[Yonhap News headlines at this time] - 10:30

■ [Launch of Nuri] Today at 12:25 p.m. into space… “All launch weather conditions are met”

The fifth launch time of the Korean launch vehicle Nuriho was confirmed as 12:25 pm on the 7th. The Korea Aerospace Administration and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute held a launch management committee meeting at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, Gwangju, Jeollanam-do at 8 a.m. on the 7th and made this decision after comprehensively reviewing technical preparation, weather conditions, space environment, and the possibility of collision with space objects. Nuri was transported to the launch pad yesterday morning and stood up on the launch pad. Technically, all work was completed, including connecting the umbilical to charge fuel and oxidizer, and checking airtightness.

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■ Samsung Electronics, will the quarterly operating profit reach KRW 100 trillion? Third quarter earnings announcement tomorrow

Amid the semiconductor boom, Samsung Electronics is within sight of achieving quarterly operating profit of 100 trillion won for the first time in Korean company history. Thanks to the continued surge in general-purpose memory prices and the recovery of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) competitiveness, it is expected to continue its best-ever performance in the third quarter of this year. According to the industry on the 7th, Samsung Electronics is scheduled to announce its provisional performance for the third quarter on the 8th. As a result of Yonhap Infomax's compilation of forecasts from securities firms that published reports within the past month, the sales and operating profit consensus (market average forecast) was KRW 200.2577 trillion and KRW 105.4137 trillion, respectively.

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■ Ukraine criticizes Korea, citing article ‘Korea’s Russian oil supply’

Ukraine, which is in conflict with the South Korean government over an undisclosed agreement to allow North Korean prisoners of war to go to South Korea, criticized South Korea, citing foreign news reports that South Korea had supplied a large number of petroleum products to Russia. On the 6th (local time), Vladislav Vlasiuk, an aide in charge of sanctions at the Ukrainian President's Office, quoted an article on Facebook saying that Korea supplied diesel fuel to Russia and said, "This is in stark contrast to Korea's sanctions policy (against Russia)." The British daily Guardian reported on this day that, based on analysis of port records and ship tracking data, seven oil tankers transported a total of more than 176,000 tons of petroleum products from various ports in Korea, including Ulsan and Yeosu, on 14 separate occasions from July to August to the Russian Far East, including Vladivostok. The Guardian analyzed that most of the petroleum products supplied to Russia were diesel, which had the most serious supply shortage in the Russian market due to Ukraine's offensive.

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■ Kim Min-seok “Cho Hee-dae, if you can’t handle the re-recommendation issue, it’s better to quit.”

On the 7th, Kim Min-seok, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, said to Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae, who said that there was no basis in the Constitution regarding the issue of re-nomination of Supreme Court justice candidates, "If you cannot handle such a problem, it is better to quit." Representative Kim made this announcement during an appearance on ‘Minty 07’ on YouTube’s ‘Democratic Party TV’. Representative Kim criticized the fact that the details of Chief Justice Cho's business expenses, which included hotels and restaurants, became an issue in the Legislation and Judiciary Committee's audit of government affairs the day before, saying, "It would have been an awkward position and there would have been an embarrassment of 'Do we even have to talk about Omakase?' (Even that) came out because we were unable to handle the issue of re-recommendation."

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■ Yoido Full Gospel Church “Suspicion of leakage of names and dates of birth of 850,000 members”

Yoido Full Gospel Church, the largest church in Korea that has been confirmed to have suffered a cyber attack, announced on the 7th that, based on its own analysis, it is suspected that the names and dates of birth of 850,000 members were leaked. Yoido Full Gospel Church issued a press release on this day and said, "As soon as we were notified by the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) of the circumstances of the church information system infringement incident at 3 p.m. the previous day, we began an emergency security inspection and analyzed suspected leaked data and system access records with an external security professional agency." He then explained, “Out of the seven cases of suspected leaked data, we confirmed that six cases, including diocese transfer/exit history, office appointment details, and baptism history, did not contain personal information, and one case of change history of member information contained some personal information.”

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■ 2.7 out of 6 admissions are ‘upward’… Stability support increases for those with first-grade grades

In the 2027 college admissions rolling admissions process, test takers used an average of 2.7 out of 6 pages for ‘upward application’. According to a survey conducted by Jinhaksa on the 7th of 3,127 test-takers who used all six applications in this year's rolling admissions, the average number of upward applications was 2.69, similar to last year's 2.67. Adequate support decreased by 0.10 from an average of 2.14 to 2.04, and stable support increased by 0.06 from 1.20 to 1.26.

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■ "Asset gap for single-person households... 3.5 times that of homeowners in their 60s in Seoul and those without homes"

A survey showed that the size of assets of single-person households living in Seoul varies significantly depending on whether they own a home, and that this gap tends to increase with age. The Seoul Welfare Foundation announced on the 7th that this phenomenon was noticeable as a result of analyzing the 'Seoul Welfare through Data' data. The foundation analyzed 921,328 Seoul citizens who met the conditions for a single-person household for one year in 2024, and pseudonym information from KCB, Shinhan Card, and SK Telecom was used here.

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■ Apartment long-term repair reserve accumulation amount of KRW 11 trillion “Constant surveillance network required”

It has been revealed that more than 3,000 cases of violations have been detected over the past five years, such as using long-term repair reserves collected for the repair and replacement of key facilities in apartment complexes for other purposes or not accumulating them properly. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's apartment complex audit data released on the 7th by Representative Jo In-cheol of the Democratic Party of Korea (West Gap, Gwangju, Jeollanam-do), a member of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee of the National Assembly, there were a total of 3,299 violations related to long-term repair reserves from 2021 to 2025. Long-term repair reserves are money accumulated to repair or replace public facilities, such as replacement of elevators and old pipes, and painting of exterior walls. As of last June, the nationwide reserve amount was 11.168 trillion won.

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■ US, “Share information” in response to Russian plague accident… Some even suspect biological weapons

The U.S. Donald Trump administration has urged Russia to disclose more information regarding the suspected leak of plague pathogens from Russia. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a press conference during his visit to Iceland on the 6th (local time) and said, "It is irresponsible to speculate when we have not yet confirmed all the information," and added, "I think Russia clearly has an obligation to share more information with the world." “The more we know about what happened, the better we can respond. Maybe it’s not a big deal, maybe it’s a bigger problem than we thought,” he added.

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■ Unification Church attempts to dispose of KRW 52.3 billion in assets amid investigation into ‘church-political collusion’… Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism rejects

It was confirmed that the Unification Church Foundation, which is being tried on charges of 'collusion between politics and politics' with the Yoon Seok-yeol government, failed in its attempt to dispose of basic assets worth 52.3 billion won at the end of last year and early this year when the investigation was in full swing. According to data received from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism by Jin Seon-mi, a member of the National Assembly's Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee, and the Democratic Party of Korea, on the 7th, the Unification Church Foundation applied to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to dispose of its basic assets twice, in December of last year and March of this year, but the application was rejected. According to the Civil Code and the internal rules of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, if a non-profit corporation, such as a religious foundation, wants to dispose of basic assets such as land or buildings, it must obtain permission to change its articles of incorporation from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the competent authority. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism reviews the reasons for the disposition, determines whether it is necessary, and decides whether to grant permission.

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