1. The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters for doctors’ collective actions announced Tuesday that 40 medical schools nationwide applied for a combined 3,401 additional admission seats, a number that exceeds the government's planned increase of 2,000 more slots.
2. The Bank of Korea announced Tuesday that the nation's gross national income per capita came to 33-thousand-745 U.S. dollars in 2023, up two-point-six percent from a year earlier.
3. South Korea and the United States announced Tuesday their chief negotiators for talks on the sharing of the costs for the upkeep of U.S. troops stationed in South Korea. Lee Tae-woo, a senior diplomat and former consul general in Sydney, will lead the South Korean delegation, while Linda Specht will lead the U.S. side.
