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Jeong Jeom-sik Tells Kim Min-seok to "Decide on Impeaching Cho Hee-dae... Face Stern Responsibility" People Power Party Floor Leader Jeong Jeom-sik today urged Democratic Party of Korea Leader Kim Min-seok to "promptly conclude whether or not to pursue the impeachment of Supreme Court Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae." Holding a press conference at the National Assembly on this day, Floor Leader Jeong stated, "Prolonging confusion while merely calculating their own political liabilities on whether to impeach or not is an extremely irresponsible act for a ruling party. SBS Oct 18, 2026 2:01 PM

PPP Pledges 'Every Effort to Ensure Sacrifice Not in Vain,' Pays Respects to Firefighter Fallen in Bucheon Blaze 18 after paying respects at the memorial altar for the late Fire Lieutenant Kim Jin-seok, who died in the line of duty while responding to a factory fire in Bucheon, set up at the funeral hall of Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province. SBS Oct 18, 2026 1:59 PM

US Secretary of State: No One Ordered Slowdown of Satellite Communications for Ukrainian Forces Secretary of State Marco Rubio answering questions from reporters U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio asserted that Ukraine does not have access to Starshield, a U.S. SBS Oct 18, 2026 1:50 PM

Why Not Make the President's Golf Outings Public? I once heard a story from someone who had a meal with President Lee Jae-myung around this time last year. SBS Oct 18, 2026 1:48 PM

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6-Year-Old Daughter's Letter in Front of Fallen Bucheon Firefighter's Portrait: "Let's Meet Again Later" A heartbreaking letter written to her father by the 6-year-old daughter of the late Fire Inspector Kim Jin-seok, who died in the line of duty during a fire in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, has been made public. SBS Oct 18, 2026 1:41 PM

Japan to Tighten Regulations on Overseas Leak of Citizens' Sensitive Data Over Spying Concerns The initiative aims to prevent the personal information of public and private sector personnel handling security-critical information from being leaked and exploited for espionage activities by foreign nations. SBS Oct 18, 2026 1:40 PM

IMF Executive Director Choi Ji-young: South Korea Alone Seeing Fiscal Space Expand... AI Boom Won't Fade Anytime Soon Choi Ji-young, Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund , stated, "While other countries are seeing their fiscal space shrink, South Korea is the only one whose fiscal space has expanded (thanks to the semiconductor boom)." Visiting Bangkok, Thailand, to attend the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings, Executive Director Choi met with the South Korean press corps on October 15 and remarked, "The situation is so different from other advanced economies that South Korea stands alone, detached from IMF discussions," describing it as a "positive isolation." According to the World Economic Outlook released just ahead of the annual meetings, the IMF projected South Korea's real gross domestic product growth rate for this year at 3.3%. SBS Oct 18, 2026 1:39 PM

Mother's Anguish over Young Daughter Found Dead Next to Ex-Husband: "Police Just Ignored Us" The biological mother, who lost her four-year-old daughter despite winning a child return lawsuit due to what she described as lax police response, vented her anger, saying, "I have cried so much that I have no tears left." The young daughter of mother B was found dead along with her 40-year-old father, A, inside a vehicle in Pyoseon-myeon, Seogwipo, Jeju, on the afternoon of October 12. SBS Oct 18, 2026 1:37 PM

Ministry of SMEs and Startups Inspects Unfair Trade Between Contractor and Subcontractor Enterprises, Expands Investigation Period to One Year This survey is an annual statutory investigation mandated by the Act on Promotion of Collaborative Cooperation Between Large and Small Enterprises, examining the transactions of 3,000 contracting companies and 12,000 subcontracting companies from the previous year. SBS Oct 18, 2026 1:36 PM

IMF Chief Calls South Korea's Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix Appropriate, Including Future Readiness Fund The International Monetary Fund has evaluated South Korea's fiscal and monetary policy mix, including the establishment of the Future Readiness Fund, as appropriate. SBS Oct 18, 2026 1:33 PM