An aircraft presumed to be a North Korean aircraft was detected in the sky near Baengnyeong Island in Incheon, and 50 fishing boats and 29 leisure boats were forced to take refuge. Following notification from military authorities, the Coast Guard sent an evacuation text message, and the situation was lifted approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes later.
Public interest human rights lawyers' groups such as Creating Hope and Minbyun announced that they filed a constitutional appeal on behalf of 19 inmates at 12 correctional facilities across the country, saying that neglecting correctional facility inmates during the heat wave was a violation of their basic rights.
Ahead of the US-China summit, the NYT predicted that President Xi Jinping would use a strategy to maintain the status quo and bide his time. President Trump is in a hurry to achieve results, but President Xi is expected to focus on internal economic improvement rather than large-scale big deals with a view to a long term in power.
President Lee Jae-myung presented 'Roh Moo-hyun's Biography' to all members of the Democratic Party of Korea ahead of Chuseok. This is interpreted as an attempt to overcome the divisions within the ruling party that have recently emerged and promote integration.
Kyodo News reported that Iran proposed reopening the Strait of Hormuz within seven days on the condition of easing military pressure from the United States in order to revive the deadlocked negotiations with the United States.
Prime Minister Han Deok-soo attended a joint banquet of German and French ministers to Korea, emphasizing the importance of economic cooperation between the two countries and promising active support at the government level for businessmen to achieve investment results.
Cheongju District Court announced on the 22nd that when a single woman's claim to adopt her deceased spouse's child as a biological adoptive was rejected, it submitted a request to the Constitutional Court for an unconstitutionality review of Article 908-2, Paragraph 1, No. 1 of the Civil Act, which restricts the adoption of biological adoptive children by single people.
Song Sera, ranked third in the women's epee fencing world rankings, won the gold medal by defeating Tikkana Kyria 15-8 in the individual finals of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. With this win, Korea succeeded in winning the women's epee individual event at the Asian Games for the third time in a row.
About 200 silk lanterns from Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do were exported through direct purchase by the Hong Kong Tourism Board and installed at the '2026 International Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Carnival', signaling the company's entry into the overseas market.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Housing and Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG) have opened the ‘Monthly Rent Safe Trust Center’, which blocks the risk of jeonse fraud and pays operating profits to lessors, and has started to promote the project in earnest.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas urged member states to maintain sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, as negotiations to extend the sanctions regime stalled over demands to lift measures on oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman, with Latvia blocking a provisional agreement and Ukraine opposing any easing of pressure.
Jeong-Hyeon Yoon of Hwaseong City Hall lost to Ryan Choi of Hong Kong in the men's foil fencing semifinals at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games and won a bronze medal. This is the first Asian Games men's foil individual medal in eight years since 2018.
South Korean swimmer Kim Woo-min finished last in the men's 1,500m freestyle at the Asian Games due to a previously undisclosed shoulder injury.
On the third day of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, the Korean swimming team added a bronze medal in the men's 400m medley relay, setting a new Korean record. Kim Woo-min, who competed with a shoulder injury, ranked 8th in the 1,500m freestyle.
Korean women's fencing's Song Sera defeated Tamaki Terayama in the semifinals of the Women's Epee Championship at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games to advance to the final and secure a silver medal.
Jeong-Hyeon Yoon (Hwaseong City Hall) won the bronze medal in the men's foil fencing semifinals at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games after losing to Ryan Choi, winning the first medal for the Korean national team.
South Korean fencer Song Se-ra won the gold medal in the women's epee individual event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, defeating Singapore's Kiria Tikanah Abdul Rahman 15-8.
South Korea and China held the 4th Korea-China Maritime Cooperation Dialogue in Tianjin to discuss maritime cooperation measures such as the issue of structures in the West Sea, eradication of illegal fishing, search and rescue training in the provisional measure zone, and joint release of fry, and agreed to hold the 5th dialogue in Korea.
The government has decided to build a gas combined cycle power plant with a capacity of about 6.3GW in Encinal, Texas, as the first project worth $200 billion in strategic investment in the United States. The total project cost is $22.3 billion, and the government announced that it can recover the principal and interest by earning $43.29 billion to $45.43 billion over 20 years. In addition, the construction of eight large nuclear power plants in the United States and the Alaska LNG development project are being promoted as follow-up projects.
Goheung-gun acknowledged and expressed regret that human rights violations occurred, such as spraying fire extinguishers on migrant workers at fishing sites, and announced that it would pursue comprehensive measures to relieve the affected workers and improve the working environment for foreigners. Starting next month, inspections of employment workplaces and human rights and labor law education will be strengthened, and the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Fisheries Cooperative will be urged to strengthen labor supervision.
It was found that 20 out of 89 national rivers had not established a basic river plan that exceeded the legal deadline, and in 6 of these rivers, flood damage such as loss of embankments or flooding occurred in the past 5 years. In particular, Sapgyocheon and Gokgyocheon suffered extensive flooding damage due to heavy rain last year, and fishing industry lawmakers criticized the government for being negligent in disaster prevention.
The Bank of Korea predicted that the increase in the base interest rate would contribute to alleviating financial vulnerability caused by increased household debt and rising housing prices in the metropolitan area, but warned that the interest burden on borrowers and the risk of delinquency would increase due to the rise in loan interest rates. The financial vulnerability index has risen for nine consecutive quarters, but it was analyzed that an increase in interest rates could lower expectations of a rise in asset prices.
NVIDIA announced an additional investment of $1.5 billion in SB Energy, which is seeking to build the world's largest data center, increasing the total investment to $3 billion. However, the New York Times reported that as skepticism about the data center industry spreads on Wall Street, the IPOs of related companies are being postponed or suspended.
