North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile into waters east of the Korean Peninsula on Sunday morning, South Korean military authorities reported. 
According to Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), the South Korean military detected the launch of a single short-range ballistic missile from Taechon, North Pyongan Province, toward the East Sea at 6:53 a.m.

The finance minister threw more cold water on the idea of Korea signing a currency swap agreement with the United States.

His comments came just two days after a major rout in the global markets in which the won hit a new 13-year low and panic began to set in.

A total of 450,000 tons of rice will be purchased by the government this year to prop up prices.
Korea will produce about 250,000 tons of surplus rice this year. Rice bought by the government will be added to stockpiles.
The plan emerged after Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, leaders of the People Power Party and senior presidential officials held a meeting Sunday.

Masks won't be required for outdoor group activities involving 50 people or more starting Monday, health authorities announced, lifting one of Korea's last remaining Covid restrictions.
While people have been able to walk outside without masks, a mask requirement for participants in outdoor activities involving 50 people or more in a single setting had remained in place.  

Seoul's presidential office adamantly countered reports that President Yoon Suk-yeol's hot mic moment using foul language, which drew widespread backlash, was directed at the U.S. Congress and said it was instead referring to the Korean National Assembly.  

Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol wrapped up a weeklong, three-country tour with a bilateral summit with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday, in which the two countries agreed to strengthen cooperation on critical minerals to help secure a stable supply chain, before returning to Seoul Saturday.  

The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II was held on Sept. 19 and preceded by many events for 10 days after her death on Sept. 8. Referred to as the “Operation London Bridge,” the British government followed the intricate protocol of handling the queen’s death, which ranges from succession rules to the process of bringing the queen’s coffin from Balmoral Castle in Scotland to Westminister Hall in London on a horse-drawn gun carriage, then to Westminister Abbey and finally to Windsor Castle so that the queen can be buried on the castle grounds next to her husband who died last year.  

Korea’s first ever jukebox musical film “Life is Beautiful” sheds light on national pop and ballad hits from the 1970s to the early 2000s with an emotional yet comic coming-of-age story centering around a family.