25-02-2020 11:44
A Samsung mobile factory in South Korea has halted operations due to a coronavirus infection, while its Vietnamese facility is said to work at full capacity.
25-02-2020 09:17
South Korea on Tuesday (Feb 25) reported its eighth death from the novel coronavirus and 60 more cases - its smallest increase in four days.
24-02-2020 09:36
By now, the Ministry of Transport has not decided to suspend the air routes between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) in face of the complicated development of the acute respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Northeast Asian country, a high-ranking official said on February 23.
24-02-2020 09:31
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has adopted a number of measures to protect Vietnamese citizens living in the Republic of Korea (RoK), which reported a huge rise in the number of confirmed new coronavirus (COVID-19) infection cases over the last few days.
24-02-2020 09:18
South Korea raised its alert on COVID-19 to the highest level on Sunday (Feb 23) after reporting three more deaths and 169 new infections.
22-02-2020 10:00
South Korea on Saturday (Feb 22) reported 142 more cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the nationwide total to 346.
22-02-2020 09:54
Nguyen Ngoc Cam, aged 44, becomes the first Vietnamese-Korean chosen by the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DP) to run for the 21st parliamentary elections scheduled for this April.
22-02-2020 09:46
The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has imposed no ban on flights to the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Japan during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, CAAV Director General Dinh Viet Thang has said.
22-02-2020 09:10
North Korea has cancelled the Pyongyang Marathon - its biggest tourist money-spinner of the year - because of the novel coronavirus outbreak, a leading tour company said Friday (Feb 21).
22-02-2020 08:47
North Korea's self-imposed isolation in the face of the coronavirus epidemic raging in neighbouring China is its only method of protection from an outbreak that would wreak havoc given its crumbling health system, analysts say.
22-02-2020 08:37
Vietnam and South Korea will promote export-import activities, in addition to calling for South Korean investment capital and technology transfer in order to realise the $100 billion bilateral trade turnover target in 2020.
21-02-2020 10:42
China on Thursday (Feb 20) touted a big drop in new virus infections as proof its epidemic control efforts are working, but the toll grew abroad with deaths in Japan and South Korea.
21-02-2020 10:37
South Korea reported its first death Thursday (Feb 20) from COVID-19 as the number of infections nearly doubled to over 100 - almost half of them from a cluster centred on a religious sect.
20-02-2020 15:38
A cluster of COVID-19 infections centred on a church in the South Korean city of Daegu leapt to 39 cases on Thursday (Feb 20), as the country's total spiked for the second successive day.
18-02-2020 10:30
South Korean manufacturer LG has just made the decision of stopping the production of television panels and smartphones on its home soil and will move capacity abroad to stem losses.