SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification ministry has launched a new section on its website featuring “fake news” as part of efforts to prevent the spread of groundless rumors about North Korea and inter-Korean affairs. It is the first time that a government agency has launched such a fake news section on [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Unsubstantiated rumors and speculative media reports about North Korea could cause mutual distrust between the two Koreas and create an “impasse” in inter-Korean relations, an expert said Monday. Kim Dong-yeop, a research professor at Kyungnam University’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies, also called for more efforts to create “high-quality” [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education said Tuesday it will develop and distribute new educational content to help students develop their “media literacy” capabilities to critically evaluate media reports. The new content has been created as an auxiliary textbook concept that will be used in Korean language classes for fifth and [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Fake news that spread on social media on April Fools’ Day raised eyebrows in South Korea at a time when people have been feeling fatigued as the country fights to contain the new coronavirus. The office of the national park at Mount Seorak on the east coast dismissed Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — On top of tracking down potential victims of the new and poorly understood coronavirus and searching for cures that can help treat it, South Korea has another agenda to fight for: tackling fake news. Two weeks after confirming the country’s first infection on Jan. 20, South Korea has seen [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean police said Thursday they are closely monitoring and looking into fake news related to the new coronavirus amid growing fear over the infectious disease. The cyber safety unit at the National Police Agency is focusing on cracking down on fake news related to the coronavirus, such as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A fake news website in Japan that posts offensive articles about South Korea is reigniting controversy among netizens. Last Sunday, one South Korean netizen shared a fake news article most likely written by a Japanese individual on a local online community. “The news articles on the website are either [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Since a major forest fire broke out in Goseong, Gangwon Province on April 4, fake news related to the fire has spread widely on the Internet. Recently, on YouTube and other Internet communities, people can easily find posts blaming the fire on the Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), saying, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A survey has revealed that 2 out of 5 respondents were unable to differentiate between real and fake news. According to a survey that was jointly carried out by Rep. Kim Sung-soo and the Green Consumer Network in Korea between September 21 and 27, many people were found to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon ordered government officials Tuesday to sternly tackle the spread of fake news that he said is disturbing democracy in the name of free speech. At a Cabinet meeting, Lee raised the need to hold accountable those who produce fake news and spread it intentionally. “(Fake [...]