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'Best-sellers' for sale: Korea’s small book market leaves rankings open to manipulation

An author's recent indictment for purchasing more than 1,600 copies of their own work has renewed concerns about the outsize effects of bulk buying on best-seller lists.

2026.9.14

'I Live Alone' production team denies receiving financial support for Jun Hyun-moo's Kazakhstan trip

In a recently aired episode, television personality and cast member Jun Hyun-moo goes on a supposedly spontaneous trip to Almaty, but viewers questioned whether the trip was a planned promotional collaboration.

2026.8.31

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Lee Seung-woo, head of the joint task force on stock manipulation, second from right, briefs reporters on the team’s first case involving unfair trading practices at the Korea Exchange’s Seoul office in Yeongdeungpo District, western Seoul, on Sept. 23. [YONHAP]

Doctors, financiers accused of elaborate stock manipulation scheme

Doctors, financiers and private educators are accused of forming an unlikely alliance in one of Korea’s most elaborate stock manipulation schemes, using more than 100 billion won to quietly seize control of and inflate a Kospi-listed stock's price.

2025.9.23

Members of the Democratic Party visit the Rhee Park School office in Jongno District, central Seoul, May 31. [YONHAP]

Police search conservative group's office over orchestrated online anti-DP comments

Police launched a raid Wednesday as part of a criminal investigation into Rhee Park School, a conservative group suspected of orchestrating a coordinated online comment project against President Lee Jae-myung during the presidential campaign.

2025.6.4

Time to reign in the AI-based manipulation

We do not have enough time, but we still need to make headway and establish a bridgehead to combat disinformation.

2024.2.19

Kim Beom-su, the former chairman of Kakao, leaves after nearly 16 hours of questioning by the Financial Supervisory Service on Tuesday related to suspicions of stock manipulation concerning the acquisition of SM Entertainment's shares. [YONHAP]

[NEWS IN FOCUS] Kakao founder probe sends shock waves across affiliates

With the founder of Kakao under investigation for alleged stock manipulation, the regulatory risk has reverberated across other affiliates such as Kakao Bank and Kakao Mobility.

2023.10.24

Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) Gov. Lee Bok-hyun speaks during a parliamentary inspection at the FSS office in Yeouido, western Seoul, on Monday. [YONHAP]

FSS suspends two Kospi stocks over alleged manipulation

Korea’s financial watchdog suspended the trading of two Kospi-listed stocks starting on Thursday after their prices nose-dived the previous day, raising speculations about price manipulations.

2023.10.19

The fatal attraction of data massaging

Using only favorable data can lead to wrong policies, let alone fabricated data.

2023.10.10

Skewing data enough to delist Korea Inc.

Everyone responsible for the data distortion must be sternly punished by law so that this kind of absurd incident does not get repeated.

2023.9.26

The deadly lure of data massaging

The neutrality of statistics should not rely on the will of the president. The fortress over statistics must be re-established so that independence of government data cannot be touched no matter what.

2023.9.19