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.

Both South Korea and the United States reported their first Covid-19 cases on January 20. While the situation appeared dire for Korea, the coronavirus outbreak appears to be ebbing. Credit the lessons ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...