A story of a Korean maternity home faking an infant’s death and arranging an illegal adoption to an Australian family may not be true, according to Korean news reports. Last month, Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service reported the story of “Emily Will,” who recently found her biological parents and was told that they were tricked into giving her up. The parents told Will that a midwife who h...

A high school dropout stormed into a class in an elementary school in southern Seoul on Friday and threw around a shovel, wounding six children, the police said. The 18-year-old, surnamed Kim, broke into the school compound in Bangbae-dong at 11:50 a.m. and allegedly hit children who were taking a morning class with a toy gun and a shovel, a rampage that lasted for five minutes. Six elementary ...

A Korean-Australian woman has found out that she was the subject of an illegal adoption in which her parents were tricked into giving her up, Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service reported last Tuesday. The 24-year-old “Emily Will,” whose real name was withheld to protect her privacy, said the search for her biological parents revealed the shocking truth that she had been wrongly declared dea...

The father of a 23-year-old man who sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl earlier this month said Thursday his family is suffering from excessive attention by the media. “Our son went wrong, and now our entire family is about to break down. Please spare my family,” 55-year-old Kim said. He begged the media not to reveal personal affairs of the family, and said too much attention was tearing the...

A website run by North Korea has recently uploaded a parody video of Psy’s “Gangnam Style” with intention of belittling South Korean ruling party’s presidential candidate Park Geun-hye, according to a news report. The video on a pro-North Korea website modified Psy’s internationally popular video to put Park’s face on Psy’s body. The parodied song aims to criticize Park for her recent remarks, ...

A teenage boy surnamed Sim has been arrested on charges of hitting a police officer while driving and failing to stop at the scene, and two other teens were indicted without detention, police said Sunday. According to Paju police in Gyeonggi Province, 16-year-old Sim and two other teens hit traffic officer Gu and attempted to flee the scene around 10 a.m. on Friday. Police officers, including in...