A referee in the Korean Basketball League allegedly received a bribe from a team in exchange for favorable calls, Busan police said on Tuesday. Both the referee’s name and the team which handed him the money were withheld by authorities. According to Busan Metropolitan Police agency, an unnamed official from a KBL team gave the 44-year-old referee 2 million won ($1,834) in cash and a notebook co...

A woman who bit off the tongue of a man has been cleared of assault, according to local authorities in Uijeongbu. The man had tried to force her to kiss him and the prosecutors said on Tuesday that she acted to defend herself. Uijeongbu District Prosecutors’ Office said it has decided not to indict the 23-year-old woman for inflicting a severe injury on the 54-year-old taxi driver, surnamed Lee...

A 33-year-old man stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death and killed himself in Gangnam in southern Seoul on Tuesday. According to Gangnam Police Station, the man identified only by his surname Oh disguised himself as a delivery man and entered the apartment of his former girlfriend, 33-year-old Choi. Oh killed Choi and stabbed her fiancé Park, who had tried to stop him, and then committed suicide. ...

An arsonist who torched a government office room and fell off a building to his death on Sunday had criticized the government in the past for “trying to remove the theory of evolution from textbooks,” highlighting a year-long feud between evolutionists and creationists in South Korea. The 61-year-old man, identified only by his surname Kim, claimed in his personal blog that the Education Ministr...

A female Korean student living in New York is looking for a fake roommate and an apartment to hide her engagement with a Caucasian man from overly protective parents. The unnamed student, who posted the request last week on social media network Reddit, said her “loving and protective” mother in Korea is sending her brother to the Big Apple to check up on her. For the girl, the visit will reveal...