1. The South Korean government announced Wednesday that it will end the mask mandate for public transportation next week, while the mandate will remain in place for medical facilities, pharmacies and other vulnerable facilities.

2. Just a day ahead of South Korea-Japan's Presidential summit, South Korea's leading steelmaker POSCO Holdings has donated four billion won, or around three million U.S. dollars, to a fund providing compensation to victims of Japan's wartime forced labor.

3. According to the U.S. Pentagon Tuesday, a Russian jet struck a U.S. spy drone over the Black Sea and knocked it out of the sky, in one of the first direct military confrontations between the two nations’ forces since the war in Ukraine began more than a year ago.