Interesting news and stories translated into English from Korea and the Korean-language internet.
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A gang of South Korean women who target married men in bars, sleep with them, then threaten to accuse them of rape unless the men pay a fee, are gaining notoriety.31
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Korean netizens remain unsatisfied with no. 1 dairy company Namyang's apology & continue to threaten a boycott over its history of unethical business practices.
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An increasing number of South Korean Christians are becoming disillusioned with organized religion and are leaving their churches, a recently published report says.
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An article discusses the never-ending debate over the age until which a child can enter the public bath of the opposite sex to avoid sexual embarrassment.
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A suicide of an employee at the Lotte Department Store prompts examination of how chaebol-owned retail outlets treat workers and brands under their control.
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The star-child known as 'Little PSY,' made famous worldwide for his appearance in the Gangnam Style music video, is hated online for his multicultural background.
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Board member of Korea's largest energy producer, POSCO Energy, had a Korean Air stewardess remake ramen for him 6 times before hitting her head with a magazine.
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Korean netizen reactions to a news report about Chinese tourists intruding on the Ewha Womans University campus, taking photos, and local disturbing students.
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Faces of this year's Miss Korea candidates, notably different from the ones circulated on Reddit, appear on Korean portal Ilbe. Netizens are blaming Photoshop.
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Translated Korean netizen condemnation of gays and lesbians as disgusting perversion in reaction to the Yook Woo-dang literary award in honor of LGBT writing.
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Controversy erupts online as a female student is pictured kneeling on a roadside, ordered by a senior to do so. Netizens call it an abuse of the social hierarchy.
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A Seoul school teacher has been arrested after violently beating a student listening to earphones in class and then dropping his pants and masturbating publicly.
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As South Korean newspaper the Hankyoreh profiles the families of soldiers, the media wonder why the rest of the country seems so calm about the prospect of war.
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Conservative netizens are optimistically blaming North Korea for Monday's bombing of the Boston Marathon, hoping that doing so will speed up an attack on the North
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Police in Gwangju stop a car sliding backwards with a child inside it. Netizens demand tighter regulations for acquiring a driver's licence.
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Korea netizens express mixed feelings toward the news of the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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On the 9th of this month, North Korea issued a statement telling foreign expats living in Korea to consider evacuating. Netizen reactions have fallen between anger and mockery.