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1. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon-hee embarked on a state visit to the United States on Monday. The summit between South Korea and the U.S. is slated for Wednesday this week.

2. Former chair of the main opposition Democratic Party, Song Young-gil said on Sunday in Paris that he will try to solve the issue quietly. Song left Paris to return home to undergo a prosecution probe on the alleged distribution of illicit money to lawmakers before an election for a new Democratic Party leader in 2021.

3. Countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom evacuated their diplomats and citizens from Sudan on Sunday while South Korea began the evacuation of 28 Korean nationals from the conflict-hit nation.

1. Ahead of the S.Korea-U.S. summit slated for next week, tensions between South Korea and China, and South Korea and Russia are escalating. This follows South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s remarks regarding Taiwan and provision of lethal aid to Ukraine.

2. South Korea will decide on the new electricity and gas prices for the second quarter next month. This announcement came on Friday after the South Korean government once again failed to reach an agreement with the National Assembly on the new rates of utility bills.

3. According to the defense ministry on Friday, South Korea has decided to dispatch military transport aircraft to evacuate its nationals in Sudan. The ongoing conflict in Sudan killed more than 330 people and injured 3200 others.

1. The presidential office said Thursday that South Korea’s decision on the provision of lethal aid to Ukraine will depend on Russia.

2. President Yoon Suk Yeol will pay a state visit to the United States for 7 days from April 24 to hold a summit with U.S. President Joe Biden on the 26th and to deliver an address before a joint session of Congress on the 27th.

3. The prosecution has sought an arrest warrant for Kang Rae-gu, a key suspect in the “cash envelope” bribery scandal for allegedly distributing a total of 94 million won, or roughly $72,000, to lawmakers of the main opposition Democratic Party to make then-lawmaker Song Yong-gil be elected as the party chair during its national convention in May 2021.

1. According to North Korea’s state-led Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the launch of a military spy satellite after he paid a visit to the National Space Development Agency.

2. Speaking to Reuters in an exclusive interview, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol for the first time expressed a willingness to provide weapons to Ukraine, marking a change in Seoul's position on providing lethal aid to Kyiv ahead of the S.Korea-U.S. summit.

3. The EU agreed on Tuesday to a 47 billion U.S. dollar plan for its semiconductor industry, in a move to catch up to both the U.S. and Asia, while reducing its dependency on regions outside the bloc for its semiconductor needs.

1. The U.S. government announced on Monday that 16 electric vehicles would be eligible for subsidies of up to 7500 U.S. dollars in accordance with the Inflation Reduction Act. Hyundai and Kia by Hyundai Motor Group that were originally eligible for subsidies have been excluded from the list.

2. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol addressed different agendas such as housing fraud, illicit drugs, working hours, and hereditary employment during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

3. According to the United Nations special representative for Sudan, as of Tuesday, at least 200 people have been killed in a fighting between rival armed factions in Sudan.

1. South Korea and Japan held a so-called, two-plus-two meeting, a joint meeting of senior diplomats and defense director generals on Monday to discuss security cooperation in the region against the backdrop of North Korea’s escalating threats.

2. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday visited a port in Wakayama to support the ruling party's candidate in a local election during which what appeared to be a smoke bomb was thrown at him.

3. South Korean prosecutors on Monday started investigating suspicions that more than 20 envelopes containing cash worth 94 million won, or roughly $72,000, were distributed to the members of the then ruling Democratic Party of Korea to make then-lawmaker Song Yong-gil be elected as the party chair during its national convention in May 2021.

1. According to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday, an arrest has been made in connection to the leaked Pentagon documents scandal that shook the world last weekend. The suspect is a 21-year-old U.S. air national guardsman from Massachusetts.

2. South Korea's Unification Ministry on Friday released the latest version of its White Paper on Korean unification. Noteworthy is the use of the term "North Korea's denuclearization" instead of "Korean peninsula's denuclearization" in the document.

3. According to the Finance Ministry’s latest economic assessment report, the Green Book, released on Friday, the country continues to face an economic slowdown despite a rise in domestic demand due to weak exports and facility investment.

1. South Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator, Kim Gunn, and his U.S. and Japanese counterparts, Sung Kim and Takehiro Funakoshi on Thursday held phone consultations on North Korea’s provocations, following the firing of North Korea’s intermediate-range ballistic missile towards the East Sea earlier in the day.

2. The South Korean government announced on Wednesday that students with a history of bullying will have their disciplinary records reflected in the regular college admissions process starting from the year 2026.

3. South Korea reported an additional case of the mpox which is formerly known as monkeypox virus on Thursday, bringing the county's total to nine.

1. South Korea's presidential office has dismissed concerns that the United States has been wiretapping the country's National Security Office during an interview on Tuesday, following media reports over alleged Pentagon documents leaked online.

2. The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its 2023 economic growth outlook for South Korea to 1.5%, down 0.2 percentage points from its estimate in January, as it expects the global economy to face 'rocky' economic recovery this year.

3. According to the Korea Meteorological Administration, heavy yellow dust spread across the nation on Wednesday and will blanket the nation until Thursday. Meanwhile, a fine dust advisory was also issued nationwide.

1. Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup and the U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin held phone talks on Tuesday during which Austin explained to Lee about media reports on leaked U.S. military documents and affirmed that the U.S. will cooperate with the South Korean government in handling the issue.

2. South Korea’s foreign ministry on Tuesday called in the deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, Naoki Kumagai, to deliver a formal protest to Japan’s latest edition of the Blue Book of Foreign Affairs in which Japan renewed its territorial claim to Dokdo.

3. A level 3 wildfire, fanned by strong winds, spread along the east coast in Gangneung, Gangwon-do Province, on Tuesday, destroying dozens of homes and forcing residents to relocate. Level 3 is the second-highest level in the four-notch system.