1. The Korean currency exchange rate against the U.S dollar exceeded 1,300 Won on Thursday, for the first time in 13 years.

2. The U.S State Department revealed its Integrated Country Strategies on Wednesday. Its top priorities for South Korea is strengthening bilateral alliance in economy in an effort to counter China, and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula.

3. A magnitude 6.1 earthquake rocked Afghanistan on Wednesday that took the lives of at least 1-thousand people, and injured at least 1-thousand and 5-hundred.