October 20: Boo Seung-chan's 'finances are tight', mortuary emergency parking controversy, Paris night curfew, withdrawn member's 'ghost file' leaked

Before the repercussions surrounding Gyeonggi Province's firefighting equipment budget cuts and explanatory remarks had subsided, controversy arose over the additional words and actions of ruling party figures and condolence protocol. SBS reported that in a situation where repeated apologies followed, Rep. Boo Seung-chan became embroiled in a new narrative with his so-called financial-related remarks, and that the vehicle of mourners who visited the funeral of a fallen firefighter parked in the emergency-only area of ​​the hospital, inviting criticism that it was an inexcusable mistake. The YouTube current affairs channel Genreman Yeouido's broadcast video related to the 3.45 billion won cut in Gyeonggi Province's fire budget also recorded about 420,000 views, reflecting the high public interest.

In the field of security, issues surrounding the timing of wartime operational control transfer and the gap in surveillance against North Korea came to the fore in the National Assembly audit. While the defense authorities reaffirmed the policy of early handover, saying they could not agree to comments made by Commander of US Forces Korea General Xavier Brunson regarding wartime operational control, the Dong-A Ilbo exclusively reported that North Korea's missile surveillance radar had actually been stopped for nine months amid the rush to transfer wartime operational control. In addition, Kim Yo-jong, North Korea's vice-minister of the Workers' Party, threatened to consider resuming loudspeaker broadcasts to South Korea, saying the southern border is bloody.

In online communities, heated debate continued over political narratives and the principles of state administration. On Pomppu, a post criticizing Prime Minister Kim Min-seok's recent actions was recorded about 14,000 times, on DC Inside, a post about the reaction of the ruling party community was recorded 5,508 times, and on Ddanji Ilbo, a post about President Lee Jae-myung referring to SNS as a breathing hole and lifeline for the people was recorded 5,086 times.

There are a series of incidents where the personal information of users who have already withdrawn from the service is deleted from the main database and left on the server in the form of so-called ghost files, such as backup copies for development testing or Excel extract files, and then leaked through hacking. The Dong-A Ilbo highlighted cases of damage that were belatedly notified of leaks from sites that left sites, and reported that unstructured files missing from the management ledger are being targeted by hackers. In Japan's Hatena bookmark, the announcement of the temporary suspension of the SoftBank customer portal My Softbank received 48 recommendations, and the story of a one-person corporation's experience of obtaining Information Security Management System (ISMS) certification with AI received 61 recommendations.

The security industry warned that autonomous AI assistants that read emails, manage schedules, and even make payments should only be granted minimal privileges, saying that if exposed to indirect prompt injection attacks, it poses a new security threat that could leak corporate secrets and personal assets. At Ruliweb, apart from the controversy over the quality of AI results, there were about 28,000 posts saying that human workforce replacement was inevitable at corporate sites due to the cost-cutting structure.

Meanwhile, in the domestic mobile platform market, Google Maps has surpassed 10 million monthly active users for three consecutive months, solidifying its status as one of the top four map apps in the country along with Naver Maps, T Map, and Kakao Map, and Blotter reported the possibility that Apple will hold a new product event on the 28th and unveil a MacBook equipped with a touch screen.

The performance of the new song NEON by the new group A2O LITE, presented by former general producer Lee Soo-man, emerged as a central topic in the online community immediately after its release. The Dong-A Ilbo evaluated that Lee Soo-man's box office success formula of addictive sound and performance had worked again, and on TheQuo, A2O Light's new stage post recorded about 48,000 views. However, at the same time, about 58,000 comments were made pointing out that it was excessive for a group that included a 13-year-old girl member to wear highly revealing stage costumes, sparking a debate over styling standards for underage idols.

In the overall music industry, the Chosun Ilbo reported that unlike the large number of entries by Japanese J-pop artists in the Asian pop category newly established by the U.S. Grammy Awards, the number of entries from the big four domestic K-pop agencies, including Hive, SM, JYP, and YG, was only 0. In addition, the news of the resignation of Netflix's film director who led the Netflix animation K-pop Demon Hunters (Kedehun) was announced, and the news that Kedehun's main characters Lee Jae and Sam Kim held a surprise wedding in the arms of their maternal grandfather Shin Young-gyun.

On TheCoo, rapper Bobby's broadcast where he confessed that he actually received 10 million won out of the total prize money of 100 million won when he won Show Me the Money 3 recorded about 39,000 times, and an article about anticipation for the ghost story drama Honey Alba, which is scheduled to be released on Netflix (about 41,000 views), and an article about the scene of doctors manipulating pharmaceutical company employees in the drama Doctor X (about 46,000 views) also ranked high.