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South Korea confirms 15 new cases of coronavirus

Reuters
Updated as of Feb 19 11:45 AM

South Korea reported 15 new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, bringing the total number of people infected in the country to 46. Read more »

'Parasite' director Bong Joon-ho gets hero's welcome in South Korea

Dogyun Kim and Chaeyoun Won, Reuters
Posted at Feb 16 10:37 PM

"Parasite" director Bong Joon-ho was greeted with cheers and applause as he returned to South Korea on Sunday after his historic four-Oscar win. Read more »

PH returns 3rd batch of trash from South Korea

Angelo Andrade, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 16 01:19 PM

Fifty containers of trash at the Mindanao International Container Terminal in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental are set to be returned to South Korea on Sunday. Read more »

S.Korean mother 'reunites' with dead daughter in virtual reality show

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 14 09:00 PM

A tearful reunion between a mother and her dead daughter via advanced virtual reality for a South Korean television has become an online hit, triggering fierce debate about voyeurism and exploitation. Read more »

'Crash Landing on You' smashes South Korea TV ratings

Sunghee Hwang, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Feb 14 03:53 PM

SEOUL - South Korea's biggest current television hit is a surreally unlikely tale of a billionaire heiress who accidentally paraglides into the North and falls in love with a chivalrous army officer serving Kim Jong Un. Read more »

Bong Joon Ho’s path from Seoul to Oscar dominance

Choe Sang-Hun, The New York Times
Posted at Feb 14 11:11 AM

The streets of Seoul are as much a character in “Parasite” as the actors themselves, and they played a formative role in shaping Bong Joon Ho’s politicized worldview and intense focus on the searing inequality in the pulsing city of 10 million people.   Read more »

'Parasite' reflects deepening social divide in South Korea

Hyonhee Shin, Reuters
Posted at Feb 11 08:16 AM

SEOUL (Reuters) - The black comedy “Parasite” is a tale of two South Korean families - the wealthy Parks and the poor Kims - mirroring the deepening inequality in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Read more »

What the Bongslide says about the Academy. Times critics on the Oscars.

Manohla Dargis, Wesley Morris and A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Posted at Feb 11 07:37 AM

The morning after the Oscars and the historic best picture win for Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite,” the first South Korean film to take that prize in 92 years of competition, we asked Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott, our co-chief film critics, and Wesley Morris, a critic at large, to discuss their reactions and what it means, if anything, for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, specifically, and Hollywood in general. Read more »

Breaking the subtitle barrier: S.Koreans celebrate historic Oscar wins of 'Parasite'

Sangmi Cha and Hyonhee Shin, Reuters
Posted at Feb 10 07:13 PM

South Korean social media erupted in celebration on Monday after the dark comedy "Parasite" became the first non-English language movie to win the Best Picture award, already having netted three other Oscars in a historic first for the country. Read more »

'Parasite' wins Oscar for best international feature film

Bill Tarrant, Reuters
Posted at Feb 10 12:09 PM

South Korea's "Parasite," a pitch-black comedy about haves and have-nots in modern Seoul, won the Oscar for best international film on Sunday after also taking home the award for best original screenplay. Read more »

In sickness and in health: mass wedding defies virus fears

Kang Jin-kyu, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 07 07:45 PM

Thousands of couples -- some in facemasks -- tied the knot in a mass Unification Church wedding Friday, despite concerns in South Korea over the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. Read more »

Love conquers 2019-nCoV

Jung Yeon-je, AFP
Posted at Feb 07 03:39 PM

A couple wearing protective face masks attend a mass wedding ceremony organized by the Unification Church at Cheongshim Peace World Center in Gapyeong on Friday.  Read more »

Visa-free entry to Jeju Island for Pinoys suspended due to coronavirus outbreak

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 07 02:43 PM

Filipino tourists bound for Jeju Island in South Korea will no longer be allowed to visit the tourist spot without a visa, the Bureau of Immigration said Friday as the East Asian country guards against the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus.   Read more »

WATCH: iKON returns as 6-member group with 'Dive'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 06 08:03 PM

Korean boy group iKON returned Thursday with their newest single, "Dive." Read more »

WHO investigates Singapore conference linked to foreign virus spread

John Geddie, Reuters
Posted at Feb 06 12:45 PM

At least 3 employees of a multinational company that held a meeting of more than 100 international staff in Singapore have contracted the new coronavirus, sparking a World Health Organization investigation of the case.   Read more »

South Korean ‘mask hoarders’ threatened with jail

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 04 06:49 PM

South Korean traders who hoard face masks and other products used to battle the coronavirus outbreak will face up to 2 years in prison, the government announced Tuesday.   Read more »

South Korean woman tests positive for coronavirus after Thailand visit

Reuters
Posted at Feb 04 03:31 PM

A South Korean woman has tested positive for coronavirus after visiting Thailand, South Korean officials said Tuesday, the first foreign tourist reported to have been infected after a visit to the southeast Asian nation. Read more »

Chinese guide arriving from Japan found with new coronavirus in South Korea

Kyodo News
Posted at Feb 01 08:30 PM

While he was in Japan, the male guide had contact with a person who had been found to have been infected with the virus, and he took a test in South Korea after the infected person in Japan recommended that he do so as well, according to the ministry. Read more »

South Korea's Moon urges calm amid protests over coronavirus quarantine sites

Josh Smith and Sangmi Cha, Reuters
Posted at Jan 30 11:03 AM

South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged residents not to give in to fear as the country prepared to evacuate the first of around 700 citizens from the epicenter of the new coronavirus epidemic in China on Thursday. Read more »

Samsung sees gradual chip rebound after Q4 profit plunge

Hyunjoo Jin and Heekyong Yang, Reuters
Posted at Jan 30 09:44 AM

The cautiously optimistic outlook from the world's biggest memory chip and smartphone maker draws a line under its worst year since 2015. It also echoes positive guidance from peers like Intel Corp and TSMC, signalling a rebound in chip prices after a lengthy slide. Read more »