■ The substantial examination of the arrest warrant for former lawmaker Kim Young-sun and Myung Tae-kyun, key figures in the alleged intervention of the nomination regarding First Lady Kim Gun-hee, will begin soon. Prosecutors believe Myung received the money by showing off his friendship with the president and his wife, who denies the allegations.
■ The first trial of Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, is just a day away from the election law violation. The biggest interest is whether it will be a fine of more than 1 million won, which is invalid. Representative Lee's wife Kim Hye-kyung, who was put on trial for entertaining meals worth 100,000 won during the presidential election, will also be sentenced to the first trial soon.
■ The opposition parties, including the Democratic Party, plan to hold a plenary session shortly to pass the independent counsel law on Kim Gun-hee for the third time. The power of the people is that the special prosecutor is a bulletproof special prosecutor ahead of Lee's sentence, but he is absent from the vote on the special prosecutor law and discussing how to appoint a special inspector.
■ The first college scholastic ability test since the increase of medical school is being conducted at more than 1,200 test sites nationwide. The headquarters said it excluded killer questions and evenly asked questions of appropriate difficulty that could be solved only by public education content.
■ As the won-dollar exchange rate soared by more than 1,400 won after the U.S. presidential election, the foreign exchange authorities began oral intervention for the first time in more than seven months. The KOSPI rebounded for the first time in five days and recovered to the 2,420 level, but the exchange rate has been mixed in the 1,400 won range.
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