- Seoul refuses to send back nine North Koreans who crossed into South Korean waters by boat, calling them defectors (AP via WaPo, UPI)
- United Nations Security Council recommends UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon to second term (Reuters, Yonhap, Korea Herald, Joongang Daily)
- ROK Marines fire at civilian airplane near tense western border after mistaking it for North Korean military aircraft (Yonhap)
- IMF asks Seoul to raise interest rates more quickly to ensure soft economic landing and introduce more exchange rate flexibility to curb inflation (Reuters)
- Bank of Korea members says it may need to slow rate increases (Bloomberg)
- US Senate Armed Forces Committee seeks to block American military base realignment plans in South Korea and other countries (AP via WaPo, Reuters, Foreign Policy)
- North Korea says it will begin disposing of South Korea-owned assets at Kŭmgangsan resort (Korea Times)
- Pharmaceutical Association asks to sell prescription medicines such as Viagra over the counter in order to counter revenue losses after forty-four over-the-counter medicines were opened to sales in supermarkets and convenience stores (Joongang Daily)
- No Agent Orange but small amounts of dioxin found in waters near South Kyŏngsang Province's Camp Carroll and other bases, said to be not threatening to health (AP via WaPo, CNN)
- South Korea's soccer league hands down ten lifetime bans over match-fixing scandal (Reuters)
- With nothing going on over the weekend, hundreds of thousands of Seoulites gather in City Hall plaza to watch World Cup reruns (Yonhap)
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