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- South Korean club FC Seoul to be punished for placing SEX DOLLS in the stands
South Korean football club FC Seoul will face disciplinary sanctions for filling empty seats at the stadium with sex dolls last week. The club could be fined $4,000 and stripped of points for violating K-League regulations. - Pollution police: South Korea to slap Mercedes-Benz with $63 million fine, press criminal charges for fraudulent emissions dataSeoul will issue a hefty fine to Mercedes-Benz for manipulating emissions data of its diesel cars, local media reported. The South Korean government has already taken similar action against Nissan and Porsche.
- S. Koreans return to work and shops as govt eases social distancing rulesSouth Koreans are returning to work as well as shopping malls, parks, golf courses and some restaurants, as Seoul relaxes social distancing rules amid a continued downward trend in coronavirus cases. A growing list of companies have ended or eased...
- S. Korea holds parliamentary election amid pandemicSouth Koreans began voting on Wednesday to elect members of parliament, wearing masks and plastic gloves as part of strict safety measures in one of the first national elections to be held amid the coronavirus pandemic. About 14,000 polling stations...
- North Korea fires suspected short-range cruise missiles into the East Sea - S. Korean militaryMultiple short-range anti-ship projectiles, launched by the North Korean military on Tuesday, have landed in the sea between Japan and the Korean Peninsula, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff reported.
- S. Korea to allow absentee voting by coronavirus patients in parliament elections this monthCoronavirus patients in South Korea will be allowed to vote by mail or as absentees in parliamentary elections this month, it has been announced, as a two-week campaign began on Thursday in a country grappling with a steady rise in new infections....
- Thousands of S. Korean workers go on unpaid leave as Seoul, Washington fail to agree on military costsSeoul on Tuesday criticized the US military’s decision to place thousands of South Korean workers on unpaid leave this week, after the two allies failed to sign a new cost-sharing agreement. Washington and Seoul are embroiled in a dispute...
- S. Korea puts back school re-openings, China to postpone university entrance examsSouth Korea on Tuesday canceled the planned re-opening of schools next week because of dangers from the coronavirus, and will instead launch online classes from April 9, while also delaying its annual college entrance exams. Seoul has managed to...
- Why East beats West in the war against coronavirusAsian democracies like South Korea, Japan and India are doing a better job than Europe and the US in combating the coronavirus pandemic. Deep social divisions and poor leadership in the West are just two of the reasons.
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