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The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Provincial Special Detective Corps' office in Mapo District, western Seoul [JOONGANG ILBO]

Police arrest 75 in foreigner registration, construction certificate forgery ring bust

Police arrested a forgery ring suspected of selling fake foreigner registration cards and construction certificates to workers from overseas, as well as dozens of people who allegedly used the documents to gain employment.

2025.12.23

Pictured is ″Children,″ a painting ruled a forgery by the Supreme Court in 2017. In addition to scientific, expert and documentary analysis by prosecutors, critics pointed out that the late artist Lee Jung-seob typically did not depict hair when drawing children and favored bolder lines — factors that further supported the forgery claim. [JOONGANG ILBO]

MMCA pulls souvenirs featuring Lee Jung-seob painting long ruled a fake

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) has halted the sale of souvenirs featuring a painting long ruled by courts as a forgery falsely credited to celebrated modern artist Lee Jung-seob.

2025.6.9

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President Yoon Suk Yeol's mother-in-law Choi Eun-soon, center, is released from the Seoul Dongbu Detention Center in May. [NEWS1]

Yoon's mother-in-law to pay 2.73 billion won fine after top court declines appeal

President Yoon Suk Yeol's mother-in-law Choi Eun-soon is on the hook for a hefty fine after the Supreme Court recently declined to hear her appeal against a penalty for violating a law that governs real estate transactions.

2024.11.18

Pak Se-ri, chairman of the Seri Pak Hope Foundation, holds a press conference at the SpaceShare Samsung COX Center in Gangnam, southern Seoul on Tuesday after her foundation reported her father for forgery. [NEWS1]

KBS announces Pak Se-ri as Olympics commentator amid father's forgery dispute

The announcement comes after Pak, 46, held a press conference on Tuesday to address the legal dispute with her father, whom she reported to the police for forgery last week.

2024.6.20

Fake jewelry made in India being exported to the United States via Korea after the country of origin forgery. [KOREA CUSTOMS SERVICE]

U.S. Homeland Security catches Indian gold jewelry forged as Korean products

An Indian exporter has been arrested for allegedly falsely labeling Indian gold jewelry as Korean goods in order to evade U.S. import duties.

2024.3.15

Chung Kyung-sim walks into the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho-dong, Seoul, to attend her trial on Dec. 23 2020. [YONHAP]

Wife of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk granted early release from prison

Chung Kyung-sim, the wife of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk, will be released early from prison, where she has been incarcerated since December 2020 after being convicted of involvement in admission fraud.

2023.9.20

Montenegro prosecutors indict Terraform Labs' Do Kwon for forgery

Prosecutors in Montenegro reportedly submitted an indictment proposal for Do Kwon, the Terraform Labs co-founder behind a $40 billion implosion, for passport forgery.

2023.4.21

[THINK ENGLISH] IT 전문가로 위장한 북한 해커, 국내 기업 취업 가능성

Beware of hiring tech-savvy North Koreans pretending to be what they are not, the Foreign Ministry warned companies in South Korea on Thursday.

2022.12.13

Gov't warns firms in South about North Korean techies

Beware of hiring tech-savvy North Koreans pretending to be what they are not, the Foreign Ministry warned companies in South Korea on Thursday. “DPRK IT [information technology] workers are located all around the world, obfuscating their nationality…

2022.12.8

Chung Kyung-sim, second from left, the wife of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk, is questioned by reporters as she is released on bail Sunday morning. [YONHAP]

Cho Kuk's wife gets bail after 199 days behind bars

Chung Kyung-sim, the wife of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk, was released on bail early Sunday morning after 199 days of pretrial detention...

2020.5.10