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Former President Yoon Seok-yeol, who was indicted on charges of leading the rebellion related to the 12/3 martial law emergency, was sentenced to death in the appeals court. At the appellate trial held on the 29th at the Criminal Division 12-1 of the Seoul High Court (Judge Seung-cheol Lee, Jin-gu Cho, Min-ah Kim), Special Prosecutor Cho Eun-seok's team of insurrection prosecutors said, "There is no reason to hesitate in imposing the death penalty." Former President Yoon was sentenced to life imprisonment in the first trial.

As lawmakers continue to fail to obtain visas to visit the U.S. and the Korea-U.S. Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) is postponed to next year, concerns are growing that abnormal signals are being detected in Korea-U.S. relations. According to diplomats on the 29th, it was reported that communication is taking place between diplomatic channels such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Embassy in Korea regarding the refusal of National Assembly Defense Committee Chairman Jin Seong-jun to issue a visa for the purpose of visiting the U.S. Pacific Command. As the issuance of visas is a matter of sovereignty for each country, it is said that rather than an explicit order to 'issue a visa', there is an exchange of requests and responses for maximum cooperation.

The labor and management of 29 bus companies in Gyeonggi Province have entered the final mediation meeting to decide whether to go on a general strike. The Korean Federation of Trade Unions, National Automobile Trade Union Federation, Gyeonggi Regional Automobile Workers' Union (hereinafter referred to as the union) and employers are holding a final mediation meeting at the Gyeonggi Regional Labor Relations Commission in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si and are conducting negotiations from 3 p.m. on the 29th, the expiration date of labor dispute mediation. If an agreement is not reached by this day or negotiations break down without an extension of the mediation deadline, the union will begin a full-scale general strike starting on the 30th.

The National Intelligence Service announced on the 29th that North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un's daughter Joo-ae is further consolidating the process of selecting a successor and is strengthening her narrative as a military leader by making it seem like she is involved in nuclear and missile work. The National Intelligence Service reported this at the National Assembly Intelligence Committee's audit of government affairs held at the National Intelligence Service building in Seoul on this day, the ruling and opposition secretaries of the Intelligence Committee, Rep. Yoon Geon-young of the Democratic Party of Korea and Rep. Yoo Young-ha of the People's Power Party reported in a briefing.

Regarding the government's final announcement on the 29th of the plan to supply 104,000 households in the metropolitan area, experts evaluated that it would send a positive signal to the market in terms of the excellent location in the center of transportation and the effectiveness of the development plan. However, in a situation where rapid progress is the key to starting construction by 2030, local governments included in the new housing site candidates are expressing difficulty due to traffic difficulties and concerns about the project becoming a bed town.

All 2.47 million ballot papers from the Songpa area for the June 3 local elections, which had been publicly verified by the National Election Commission's special prosecutor team, were taken out from the Olympic Park handball stadium on the 29th. It has been 146 days since the ballots were transported to the handball stadium.

KOSPI fell more than 1% on the 29th, returning the 6,000 mark in one day. On this day, the KOSPI index closed at 5,937.66, down 74.78 points (1.24%) from the previous day. As Samsung Electronics did not announce detailed plans, disappointing listings emerged and the index weakened, with Samsung Electronics closing down 4.13%.

It was reported that customer personal information was also leaked due to a hacking of the company's internal system at the virtual asset exchange Bithumb. According to the virtual asset industry on the 29th, it is estimated that hundreds of pieces of customer information were leaked due to a hacking incident at Bithumb's in-house mobile groupware system that occurred on the 27th.

The Korean Medical Association (KMA) condemned on the 29th that it was the first time since the founding of the country that an emergency room was being searched and seized, and again urged the police who executed the search warrant to apologize.

The first snow fell on the highlands of Seoraksan National Park, including Daecheongbong Peak, on the 29th, when temperatures throughout Gangwon fell below freezing.