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Supreme Court Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae plans to explain his refusal to recommend a new justice candidate during the upcoming parliamentary audit, amid a conflict with the presidential office over the matter.

Military sources revealed the presence of an unexploded land mine at the site of last week's explosion inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), after two South Korean soldiers were severely wounded and another suffered minor injuries.

South Korea ranked 12th globally in the artificial intelligence (AI) diffusion scale, with over 40 percent of the population using the technology in the second quarter, according to a report from Microsoft Corp.

President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating increased for the second consecutive week to 37.9 percent, as a poll conducted by Realmeter showed a rise in positive assessments and a drop in negative ones.

More than 560,000 visitors have flocked to a waterfront park in Busan over the past 10 days to see a 3.5-meter shark trapped in a local canal, affectionately named Bukang-i, which was first spotted on September 18.