Angelina Jolie reveals son Maddox, will be studying online for his second year at Yonsei University

Angelina Jolie reveals son Maddox, 19, will be studying online due to the pandemic as he begins his second year at Seoul’s Yonsei University By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 23:00 BST, 17 August 2020 | Updated: 23:00 BST, 17 August 2020 Angelina Jolie has revealed her son Maddox’s study plans amid the coronavirus pandemic.  Her eldest … Read more

Katie Holmes dons Beatles T-shirt on solo NYC stroll… after announcing she’s voting for Joe Biden

Dawson’s Creek alum Katie Holmes scraped her hair into a top bun and dressed down in wide-leg blue jeans and Birkenstock sandals to go grocery shopping in Manhattan on Sunday. The Ohio-born 41-year-old wore a T-shirt featuring the obscure cover of The Beatles’ 1988 unofficial release in South Korea, Back-Track. Katie made sure to protect … Read more

North Koreans ordered to hand over pet dogs to be killed for meat as country hit by food shortages 

North Koreans are ordered to hand over ‘decadent and bourgeois’ pet dogs so they can be killed and ‘provided to restaurants for meat’ as the country is rocked by food shortages Dictator Kim Jong-un announced in July that owning a pet is now against the law Authorities are identifying homes with dogs in Pyongyang and … Read more

Coronavirus: Asymptomatic patients shed just as much of virus

COVID-19 patients with and without symptoms are equally contagious: Asymptomatic people have just as much virus in their noses, mouths and lungs as those who cough and run fevers, study finds Researchers looked at 303 patients isolated at a treatment center in Cheonan, South Korea The viral loads of asymptomatic coronavirus patients were very similar to … Read more

Asymptomatic COVID-19 patients shed as much of the virus as those with symptoms

COVID-19 patients with and without symptoms are equally contagious: Asymptomatic people have just as much virus in their noses, mouths and lungs as those who cough and run fevers, study finds Researchers looked at 303 patients isolated at a treatment center in Cheonan, South Korea The viral loads of asymptomatic coronavirus patients were very similar to … Read more

North Korea quarantines thousands in a southern city locked down over coronavirus worries

North Korea is quarantining thousands of people and shipping food and other aid to a southern city locked down over coronavirus worries, officials said, as the country’s response to a suspected case reinforces doubt about its longstanding claim to be virus-free. But amid the outside skepticism and a stream of North Korean propaganda glorifying its … Read more

Trump becomes embroiled in jaw-dropping argument over coronavirus testing during new interview

Donald Trump has declared that the US was ‘lower than the world’ regarding coronavirus data, before suggesting South Korea’s figures were so low because they are faking their statistics. In a sit down interview with AXIOS’s Jonathan Swan on Monday, the president handed the reporter a series of charts and graphs to illustrate that America … Read more

BTS gearing up to release new ‘upbeat’ single next month to help comfort fans amid COVID-19 pandemic

BTS gearing up to release new ‘upbeat’ single next month to help comfort fans amid coronavirus pandemic Band revealed the news in a V Live audio livestream  ‘Breakthrough’ song is set to stream worldwide August 21  Band said they’re excited about putting out a new album later this year BTS consists of members RM, V, … Read more

North Korea declares state of emergency after Kim meets advisers to discuss ‘first coronavirus case’

North Korea has declared a state of emergency after a person suspected of having coronavirus entered the country.  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened an emergency politburo meeting after the person suspected of having COVID-19 entered from South Korea by illegally crossing the border this month, state media said on Sunday. If confirmed, it … Read more

South Korea’s self-isolation app had security flaws that exposed names and locations of users

South Korea’s self-isolation app that monitors people in quarantine contained a serious security flaw that would allow hackers to access names and locations of users South Korea’s quarantine app contained multiple serious security flaws  It left personal data like name, real-time location, and phone number vulnerable The flaw has reportedly been fixed and there are … Read more

School reopenings WILL trigger coronavirus outbreaks, study suggests

School reopenings WILL trigger coronavirus outbreaks, study suggests: Korean CDC finds middle and high school-age children can spread the virus just as easily as adults The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at household and nonhousehold contacts of more than 5,700 coronavirus patients Children under age 10 were about half as likely as … Read more

Pension accessing in your fifties can boost your health in the short-term, study finds

Taking a slice of pension in your fifties can boost your health in the short-term, study finds UK, US, Singapore and South Korea have all relaxed rule that you have to wait until retirement age to access pension cash Research of over 7,000 people found 41% of 55-year-olds studied withdrew the equivalent of £13,567 on … Read more