This is definitely a danger of publicly trying to predict stocks, that someone will blame you personally for losses:

A man in his 20s was arrested by police in Busan on suspicion of attacking a stock investment YouTuber with a weapon. Investigations revealed he harbored resentment after suffering losses from investments he made based solely on the YouTuber’s advice.

The Busan Nambu Police Station announced on the 14th that it had detained a man in his 20s, identified as Mr. A, on charges of attempted murder.

Mr. A is accused of stabbing a man in his 40s, identified as Mr. B, multiple times with a weapon around 8:09 a.m. on the 13th at a commercial building in Busan’s Nam District before fleeing the scene.

Mr. B was reportedly a stock investment YouTuber. Mr. A, a subscriber to Mr. B’s YouTube channel, allegedly acted on revenge after incurring significant losses from investments made solely based on Mr. B’s recommendations.

Chosun Ilbo

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Here is another example of someone trying to use smart glasses to cheat on a test:

South Korean prosecutors have summarily indicted a man in his 40s for using AI-powered glasses to cheat on a national qualification exam, marking the country’s first legal action involving the devices.

The Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office indicted the man last month on charges of violating the National Technical Qualification Act, local media outlets reported Monday.

He was caught in May while taking a fire protection facilities engineer certification exam in Gwangju. An exam supervisor reportedly became suspicious after noticing light reflected on the lenses of his glasses.

During the investigation, the man admitted cheating and said he had developed an AI application linked to the glasses and wanted to see whether the correct answers would be displayed properly.

Two other men in their 20s were booked after being caught using the same method at national technical qualification exam sites in Seoul and Mokpo that month.

AI glasses were also used in several TOEIC cheating cases, with two people caught in May and another in June.

Korea Herald

You can read more at the link, but these are just examples of the people who were caught, how many unqualified people may have passed national testing before proctors caught on?

This criminal case is just totally bizarre, basically some woman keeps getting pregnant by some foreign guy and keeps convincing her Korean husband the kid is his. This guy appears to be the ultimate simp:

A Korean couple who abandoned two infants nearly two decades ago because they “looked like foreigners” received suspended prison sentences, according to legal circles Sunday.

The Uijeongbu District Court sentenced the mother to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years, for violating the Child Welfare Act. Her husband was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for the same charge.

According to the court, the woman gave birth to her first child in 2005 while living with the man in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province.

The man, who believed throughout the pregnancy that he was the child’s biological father, realized after the birth that the baby was biracial. Concluding the child was not his, he decided to abandon the infant, and the mother complied.

The couple left the newborn on the doorstep of an orphanage in northern Gyeonggi Province less than a month after the birth.

The two reunited in 2008. The woman was pregnant with another child fathered by a foreign man, but the man once again believed he was the biological father.

After the couple legally married, the woman gave birth in a makeshift shed on a farm owned by the man’s parents. They raised the child for about a year.

As the child grew older, however, the man again realized the child was not biologically his.

Fearing confrontation, the woman fled in March 2009, leaving the child behind. The man subsequently abandoned the second child at the doorstep of the same orphanage.

Korea Herald

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I didn’t think this 20% fee idea was going to last very long and sure enough 24 hours later it is gone:

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday dropped his proposal to impose a 20 percent “reimbursement” fee on cargo shipped through the crucial Strait of Hormuz, saying that he will replace it with trade and investment deals with Middle Eastern countries.

Trump made the remarks in a social media post, just a day after he announced that the United States will serve as the “guardian” of the strait and be “reimbursed” at a 20 percent rate on all cargo shipped through the waterway that Iran had all but closed amid the Middle East conflict.

“Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20 percent United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. (……)

During a press availability, Trump said that he scrapped the proposed fee as Gulf state officials told him over the phone that they would like to “do it a different way” and invest in the U.S. “with billions and billions of dollars.”

Yonhap

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This conviction makes me wonder if anyone has ever been convicted before for receiving a free opinion poll?:

This file composite photo shows former President Yoon Suk Yeol (L) and self-proclaimed power broker Myung Tae-kyun. (Yonhap)

A Seoul district court on Monday sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to two years in prison after finding him partially guilty of accepting illegal political funds in the form of free opinion polls from a self-proclaimed power broker.

The Seoul Central District Court convicted the jailed former president on charges of violating the Political Funds Act in a ruling that marked a departure from a separate trial where his wife was acquitted on the same charges.

Special counsel Min Joong-ki’s team earlier indicted Yoon on charges of colluding with his wife, former first lady Kim Keon Hee, and receiving 58 opinion polls worth about 270 million won (US$180,100) in total for free from the power broker, Myung Tae-kyun, between April 2021 and March 2022.

In its ruling, the court recognized that Yoon had received 14 opinion polls from Myung for free over the period, sentencing him to prison and ordering a forfeiture of 13.96 million won.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link.

It will be interesting to see what becomes of this:

President Lee Jae Myung speaks during a meeting on state financial strategies at Cheong Wa Dae on July 13, 2026. (Yonhap)

President Lee Jae Myung said Monday that the government will use additional tax revenue expected from the ongoing semiconductor boom to create a “future response fund” aimed at investing in future industries and policies for younger generations.

Yonhap

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South Korea is apparently performing well at this year’s RIMPAC exercise:

This photo of Vice Adm. Jeffrey Jablon, deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, is provided by the Pacific Fleet. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

A senior U.S. Pacific Fleet commander said Sunday he was “extremely pleased” with the South Korean Navy’s performance during this year’s Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC), praising Seoul’s expanded leadership role in the multinational drills.

Rear Adm. Kim In-ho is serving as RIMPAC’s combined maritime component commander, making South Korea the first Asian country and the fourth nation outside the United States to hold the post.

A senior U.S. Pacific Fleet commander said Sunday he was “extremely pleased” with the South Korean Navy’s performance during this year’s Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC), praising Seoul’s expanded leadership role in the multinational drills.

Rear Adm. Kim In-ho is serving as RIMPAC’s combined maritime component commander, making South Korea the first Asian country and the fourth nation outside the United States to hold the post.

“We are very happy to partner with the Republic of Korea and Rear Adm. In-Ho Kim and his team. I am extremely pleased with their performance,” Vice Adm. Jeffrey Jablon, deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, said in a written response to Korean media.

Yonhap

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