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U.S. State Department Lowers Travel Advisory for Daegu After Improvement in COVID-19 Conditions

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. State Department on Thursday lowered its travel advisory for Daegu, placing all of South Korea under the second-highest tier of “reconsider travel” due to COVID-19. Daegu was placed under the highest tier, “do not travel,” in late February following a large outbreak of the disease in the [...]

U.S. State Department Revises Korea Map to Include Dokdo

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. State Department revised a map of Korea on its website Monday to include a reference to South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo. The islets, which Japan has long claimed, had not been marked in the Korea map in the website’s U.S. Passports and International Travel section, while [...]