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 The case involved a type of the disease that animals are inoculated
against in South Korea, with all 670 hogs at the infected farm in
the city of Gimje, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) southwest of
Seoul to be slaughtered, said an agriculture ministry official.
Another official at the ministry confirmed the new discovery of
foot-and-mouth, without giving details.
South Korea struggled to contain foot and mouth after it was
discovered in the country in July 2014, intensifying fears about
food safety as the nation was also grappling with an outbreak of
bird flu. But no new cases had been discovered since April last
year.
The outbreak stoked pork imports, mainly from the United States and
Germany, with shipments rising nearly 30 percent to around 423,000
tonnes between January and November 2015 from a year earlier,
according to customs data.
(Reporting by Rebecca Jang; Editing by Joseph Radford)
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