North Korea's Ministry of Defense reported on October 17 that North Korea has completely closed the roads and railways connecting South Korea in the southern border area. According to information released by a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of North Korea, at noon on the 15th, North Korea completely closed the roads and railways in the Ganhuri area of Gaocheng County, Gangwon Province, and the roads and railways in the Dongneili area of Banmen District, Kaicheng City, by blasting. Reports said that North Korea took blasting measures to physically completely cut off the roads and railways on the North Korean side connected to South Korea. This is a legal measure taken by North Korea in accordance with North Korea's constitutional requirements that "define South Korea as a complete hostile country" and the serious security environment where serious political and military provocations by hostile forces have caused war to be imminent. A spokesman for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Environmental Protection of North Korea said that the blasting had no negative impact on the surrounding ecological environment, and the connecting channel between North Korea and South Korea has been completely separated since then. A spokesman for North Korea's Defense Ministry said that North Korea will continue to take measures to permanently fortify the closed southern border.

Five years after the new crown epidemic, the 10th China-Japan-Korea Tourism Ministers' Meeting was held in Kobe, Japan, on the 11th.。China, Japan and the Republic of Korea have agreed to strengthen cooperation to increase the number of tourist visits between the three countries to 40 million by 2030! China, Japan and the Republic of Korea have agreed to improve the reception environment, promote the sharing of tourism data, increase the number of direct flights from various countries and work together to achieve high value-added tourism.。The China-Japan-Korea Tourism Ministers Meeting was established in 2006 and is organized by China, Japan and South Korea on a rotating basis. The next meeting will be held in China in 2025.。

On August 5, after the early meltdown, Japanese stocks continued to tumble, with the Nikkei 225 closing down 12.4%, the largest one-day drop in history, and the Japan TSE down 12.23%. Japan's TSE index futures again triggered the melting mechanism, the second suspension of trading today, Nikkei 225 index futures due to the melting mechanism again suspended. After the meltdown in the Japanese stock market, South Korea's GEM index also plunged 8% after triggering the meltdown mechanism, trading was suspended for 20 minutes, after the resumption of trading, the decline expanded to 14%, the largest decline since 2008.

A South Korean research team recently released a paper saying that it has achieved room temperature superconductivity, which has attracted widespread attention around the world, but has also been questioned.。And members of the research team said the paper was flawed and that a member of the department's team had released it without authorization, and that the team had now asked to take the paper off the shelves。A superconductor is a material that can conduct current with zero loss, but it is extremely difficult to use in practice because it usually needs to be cooled to an extremely low temperature of around -196 degrees Celsius and requires extremely high pressure to become superconducting.。Therefore, if superconductivity can be achieved at room temperature and pressure, it will be of great significance to the development of human science and technology.。In recent years, several research teams have claimed to have achieved room temperature superconductivity, but they have all been proven to be fake.。

South Korea's KOPSI index rose more than 1 percent to a 14-month high, according to data。The total market capitalization of 338 listed companies under South Korea's 73 large conglomerates reached 1770 trillion won, up 24 percent from 1420 trillion won on Jan. 2..6%。Samsung Group to 616.3 trillion won in market capitalization, up 98 percent from the beginning of the year.2 trillion won。It was followed by LG Group (226.7 trillion won), SK Group (168.9 trillion won), Hyundai Motor Group (123.3 trillion won)。

Recently, a jury in Marshall, Texas, ruled that the "memory module" used by Samsung Electronics in the field of high-performance computing deliberately violated five patents owned by Netlist, an American computer storage company.。As a penalty, Samsung Electronics was fined 3.3 billion U.S. dollars (about 400 billion won)。however, the incident caused resentment in the south korean media。Some South Korean media said: "Samsung Electronics made only 600 billion won in the first quarter, but it has to pay a fine of 400 billion won to the United States."？

The South Korean government says it will invest about $422 billion in chips and electric vehicles by 2026 to strengthen its own supply chain, and large South Korean companies, including Samsung Electronics, will join the investment plan.

On March 6, the South Korean government announced a solution to the issue of compensation for victims of forced labor recruitment in Japan during World War II, deciding that a consortium under the South Korean Ministry of Administrative Security would raise funds to pay compensation on behalf of the defendant, a Japanese company.。On the same day, groups of forced labor victims rallied in Seoul to protest the South Korean government's plan as "humiliating diplomacy" against Japan.。On June 6, hundreds of South Korean workers and representatives of their families and civic groups came to the square in front of the Seoul Metropolitan Government to hold a rally to protest against the hasty agreement between the Korean and Japanese governments on compensation for forced labor and to urge the government to withdraw the programme。The organizers of the event announced that they would take to the streets every Saturday to protest, calling on the South Korean government not to engage in "humiliating diplomacy" and to respect the demands of the victims of forced labor recruitment, demanding that Japan sincerely apologize and compensate the victims.。There are also victims who say they will never accept this kind of compensation made by South Korean companies in place of the Japanese side.。Not long ago, Elder Leung Kam-tak, a representative of the victims of forced labor recruitment, also held a press conference in Seoul, accompanied by lawyers and representatives of civic groups, calling on the South Korean government not to compromise with the Japanese government on related issues.。