1. South Korea’s Education Minister Lee Ju-ho on Monday announced that the government will cut the vicious cycle of killer questions in exams which leads to the country’s excessive spending on private education.

2. The forces from the Wagner Group, a private army led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, advanced within 200 km to the capital Moscow but turned back on Saturday, de-escalating a major threat to President Vladimir Putin's power.

3. Marking the 73rd anniversary of the Korean War on Sunday. President Yoon Suk Yeol said at the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History that neither the devastation caused by the war nor the veterans from South Korea and the U.S should be forgotten.