1.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday named Park Cheol-hee, an expert on Japan and the current head of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, as the top envoy to Tokyo,... and Kim Moon-soo, head of the presidential Economic, Social and Labor Council, as the new labor minister.
2.According to data compiled by Statistics Korea on Wednesday, South Korea's industrial output fell 0.1 percent on-month in June for the second consecutive month. However, retail sales advanced 1 percent on-month and facility investment climbed 4.3 percent from a month earlier in June.
3.Israel on Tuesday claimed it killed Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fuad Shukur, in an airstrike on Beirut, launched in retaliation for a rocket attack on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Iranian state media reported Wednesday that Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Tehran.
