Kim Tong-Hyung

Associated Press

In this May 17, 2020, photo, cheering mannequins are installed at the empty spectators' seats before the start of a soccer match between FC Seoul and Gwangju FC at the Seoul World Cup Stadium in Seoul, South Korea. A South Korean professional soccer club has apologized after being accused of putting sex dolls in empty stands during a match Sunday in Seoul. In a statement, FC Seoul expressed 'sincere remorse' over the controversy, but insisted that it used mannequins, not sex dolls, to mimic a home crowd during its 1-0 win over Gwangju FC at the Seoul World Cup stadium.

Soccer Team Apologizes for Dolls in Seats

They just wanted to add "an element of fun," but they should've chosen a different manufacturing partner.

Workers wearing protective suits spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus at a market in Bupyeong, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. South Korea reported another large jump in new virus cases Monday a day after the the president called for 'unprecedented, powerful' steps to combat the outbreak that is increasingly confounding attempts to stop the spread.

Virus Pushes Beyond Asia

Countries are scrambling to limit the spread.

Quarantine officials wearing protective gears place barricades as a precaution against African swine fever at a pig farm in Paju, South Korea.

NKorea Weak Link in Swine Fever's Spread

South Korea is deploying snipers and flying drones along its border to stop wild boars from spreading swine fever from rival North Korea.

Tough Times for Chipmakers

Chipmakers are suffering the consequences from misreading industry demand for their products.

Disinfectant solution is sprayed from a vehicle as a precaution against African swine fever near a pig farm in Paju, South Korea.

S. Korea Reports More Swine Fever

Officials are investigating more suspected cases at farms near its border with North Korea, as fears grow over the spread of the illness that has decimated pig herds across Asia.

A quarantine official wearing protective gear places a barricade as a precaution against African swine fever at a pig farm in Paju, South Korea.

S. Korea Confirms African Swine Fever

African swine fever has decimated pig herds in China and other Asian countries before reaching the Koreas.

North Korea Fighting Swine Fever

African swine fever has decimated pig herds in China and other Asian countries. It's harmless to people but is fatal to pigs and has no known cure.

In this June 3, 2019, photo, Health officials spray disinfectant solution as a precaution against African swine fever near a pig farm in Incheon, South Korea. South Korea is concerned North Korea is ignoring its calls for joint efforts to stem the spread of highly contagious African swine fever following an outbreak in North Korea.

NKorea Ignores SKorea's Swine Efforts

The lack of bilateral cooperation renders South Korea helpless in preventing the disease from reaching North Korean farms near the border.

Demonstrators holding wooden shields are confronted by police during a protest against the Federal Fiscal Control Board, as part of the May Day celebration in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. The U.S. Congress established the appointed Fiscal Control Board to oversee the debt restructuring in order to combat the Puerto Rican government-debt crisis.

Workers Demand Wages, Rights on May Day

The tradition of May Day marches for workers' rights began in the United States in the 1880s.

In this file photo, environmentalists stage a rally denouncing imported agricultural and marine products from Japan.

WTO Bans Fukushima Seafood

This overturned a ruling by a lower panel last year that said Seoul was unfairly discriminating against Japanese products.

This Nov. 22, 2016, aerial file photo shows Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. The World Trade Organization has upheld South Korea's import ban on Japanese seafood from areas affected by the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima. South Korea on Friday, April 12, 2019, welcomed the decision and said it will continue to block all fishery products from Fukushima and seven neighboring prefectures to ensure 'only foods that are confirmed as safe are put on the table.'

Ban on Fukushima Seafood

Japan said the WTO ruling was "extremely regrettable" and vowed to get the import ban reversed.

In this Oct. 30, 2018, file photo, South Korean Lee Chun-sik, 94-year-old victim of forced labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula before the end of World War II, sits on a wheelchair upon his arrival at the Supreme Court in Seoul, South Korea. Lawyers for South Koreans forced into wartime labor have taken legal steps to seize the South Korean assets of a Japanese company they are trying to pressure into following a court ruling to provide them compensation.

Lawyers Try to Seize Co's Assets

Nippon Steel has reportedly been refusing to discuss compensation despite a ruling that the company should pay four plaintiffs for forced labor.