Interesting news and stories translated into English from Korea and the Korean-language internet.
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Saenuri Party [New Frontier Party] Park Geun-hye is doing her best to stir up patriotic sentiment among Koreans but netizens are skeptical, challenging her motives.12
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KakaoStory has already had nearly 5 million members join in in 3 days, even though many netizens are reacting negatively to it, call it a Path clone.
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Disgraced ex-President and former dictator Chun Doo-hwan's luxurious lifestyle is slowly getting exposed, despite claiming he only has around $300 to his name.
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Last night’s K-league football match between Incheon and Daejeon really kicked off when a member of the crowd began to attack the Incheon mascot on the pitch.
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Instant noodle prices have hit an all-time high following high-level price collusion between the four main producers: Nong-Shim, Sam-Yang, Otoogi and Yakult.
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Korean sexual assault laws have been changed to include underage boys as potential rape victims but the law still doesn't extend to include adult males.
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Google Maps becomes caught up in an age-old Korean-Japan territorial dispute, fuelled by nationalism, over a set of small islets in between the two countries.
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South Korean students at major universities launch a series of Atheist-orientated clubs in response to growing numbers of Christians at Korean universities.
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A blog post apparently belonging to a US soldier became the subject of amusement amongst netizens when a Korean version appeared on popular Korean humor portals
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A cafe owner in an up-market area of Seoul is caught by authorities for secretly filming and storing recordings of ladies while they went to the cafe toilet
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In a case similar to a hit Korean film, a group of deaf students are sexually assaulted leading to many netizens blaming Korean regionalism for their fate.
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South Korean National Assembly member Kang Yong-seok has come under much fire after tweeting whilst drunk and venting frustration at family connections in Korea.
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Rumours of Kim Jong-un's death spread rapidly on Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, before eventually becoming headline news both in Korea and overseas.
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Top Korean pizza companies are under fire, accused of advertising the use of real cheese in their products when actually using fake, processed, imitation cheese.
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Kim Seung-youn, CEO of Korean chaebol conglomerate Hanwha is facing a possible nine year sentence embezzling company funds, with Korean netizens reactions.