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Copper Prices Rise on Supply Shortage Concerns... Related Stocks Trend Upward According to the Korea Exchange and Yonhap Infomax on August 23, the 3-month copper futures contract on the London Metal Exchange closed at 14,215.50 dollars per ton on August 21 . SBS Aug 23, 2026 9:22 AM

Kim Yoon-duk and Oh Se-hoon to Meet Again This Week to Discuss Yongsan Park Housing Supply With clear differences remaining between the two sides regarding the plan to build housing on the main Yongsan Park site, attention is focused on whether they will approach a compromise by prioritizing the development of scattered sites around the park proposed by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. SBS Aug 23, 2026 9:19 AM

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700kg Elk Jumps Over Truck Gate... Sudden Highway Panic On the 16th, an unidentified animal suddenly jumped out from a moving truck on the road. SBS Aug 23, 2026 9:03 AM

Magnitude 5.9 Earthquake Strikes Ibaraki Prefecture, Eastern Honshu, Japan; Shaking Felt in Tokyo According to the Japan Meteorological Agency , the hypocenter was at a depth of approximately 68 kilometers. SBS Aug 23, 2026 8:55 AM

Another Magnitude 3.1 Earthquake Hits Haenam, South Jeolla Province; Magnitude 2.2 Quake Follows in Jeju on the 23rd An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.1 occurred 21 kilometers west-northwest of Haenam-gun, South Jeolla Province (referred to in the region as South Jeolla and Gwangju), at 6:43 a.m. SBS Aug 23, 2026 8:45 AM

Man Receives Prison Sentence in Appeals Court for Printing Counterfeit 50,000-Won Bill to Buy Cigarettes After Watching YouTube The 14-1 Criminal Division of the Seoul High Court (High Court Judges Lee Hyung-geun, Lee Hyun-woo, and Jung Kyung-geun) recently sentenced A, a man in his 30s charged with counterfeiting and uttering counterfeit currency, to one year in prison. SBS Aug 23, 2026 8:39 AM

US Republican Lawmaker Questions Trump's Reduction of South Korea-US Joint Exercises, Urges Restoration Appearing on the weekend current affairs TV program Bloomberg This Week on the 22nd local time, Representative McCormick, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, stated, "I hope this measure is temporary." Regarding South Korea, McCormick emphasized, "We need to ensure that they maintain a closer relationship with us," adding that relations between South Korea and "other countries that basically want to practice communism" should not be allowed to become closer than its relationship with the US. SBS Aug 23, 2026 7:31 AM

Iran Warns Countries Not to Join US 'Economic War,' Threatens to Treat Participants as Enemies economic sanctions against it as an enemy. According to AFP, Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, stated during a broadcast on Iranian state television on the 22nd local time, "We declare to all countries: do not participate in the 'economic war' waged by the United States," adding, "We will consider any nation that takes part in imposing economic sanctions as an enemy." Earlier on the 19th, U.S. SBS Aug 23, 2026 7:26 AM

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Scorching Heat Defies 'Cheoseo' Solar Term; Yangsan Reaches 36°C, Gwangju 35°C Today is Cheoseo, one of the 24 solar terms, which traditionally signifies that the intense summer heat is fading and a cool autumn is approaching. SBS Aug 23, 2026 7:17 AM

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Fire Breaks Out at Bangeojin Live Fish Center in Dong-gu, Ulsan; No Casualties Reported A fire broke out at the Bangeojin Live Fish Center in Dong-gu, Ulsan, late last night at around 10:40 PM and was extinguished in about an hour and a half. SBS Aug 23, 2026 7:14 AM