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1.The emergency committee of the Korean Medical Association on Friday called on the government to suspend the recruitment of medical school freshmen for the 2025 academic year.

2.According to the North Korea's state media said Friday, Kim Jong-un has said that his country went to every length in negotiations with the United States, but it only confirmed Washington's unwavering hostile policy toward Pyongyang.

3.The International Criminal Court on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and a senior Hamas official, accusing them of war crimes during and after the October 7 attacks on Israel last year.

1.A U.N. General Assembly committee on Wednesday passed a resolution on North Korean human rights for the 20th consecutive year, calling for the U.N. system as a whole to continue to address the North's "grave" situation "in a coordinated and unified manner."

2.The Korean Railway Workers' Union on Thursday said they will launch an indefinite general strike on December 5th to demand higher pay and a bigger workforce.

3.A number of Western embassies in Kyiv said they would close on Wednesday for security reasons, with the American delegation saying it had received a warning of a potentially significant Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital. The U.S. said it had reopened its embassy in Kyiv late on Wednesday.

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol wrapped up visits to Peru and Brazil on Tuesday, where he met with leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation gathering in Lima and joined the Group of 20 summit in Rio de Janeiro during the six-day trip.

2.The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday that South Korea's economy is forecast to grow 2 percent next year, citing downside risks including a slowdown in trade and heightened geopolitical tensions.

3.According to the French news agency AFP on Tuesday, Ukraine has reportedly fired the U.S.-supplied Army Tactical Missile System into Russia for the first time since U.S. President Joe Biden authorized their limited use.

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged Monday that South Korea will provide 10 million U.S. dollars worth of humanitarian aid to address the hunger crisis in Africa as a member of the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, which was launched at the start of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2.The Suwon District Prosecutors Office on Tuesday indicted opposition leader Lee Jae-myung on charges of embezzling 106.53 million won, or roughly 76-thousand-600 U.S. dollars, from the Gyeonggi provincial government by misusing corporate cards and an official car during his term as governor.

3.The presidential office said Monday that South Korea was given prior notice by the United States on its reported decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike inside Russia.

1.The leaders of South Korea, the United States, and Japan on Friday held a trilateral meeting in Lima on the sidelines of the APEC summit. In a joint statement, they announced the establishment of a secretariat for trilateral cooperation, and condemned North Korea and Russia’s decision to “dangerously expand” the war in Ukraine.

2.The Joint Chiefs of Staff on Monday condemned North Korea for “crossing the line” with its continued sending of trash-filled balloons to South Korea, and warned that all responsibility “lies within the North.”

3.U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday authorized Ukraine to use long-range missiles supplied by the U.S. for limited strikes inside Russia in response to North Korea’s deployment of troops to aid Moscow’s war effort.

1.The Seoul Central District Court on Friday sentenced opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung to a suspended one-year prison term for violating the Public Official Election Act during his previous presidential campaign.

2.According to a U.S. Treasury Department report on Thursday, the U.S. has put South Korea back on its list of countries to monitor for their foreign exchange policies, a year after the Asian country's exclusion from the list.

3.President Yoon Suk Yeol landed in Lima, Peru, on Thursday to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. On the sidelines of the multilateral forum, President Yoon is set to hold separate talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday departed for South America to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and Group of 20 summits. President Yoon is scheduled to first land in Lima, Peru, to participate in the APEC summit, then travel to Rio de Janeiro for the G-20 meeting.

2.Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok said Thursday the government will take active steps, if necessary, to address excessive volatility in the foreign exchange market. Since Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election last week, the local currency has been fluctuating around the psychologically significant level of 1,400 won against the U.S. dollar.

3.The annual college entrance exam kicked off nationwide Thursday. Choe Joung-chul, head of the CSAT question-setting committee, said during a press conference that extremely difficult "killer" questions were excluded from this year's exam.

1.The benchmark KOSPI on Wednesday plunged 2-point-64 percent to close at 2-thousand-417-point-08, with the market cap falling below 2,000 trillion won.

2.The United States confirmed Tuesday that North Korean troops, who have been deployed to Russia's western front-line Kursk region, have begun engaging in combat operations against Ukrainian forces.

3.South Korea's government said Tuesday all aircraft takeoffs and landings across the nation will be temporarily prohibited to keep noise down during this year's annual College Scholastic Ability Test held on Thursday. South Korean banks will also begin operations an hour later than usual.

1.North Korea's state media reported Tuesday that the treaty on "comprehensive strategic partnership" between North Korea and Russia was ratified the previous day as a decree by North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.

2.National Security Adviser Shin Won-sik said Tuesday South Korea is no longer a "one-sided beneficiary" of the bilateral alliance with the United States, vowing to work with the incoming U.S. administration for the denuclearization of North Korea.

3.The United Nations annual climate summit, COP29, began on Monday in Azerbaijan's capital Baku amid the re-election of Donald Trump as United States president, who has expressed his intention to walk out of the landmark Paris Agreement for the second time.

1.A consultative body involving the ruling People Power Party, the government and doctors' groups, was launched on Monday to seek to resolve a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors, with the aim of producing "meaningful" results by late December.

2.According to Russia's state-run TASS news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday has signed into law a treaty on the country's strategic partnership with North Korea, which includes a mutual defense provision.

3.According to the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase on Sunday, the price of Bitcoin surpassed the 80-thousand-dollar mark for the first time just days after Donald Trump’s reelection to the U.S. presidency.