South Korea's Ministry of Agriculture has imposed a ban on pork imports from Germany following a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in the Brandenburg state.

South Korea has banned all pork imports from Germany after a recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in a herd of buffalo in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. The South Korean Ministry of Agriculture announced in a statement on Saturday evening that the ban was effective immediately.

Germany has not found any further cases of foot-and-mouth disease, agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on Wednesday, adding that experts were working day and night to establish the source of the country's first outbreak in decades.

The brief declaration of martial law in South Korea last month has drawn comparisons to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The attempted power grabs could hold lessons for other democracies.

SEOUL--Germany’s economy minister touches down in South Korea on Thursday in the first leg of a trip to Asia, seeking to deepen ties with the region’s fourth-largest economy as Berlin aims to ...

South Korea’s anti-corruption agency says President Yoon was detained after hundreds of its investigators and police officers arrived at his presidential compound.

Trump-policy outlook WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- Under his America First leitmotif, incoming U.S. President Donald Trump appears poised to bring a shift in the United States' approach to the alliance with South Korea,

Currently, Asiana operates six routes to Europe (including Istanbul as a European destination): Barcelona in Spain, Frankfurt in Germany, Istanbul in Turkey, London in the UK, Paris in France, and Rome in Italy. This means that Prague will be Asiana's first Central European destination (counting Germany as Western Europe).

Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser – already in custody – have been jailed from three-and-a-half to five years after being arrested in October 2023, charged with involvement with extremist groups, which is what the Russian state designates opposition groups as.

That the provocations exchanged between the Koreas – leaflets, balloons, and noise – were of relatively low intensity should give no one a sense of security.

In his November 7, 2017, speech to South Korea’s National Assembly, then-President Donald Trump unambiguously noted that “this alliance between our nations was forged in the crucible of war and strengthened by the trials of history.

Even to holders of powerful passports, an ever-shrinking number of countries considered safe to visit, means a world that is more difficult to navigate for travelers.