The second preparatory hearing for President Yoon Suk-yeol's coup leader charges took place on the 21st. The court decided to begin the formal trial starting from the 14th of next month. The prosecution selected Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Choi Sang-mok and Minister of ...
The number of cafes, one of the startup items for retirees, decreased by more than 1,500 last year, as reported on the 22nd. This marks the first instance in 60 years since independent statistics on cafes began to be compiled in 1964 where a 'year-on-year decrease' has occurred. This phenomenon aros...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has decided to follow a court ruling to lift the sanctions imposed on the corporations utilized by North Korean hackers for money laundering. The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced on the 21st (local time) that it had decided to lift economic sanctions on T...
About half of the registered students at Yonsei University College of Medicine, which closes its re-enrollment application on the 21st, have applied for their return. The registered student body at Yonsei University College of Medicine is estimated to be around 120 per class, with approximately 600 ...
On the 21st (local time), the New York stock market started lower, continuing a five-week decline. The causes are largely analyzed into three factors: the expectation of a 'Fed Put' (Federal Reserve intervention in the market) that emerged right after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetin...
At around 3:26 p.m. on the 21st, a fire broke out in a mountain area in Sicheon-myeon, Sancheong-gun, South Gyeongsang Province, and authorities are currently working to extinguish it. Currently, as the forest fire spreads, authorities have issued a Level 3 forest fire alert around 6:40 p.m. A Level...
Kim Seong-hoon, Vice Administrator of the Presidential Security Service, and Lee Kwang-woo, Deputy Minister, who are charged with obstructing the arrest of President Yoon Suk-yeol, avoided detention. On the 21st, Judge Heo Joon-seok of the Seoul Western District Court conducted a pre-arrest interrog...
London Heathrow Airport, referred to as a 'critical gateway to European skies,' will be closed all day on the 21st (local time) due to a power outage caused by a fire. According to the Associated Press and Reuters, Heathrow Airport announced in a statement that "a fire broke out at the substati...
On the 21st (local time), Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu met with North Korean Chairperson Kim Jong Un and conveyed a message from Russian President Vladimir Putin. On that day, TASS and RIA Novosti reported that Secretary Shoigu said to Chairperson Kim, “I would like to con...
The prosecution submitted a request for a trial schedule to the court handling the North Korean remittance case involving Lee Jae-myung, the representative of the Democratic Party. The trial has been suspended for three months after Lee's side filed a request for the judges to be changed. According ...
