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101 signals for South Korea · Crisis

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MilitaryCrisis🇰🇷South Korea 🇮🇷

Iran

34d ago

South Korea announced on Wednesday that it will summon Iran's ambassador after an investigation into an attack on a South Korean ship in early May in the Strait of Hormuz showed that the vessel was most likely hit by a missile developed by Tehran, reports AFP, according to Agerpres.

4.5/10·Digi24 (Romania)·Tehran, Tehran

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MilitaryCrisis🇰🇷South Korea 🇮🇷Iran34d ago

By Heejin Kim and Joyce Lee SEOUL, May 27 (Reuters) – An Iranian anti-ship missile was likely involved in an attack on a cargo ship operated by local shipper HMM 011200.KS in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Saeed Koozechi, the Iranian ambassador to South Korea, denied Iran‘s role in the South Korean vessel […] The post Iranian Missile Likely Involved in Attack on Ship in Strait of Hormuz, South Korea Says appeared first on KAYHAN LIFE .

4.5/10·Kayhan London

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MilitaryCrisis🇰🇷South Korea 🇮🇷Iran34d ago

SEOUL, May 27 - An Iranian anti-ship missile was likely involved in an attack on a cargo ship operated by local shipper HMM in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

4.5/10·The Straits Times·Seoul, Seoul

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MilitaryCrisis🇰🇷South Korea 🇮🇷Iran34d ago

South Korea's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that an attack on a cargo ship operated by local shipper HMM 011200.KS in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month likely involved an Iranian anti-ship missile.

4.5/10·gCaptain

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EconomicCrisis🇰🇷South Korea40d ago

Samsung's union has announced plans to proceed with strike action after mediation efforts between labor representatives and management reached an impasse. The labor action threatens production at the South Korean conglomerate.

4.2/10·Nikkei Asia (NAR feed)·Seoul, Seoul

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MilitaryCrisis🇭🇰Hong Kong 🇰🇷South Korea6d ago

In late May, a South Korean attack submarine slipped into a harbor in Victoria, British Columbia — a floating sales pitch for one of the largest military contracts in Canadian history.

4.1/10·Bloomberg Global Economics·Victoria, Central and Western

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PoliticalCrisis🇰🇷South Korea 🇲🇱Mali42d ago

‘Tank Day’ event causes outrage with ‘malicious mockery’ of deadly crackdown during dictatorship era The chief executive of Starbucks in South Korea has been dismissed after the company ran a promotional event using slogans that evoked a massacre of pro-democracy protesters during the country’s dictatorship era, sparking outrage and boycott calls. The coffee chain launched a “Tank Day” campaign on 18 May for its “Tank” tumbler series. The date coincides with one of the most politically sensitive days in South Korea’s calendar, when citizens commemorate the 1980 democratisation movement in Gwangju, 167 miles (270km) south-west of Seoul.

4.1/10·The Guardian World·Gwangju, Gwangju

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Supply ChainCrisis🇰🇷South Korea50d ago

South Korea has said it will respond after a cargo ship linked to a Korean shipping company was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz earlier ...

4.1/10·IranWire

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Supply ChainCrisis🇰🇷South Korea 🇮🇷Iran 🇮🇱Israel52d ago

South Korea is drawing growing interest from Middle Eastern oil producers seeking to store crude oil at the country’s petroleum reserve bases, the world’s sixth largest, amid a prolonged blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a South Korean official and an expert on the matter have said. The strait’s closure in the wake of the US-Israel war on Iran has taken a toll not only on South Korea and other nations dependent on oil imports but also oil-producing countries whose storage tanks are filling up...

4.1/10·South China Morning Post

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DisasterCrisis🇰🇷South Korea9d ago

Green flood alert in South Korea. On 19/06/2026, a flood started in South Korea, lasting until 21/06/2026 (last update). The flood caused 0 deaths and 0 displaced .

4.0/10·GDACS

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PoliticalCrisis🇰🇷South Korea 🇮🇱Israel40d ago

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung accused Israel of detaining South Korean citizens in international waters, describing the action as exceeding legal boundaries and questioning whether such conduct could proceed without formal protest.

4.0/10·Al-Monitor·Seoul, Seoul

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MilitaryCrisis🇰🇿Kazakhstan 🇺🇿Uzbekistan 🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan+939d ago

The accelerating movement toward multi-domain non-contact warfare capabilities without any strategic restraint erodes crisis stability in South Asia.

3.9/10·The Diplomat

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HealthCrisis🇰🇷South Korea52d ago

(Bucheon = Yonhap News) Hong Hyun-ki = Both a Taekwondo staff member and an accomplice director who tried to kill their husband with alcohol on drugs have been detained by the police.

