1.The National Assembly will hold a four-day interpellation session starting Monday. During the session, lawmakers are expected to clash over inflation, the health care crisis, a special counsel investigation centering on first lady Kim Keon-hee, and the pension system reform.

2.The Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday that North Korea sent more trash-filled balloons towards South Korea on Sunday, in what marked the fifth straight day of such launches. Around 40 bundles were confirmed to have landed in the Seoul metropolitan area.

3.A former Philippines police officer, who kidnapped and murdered a Korean businessman in 2016, has fled after being sentenced to life imprisonment.