1. According to data from Statistics Korea on Tuesday, the increase in fruit prices last month outpaced the overall inflation rate by a record margin. Fruit prices surged 40.6% on-year in February, which was 37.5 percentage points higher than the country's consumer price index.
2. The health ministry on Tuesday vowed to swiftly implement a set of measures to reform and improve the state medical system, which aims to ease the burden on trainee doctors. One of the measures includes hiring more fellow doctors by counting two trainee doctors as one specialist.
3. South Korea's foreign ministry said Tuesday it has been providing consular assistance to a South Korean national arrested in Russia on espionage charges. Russia's TASS news agency reported Monday that a South Korean citizen has been held in a Moscow detention facility since late February
