1.Leader of the ruling People Power Party Han Dong-hoon said Friday that President Yoon Suk Yeol's duties should be promptly suspended, revealing that Yoon ordered the arrests of politicians during his aborted martial law declaration. Han added that the president might take drastic action again if he stays in office.
2.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday welcomed the lifting of martial law in South Korea and expressed his expectation for the Asian country's "democratic process to prevail" during a call with South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul.
3.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index dipped 13-point-69 points, or zero-point-56 percent, on Friday to close at two-thousand-428-point-16.
