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1.South Korea's health ministry said Thursday that it will have hospitals recruit additional trainee doctors later this month. The announcement came as only 104 candidates applied for trainee doctor programs starting in September, while local hospitals sought to find trainees for seven-thousand-645 new positions.

2.According to data compiled by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on Thursday, South Korea's exports extended on-year gains for the tenth straight month in July on the back of the robust performance of semiconductors. Outbound shipments rose 13.9 percent on-year to 57-point-4 billion U.S. dollars last month.

3.The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday held its benchmark lending rate steady in the 5.25 to 5.50 percent range for an eighth consecutive time, while its chair said a rate cut could be "on the table" as soon as September if conditions are met.

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday named Park Cheol-hee, an expert on Japan and the current head of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, as the top envoy to Tokyo,... and Kim Moon-soo, head of the presidential Economic, Social and Labor Council, as the new labor minister.

2.According to data compiled by Statistics Korea on Wednesday, South Korea's industrial output fell 0.1 percent on-month in June for the second consecutive month. However, retail sales advanced 1 percent on-month and facility investment climbed 4.3 percent from a month earlier in June.

3.Israel on Tuesday claimed it killed Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fuad Shukur, in an airstrike on Beirut, launched in retaliation for a rocket attack on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Iranian state media reported Wednesday that Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Tehran.

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday reaffirmed plans to protect and support retail investors by scrapping the financial investment income tax, which is set to be introduced next year, during a Cabinet meeting at the presidential office.

2.South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik said in an interview with Bloomberg published Monday, that South Korea is not ruling out the possibility of North Korea conducting a nuclear test before or after the U.S. presidential election in November to bolster its leverage.

3.Reuters reported Tuesday that the United States is leading a diplomatic dash to deter Israel from striking Lebanon's capital Beirut or major civil infrastructure, as Lebanon braced for retaliation after a rocket strike that killed 12 children and teenagers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

1.South Korea's Ministry of Finance said Monday the government has decided to extend at least 560 billion won, or roughly 445 million U.S. dollars, of funds to support small vendors suffering from payment delays by the e-commerce platforms TMON and WeMakePrice.

2.In a press conference after the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting held in Laos on Saturday, South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yeol urged Japan to show sincerity in implementing follow-up measures regarding the designation of the Sado gold mine, associated with Korea's wartime forced labor, as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

3.Seoul's defense ministry said the defense chiefs of South Korea, the United States and Japan signed a document on the Trilateral Security Cooperation Framework on Sunday, in a move solidifying their continued commitment to three-way security cooperation against North Korean threats.

1.Lee Sang-in, acting chief of South Korea's state broadcasting regulator, voluntarily stepped down Friday ahead of the National Assembly's planned vote on his impeachment motion. With Lee's resignation, the Korea Communications Commission is now left without any standing members.

2.Seoul's foreign ministry said Friday that Japan's former gold mine, associated with South Korea's wartime forced labor, is expected to be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site over the weekend.

3.The opening ceremony for the 33rd Summer Olympics in Paris is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday local time, or 2:30 a.m. Saturday in South Korea. It will be the first opening ceremony in history to take place outside a stadium. South Korea has sent 143 athletes in 21 out of 32 sports.

1.The National Assembly on Thursday rejected a bill mandating a special counsel investigation into the death of a Marine that was up for a revote after President Yoon Suk Yeol vetoed it for the second time. Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik earlier said he will also table four controversial broadcasting bills during the session.

2.According to preliminary data released from the Bank of Korea on Thursday, South Korea's real gross domestic product, a key measure of economic growth, contracted 0.2 percent on-quarter in the April-June period, as weaker domestic demand clouded recovery prospects, despite robust exports.

3.U.S. President Joe Biden made his first public address since dropping his re-election bid, saying he pulled out of the race against Republican candidate Donald Trump to unite his party and save the country’s democracy.

1.The confirmation hearing for the new chief of the state broadcasting watchdog Lee Jin-sook began on Wednesday and will be held for two days until Thursday. Lee is a former journalist of public broadcaster MBC and was nominated by President Yoon Suk Yeol earlier this month.

2.The Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday that North Korea again launched trash-filled balloons toward South Korea. The Presidential Security Service later announced that a trash-carrying balloon sent by North Korea had also landed on the presidential office compound.

3.The Korea Meteorological Administration issued a heat advisory on Wednesday for northern and central Seoul, the surrounding metropolitan area, and the northwestern part of Gangwon. Heat alerts have been issued for 173 out of 183 designated land areas nationwide.

1.Han Dong-hoon was elected as the new leader of the ruling People Power Party at the national convention held Tuesday. Han secured a majority in the first round of voting.

2.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday sent special envoys {성태윤}Sung Tae-yoon and Industry Minister {안덕근}Ahn Duk-geun to the Czech Republic to discuss follow-up measures on the country’s selection of a South Korean consortium as a preferred bidder for a nuclear power plant project.

3.North Korea’s state media reported Tuesday that North Korea does “not care” who wins the upcoming U.S. election, dismissing former President Donald Trump’s repeated boasts about his close relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

1.Hospitals in South Korea on Monday started hiring roughly 7-thousand-700 trainee doctors, despite some medical professors warning of boycotting their training programs in protest of the government's push for accepting the resignations of trainees on strike.

2.The Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday that South Korea conducted anti-Pyongyang broadcasts through its border loudspeakers in full-scale for the second day, in response to the North's repeated launches of trash-carrying balloons into the South.

3.U.S. President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race Sunday and officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him as the Democratic Party's candidate. The announcement came following Biden’s poor debate performance last month against former President Donald Trump.

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday attended the debate forum on people’s livelihood in Jeongeup, Jeollabuk-do Province and emphasized his plans to develop Jeonbuk via visions of 'high-tech,' 'life,' and ‘culture.’

2.According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, South Korea's military resumed propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts toward North Korea in response to its latest launch of trash balloons into the South.

3.Former US President Donald Trump on Thursday stated he will “get along with” Kim Jong-un when he returns to office as he formally accepted the Republican nomination for the US Presidential election.