus virus as of 4 p.m. local time Thursday, whereas Japan had reported administering roughly 1,890 tests and the U.S. only 445.

South Korea is one of the only countries in the world that has brought a major COVID-19 outbreak under control. It's not currently enforcing stay-at-home orders, and most businesses are open.

How South Korea accelerated its coronavirus testing, while early missteps left the U.S. lagging far behind, is a story of flexibility, preparedness and painful lessons from a past fumble.

A Covid-19 patient getting treatment in Daegu, South Korea, on March 2, 2020. Seung-il Ryu/NurPhoto via Getty Images Workers disinfect a public station in Daegu on February 29, 2020.

According to Johns Hopkins data, South Korea has 893 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus as of Monday evening, second only to 77,658 cases in Mainland China, where the first cases of the ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea President Lee Jae Myung has nominated a former vice finance minister, Koo Yun-cheol, to be ...

Tourism officials from ASEAN member states and the Republic of Korea met in Danang, Vietnam, last week to explore ways to ...

South Korea President Lee Jae Myung has chosen a former vice finance minister, Koo Yun-cheol, to be his finance minister, his ...