1. President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol and U.S president Joe Biden will hold their first summit in Seoul on May 21 to discuss strengthening “comprehensive and strategic alliance” between the two countries.
2. Samsung Electronics recorded its best first-quarter sales with 18.95% increase on-year at 77.7 trillion won on Thursday. SK hynix also made the best performance for the first-quarter with about 12 trillion won in revenue.
3. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday that Poland and Bulgaria are now receiving gas from EU neighbor countries, denouncing Russian gas firm Gazprom’s gas cut off.
4. South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases tallied 57-thousand 4-hundred-64 on Thursday. While, the number of the deaths stood at 1-hundred-12.
