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March 8, 2021

South Korea finds no ties between COVID-19 vaccine and deaths: report

South Korea on Monday announced it found no association between eight recent deaths and the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, according to a report.

March 8, 2021

Harvard professor ignites uproar over 'comfort women' claims

Hundreds of scholars have condemned the article, with both North and South Korea expressing outrage at the claims.

March 8, 2021

Rep. Michelle Steel: International Women’s Day – Rewriting ‘comfort women' history worsens horrors of abuse

Harvard Professor J. Mark Ramseyer wrote an article – “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War” – about Korean comfort women that was criticized by individuals, organizations and groups around the world as factually inaccurate and misleading

February 22, 2021

Harvard Medical School study claims slavery reparations would have mitigated coronavirus spread

Researchers from Harvard Medical School are claiming that slavery reparations would have helped limit the spread of COVID-19 for Black people in the U.S.

February 19, 2021

South Korea hotel apologizes for exposing nude sauna guests to outside world

The operators of a hotel on South Korea’s Jeju Island are apologizing to guests after a honeymooning couple discovered that the windows in its second-floor sauna facilities — which were advertised as having mirrored, one-way glass— did not have mirrored, one-way glass at all.

February 17, 2021

North Korean defector in diving gear swims to South Korea, military says

A North Korean man in diving gear swam to South Korea on Tuesday in an apparent bid to defect from Kim Jong Un's Hermit Kingdom, the South Korean military said Wednesday.

February 16, 2021

North Korea attempted to hack Pfizer for coronavirus vaccine information: report

North Korean hackers tried breaking into the computer systems of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to access information on a coronavirus vaccine, South Korea's spy agency said Tuesday, according to a South Korean lawmaker and multiple reports. 

February 3, 2021

Georgia couple reunited with pet cat lost in South Korea for months

A U.S. Army medic and his wife were able to find the cat thanks to Facebook groups for the Camp Humphreys community.

January 15, 2021

Mandatory lockdowns may not be any better at controlling COVID-19 than less restrictive measures, study finds

Mandatory stay-at-home orders and business closures may not be more effective at controlling the spread of the coronavirus than less restrictive, voluntary measures, a new study found.

January 14, 2021

James Carafano: North Korea could spell trouble for Biden — here’s what he needs to do

North Korea has been relatively quiet until recently, but that looks like it is changing. Keeping the Hermit Kingdom from becoming President-elect Joe Biden’s first crisis could well require learning some lessons from what the outgoing administration of President Trump got right.