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FILED - 12 October 2021, ---: A scene from Season 1 of the Netflix series "The Squid Game." The series pushes the number of Netflix subscribers in South Korea to a record level last September. Photo: YOUNGKYU PARK/Netflix/dpa - ACHTUNG: Nur zur redaktionellen Verwendung im Zusammenhang mit einer Berichterstattung über das Streaming der Serie nur mit vollständiger Nennung des vorstehenden Credits.

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STREAMING

Netflix announces second season of hit 'Squid Game'

The Nomad Today/dpa 6/13/22

Netflix, which described the second season as "a whole new round," did not provide any other details, including a premiere date

Lifestyle

TV SERIES

All of Us Are Dead, Korean zombie nightmare coming to Netflix Spain

The Nomad Today 1/9/22

Check out the trailer announcing the premiere and featuring the intense battle between the students turned into zombies and the survivors

FILED - 25 February 1988, South Korea, Seoul: President Roh Tae-woo is sworn in as South Korea's new president at his inauguration ceremony in Seoul. Roh, who served as president from 1988-1993, died at the age of 88. Photo: -/YNA/dpa

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ASIA

Former South Korean president Roh Tae Woo dies

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/26/21

A former general, he succeeded former president Chun Doo Hwan after helping him seize power through a 1979 military coup

HANDOUT - North Koreans prepare anti-South Korea propaganda leaflets on Saturday, in a photo handout from the North Korean news agency KCNA. North Korea is preparing to send around 12 million propaganda leaflets to South Korea using 3,000 balloons, state media reported on Monday. Photo: -/kcna/dpa - ATTENTION: editorial use only and only if the credit mentioned above is referenced in full

World

North Korea plans to send South Korea 12 million propaganda leaflets

The Nomad Today 6/22/20

Last week, it blew up a joint liaison office in the border town of Kaesong.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the conference of the Central Military Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in this image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 23, 2020. KCNA via REUTERS

World

North Korea's Kim vows to further bolster nuclear war deterrence

The Nomad Today 5/24/20

The meeting of the ruling Workers' Party's powerful Central Military Commission marked Kim's first public appearance in three weeks.

High school students wearing face masks prepare for classes, with plastic covers placed on desks to prevent infection, as schools reopen following the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Daejeon, South Korea, May 20, 2020. Yonhap/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE.

Coronavirus

New infections mar South Korean students' return to school

The Nomad Today 5/20/20

Some students were sent home almost as soon as they had walked through their school gates for the first time this year.

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World

No signs North Korea's Kim received heart surgery

The Nomad Today 5/6/20

Korean leader only made 17 public appearances so far this year, compared with an average of 50 from previous years, which the NIS ascribed to a possible coronavirus outbreak in North Korea.

Korea

Netflix announces second season of hit 'Squid Game'

All of Us Are Dead, Korean zombie nightmare coming to Netflix Spain

Former South Korean president Roh Tae Woo dies

North Korea plans to send South Korea 12 million propaganda leaflets

North Korea's Kim vows to further bolster nuclear war deterrence

New infections mar South Korean students' return to school

No signs North Korea's Kim received heart surgery

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