3.9/10·Yonhap News (ko)

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DisasterCrisis🇯🇵Japan 🇰🇷South Korea5d ago

TOKYO >> In an effort to reduce damage caused by inland earthquakes along faults, a team of researchers at the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience in Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture, will collaborate with U.S. and South Korea research institutes to develop technology that can predict tremors that intensify around faults.

3.7/10·Honolulu Star-Advertiser·Tsukuba, Ibaraki

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PoliticalCrisis🇰🇷South Korea8d ago

A court has sentenced a former South Korean justice minister to 25 years in prison for his role in ex-president Yoon Suk-yeol’s brief and disastrous declaration of martial law in 2024. Park Sung-jae was found guilty of involvement in “insurrection”, the Yonhap news agency reported from the Seoul Central District Court on Monday. Yoon’s December 2024 martial law declaration lasted only about six hours as lawmakers raced to the assembly building and voted it down in an emergency session.

3.7/10·South China Morning Post

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Supply ChainCrisis🇨🇳China 🇰🇷South Korea 🇺🇸United States+124d ago

North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un’s recent display of nuclear-processing capabilities appears timed with reports of an impending visit by China’s leader and fuelled by insecurities about Seoul’s nuclear submarine talks with Washington. Analysts also say that mounting trilateral talks involving the United States, Japan and South Korea have galvanised Kim into doubling down on Pyongyang’s status as a nuclear-armed state. The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced on Friday that Xi...

3.7/10·South China Morning Post·Seoul, Seoul

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CriminalCrisis🇰🇷South Korea 🇬🇭Ghana 🇰🇪Kenya4d ago

In tonight's edition, hundreds of people are arrested and crowds are teargassed as Kenyans march on the anniversary of the 2024 violence. Also, Bafana Bafana shuts down its detractors with its big win over South Korea that takes the team to the knockout round of the World Cup for the first time. And Highlife, the music that was born in Ghana's port cities, is entering its second century.

3.5/10·France 24 English

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MilitaryCrisis🇲🇽Mexico 🇿🇦South Africa 🇰🇷South Korea5d ago

MONTERREY, Mexico (AFP) — South Africa beat South Korea 1-0 on Wednesday to reach the World Cup knockout rounds for the first time in their history — an astonishing turnaround after a dismal opening defeat. The Bafana Bafana, playing in a World Cup for the first time since they hosted it in 2010, were widely written off after their 2-0 loss to Group A winners Mexico in the tournament's curtain raiser. But they battled to a draw against the Czech Republic and came out on top of what was effectively a shootout with South Korea for second place in Monterrey, thanks to Thapelo Maseko's second-half strike.

3.5/10·Jamaica Observer·Monterrey, Nuevo Leon

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PoliticalCrisis🇰🇷South Korea13d ago

On the morning of January 5, 1998, a television appeal went out across South Korea. The Korean Broadcasting System, then the country’s most trusted institution after the family altar, asked its viewers to bring their gold to designated collection points. The country was bleeding.

3.5/10·Nairametrics

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MilitaryCrisis🇰🇷South Korea 🇰🇵North Korea18d ago

South Korea on Friday sentenced ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in prison for sending military drones into North Korea in 2024 in a bid to "heighten inter-Korean military tensions and manufacture a national crisis" enabling him to declare martial law. Yeol was in February given a life imprisonment sentence – which he is appealing – for leading an insurrection with his martial law declaration.

3.5/10·France 24 World

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CriminalCrisis🇰🇷South Korea 🇷🇺Russia18d ago

Eight Chinese nationals, one Russian and one South Korean obtained one-year student visas based on forged documents submitted in the name of Balmiki Campus; one suspect and a Chinese visa applicant arrested.

3.5/10·The Kathmandu Post (Nepal)

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CyberCrisis🇰🇷South Korea19d ago

The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), South Korea's data protection regulator, has fined e-commerce giant Coupang a record 624.6 billion won (roughly $409 million) following a massive data breach affecting more than 37 million customers [...]

3.5/10·Bleeping Computer

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CyberCrisis🇰🇷South Korea19d ago

South Korea has hit online retail giant Coupang with a record fine of more than $400m (£299m) over a massive data breach that exposed the data of more than 30 million customers last year.

3.5/10·Joy FM Online (Ghana)

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HealthCrisis🇰🇷South Korea19d ago

Uzbek authorities arrested multiple fraudsters who collected up to $196,000 from job-seekers with false promises of South Korea work and study visas.

3.5/10·UzDaily

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MilitaryCrisis🇰🇷South Korea20d ago

South Korea escalated its defense of the won, moving from an emergency weekend meeting and warnings against speculative trading to the first joint inspections of major foreign-exchange banks in 14 years.

3.5/10·Bloomberg Global Economics

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