1. South Korea saw 50-thousand 5-hundred-68 new COVID-19 cases on Friday. The authorities announced that it will lift the outdoor mask mandate starting from next Monday.

2. Korea Institute for National Unification analyzed on Thursday in a report, that the latest military parade in North Korea was the largest in scale in five years, with 26 different types of weapons identified, and 20-thousand participating.

3. U.S president Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday for $33 billion to further aid Ukraine in war. Biden also said that the U.S will cooperate with several nations, including South Korea to solve the gas crisis in Europe.