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Corruption in South Korea is moderate compared to most countries in the Asia–Pacific and the broader international community. Transparency International 's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index scored South Korea at 63 on a scale between 0 ("highly corrupt") and 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, South Korea ranked 32nd among the 180 ...
Lee Joon, 10.5 years in prison (later reduced to 7.5 years) Lee Han-sang, 7 years in prison. On June 29, 1995, the Sampoong Department Store (Korean: 삼풍백화점; Hanja: 三豐百貨店) in Seoul, South Korea, collapsed due to a structural failure. The collapse killed 502 people and injured 937, making it the largest peacetime disaster in ...
Nth Room case. The "Nth Room" case[ 1 ] (Korean : n번방 사건) is a criminal case involving blackmail, cybersex trafficking, and the spread of sexually exploitative videos via the Telegram app between 2018 and 2020 in South Korea. [ 2 ][ 3 ] A man nicknamed god god (later identified as Moon Hyung-wook, 문형욱) sold sexual exploitation ...
The 2016 South Korean political scandal, often called Park Geun-hye–Choi Soon-sil Gate in South Korea (Korean: 박근혜·최순실 게이트), was a scandal that emerged around October 2016 in relation to the unusual access that Choi Soon-sil, the daughter of shaman -esque cult leader Choi Tae-min, had to President Park Geun-hye of South ...
14 sexual assault or rape. The Burning Sun scandal, also known as Burning Sun gate, [ 1 ][ 2 ] was a 2019 entertainment and sex scandal in Seoul, South Korea, which involved several celebrities, including Korean idols of popular K-pop groups, and police officials. It began on January 28, 2019, when MBC Newsdesk reported a November 2018 alleged ...
Chahee. Yein. Yoomin. Website. melodyday.co.kr /xe /. Melody Day (Korean: 멜로디데이) was a South Korean girl group formed in 2012. The group officially debuted with their single album Another Parting in February 2014 and with three members: Yeoeun, Chahee, and Yein. The fourth member, Yoomin was added to the group in October 2014.
A commemorative Rs. 25.00 postage stamp of (Queen Heo Hwang-ok ) was issued by India in 2019. Heo Hwang-ok (Korean : 허황옥 ; Hanja : 許黃玉; 32AD – 189AD) also known as Empress Boju (보주태후 ; 普州太后), [ 2 ] was a legendary queen mentioned in Samguk yusa, a 13th-century Korean chronicle. According to Samguk Yusa, she became ...
Welcome to Video case. Screenshot captured from the dark web moments after the website was seized by law enforcement agencies. The Welcome to Video case involved the investigation and prosecution of a child pornography ring which traded videos through the South Korean website Welcome to Video, owned and operated by Son Jung-woo (or Jeong-woo).