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1. Seoul's Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup and his US and Japanese counterparts, Lloyd Austin and Yasukazu Hamada, held a three-way talks on Saturday in Singapore during which the three defense chiefs agreed to establish a real-time data warning sharing system on North Korean missiles.

2. The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs is boosted in its status from sub-ministry to full-fledged ministry level as of Monday. Meanwhile, the Overseas Koreans Agency was launched in Incheon City on the same day.

3. South Korean baritone Kim Tae-han won the Queen Elisabeth Competition for voice in Belgium on Saturday, becoming the first Asian male singer to win the competition. The Queen Elisabeth Competition is one of the world’s three most prestigious classical music contests.

1. Data from Statistics Korea released on Friday shows that the Consumer Price Index  rose 3.3% on-year. However, electricity, gas, and water prices surged more than 23%, marking the second consecutive month that the utility fee increases have been in the 20 percent range.

2. According to South Korea’s foreign ministry, South Korea on Friday imposed unilateral sanctions on a North Korean hacking group known as Kimsuky as a response to the North's botched space rocket launch to put its military spy satellite into space.

3. The US Senate on Thursday passed a bill to lift the debt ceiling for two years, averting a US default with just days before the June 5th deadline.

1. South Korea downgraded the COVID-19 crisis status from "serious," the highest level, to "alert"on Thursday. The COVID-19 isolation period of seven days is now shortened to five days and is no longer compulsory.

2. According to South Korea’s industry ministry on Thursday, the country’s exports dropped for the 8th consecutive month by 15.2% in May, driven by low demand for semiconductors. The country’s exports of semiconductors plunged 36.2% in May.

3. South Korea on Tuesday. succeeded in the fourth test of the Long-range Surface-to-Air-Missile, also known as L-SAM, which is a key homegrown missile interceptor under development. The country’s defense ministry said that it plans to embark on the mass-production phase in 2025.

1. North Korea launched a space rocket on Wednesday, a day after announcing its schedule for sending a military reconnaissance satellite into orbit. According to the country’s state media KCNA this morning, the launch came short, falling into the West Sea after losing its momentum due to an “abnormal flight”.

2. The head of the South Korean inspection team that returned home after examining the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Yoo Guk-hee, said at a briefing on Wednesday that "meaningful progress" was made in terms of a scientific and technological review of the plant's facilities, but "further analysis" will be needed.

3. Data released by Statistics Korea shows that last month's industrial production was down 1.4% compared to the month before. It had risen in the two previous months and the fall in April was the biggest on-month drop in 14 months.

1. High-ranking North Korean military official Ri Pyong-chol announced in a statement released by the country's state media KCNA on Tuesday that the country is planning to launch a military spy satellite as soon as June.

2. The National Assembly on Tuesday voted down the nursing act which was put for a re-vote after it was vetoed by President Yoon Suk Yeol earlier this month.

3. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday said that decisions have been made on the timing of when Ukrainian troops will push forward which implies that the country is now ready to launch its long-awaited counteroffensive.

1. According to Japan’s Kyodo News on Monday, North Korea notified both the Japanese government and the International Maritime Organization of its plan to launch a military reconnaissance satellite between May 31 and June 11.

2. According to the Bank of Korea on Monday, South Korea’s economic growth recorded under the OECD average for three straight quarters, signaling towards Bank of Korea’s governor Rhee Chang-yong’s warning that South Korea has already entered the stage of low growth in the long term, now being a reality.

3. Turkiye's Election Board on Sunday confirmed that Recep Tayyip Erdogan has secured yet another term in office by winning the country’'s 2023 presidential election with 52.14% of the votes in a runoff vote on Sunday, extending his rule into a 3rd decade.

1. According to the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, South Korea on Thursday succeeded in launching its homegrown space rocket, Nuri, placing 8 satellites, including the next generation small satellite, the NEXTSAT-2 satellite, into Earth’s orbit.

2. South Korea’s main opposition, Democratic Party, launched a signature campaign on Friday to oppose Japan’s planned release of radioactive water from its Fukushima nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, South Korea’s 21-member inspection team returned home in the afternoon to report their inspection results.

3. South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution announced Friday to invest 5.7 trillion won (or 4.3 billion USD) in a battery cell plant in the United States as a response to the Inflation Reduction Act signed into law by the U.S. President Joe Biden.

1. According to the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, South Korea will launch its homegrown space rocket Nuri on Thursday at 6:24 p.m. at the Naro Space Center in the southern coastal village of Goheung.

2. South Korea’s 21-member inspection team on Thursday held a meeting with Japanese officials after concluding its 2-day inspection of the cripple Fukushima nuclear power plant on Wednesday. The South Korean inspection team is scheduled to return to Korea on Friday.

3. A Montenegro high court has annulled a decision by a lower court to release Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon on bail, accepting the Montenegrin prosecutors’ claim that the bail is far short of their actual wealth.

1. According to the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, the launch of South Korea's homegrown rocket, Nuri, would be delayed until later this week. The Nuri rocket was originally scheduled to embark on a journey into orbit about 550 km above the earth at 6:24 PM on Wednesday with a total of 8 satellites.

2. According to a U.S. public filing on Tuesday, South Korea submitted a request to the United States Department of Commerce to double its proposed limit on the expansion of production by South Korean chips manufacturers in China, and redefine several of its terms in the CHIPS and Science Act.

3. The South Korean government and the ruling People Power Party agreed on Wednesday to review the possibility of disallowing downtown rallies by organizations with a history of unlawful acts and restricting downtown rallies and demonstrations during commuting hours.

1. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol presided over a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday to share his accomplishments achieved before and after attending the Group of Seven Summit in Hiroshima, and vowed to further roll out Korea’s vision of becoming a global pivotal state.

2. South Korea’s first domestically developed Nuri space rocket has been transported to a launch pad at the Naro Space Center in the southwestern county of Goheung on Tuesday, ahead of Wednesday’s launch.

3. South Korea on Monday defeated France 2-1 in its first group match of this year’s FIFA U-20 World Cup in Mendoza, Argentina. Team Korea’s Captain Lee Seung-won scored the opener and Lee Young-jun added another.