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Boy band Ateez's agency pursues legal action over malicious posts

KQ Entertainment is tracking online posts and accounts that defame Ateez members, sexually harass them, invade their privacy or otherwise violate their rights.

2026.7.21

Singer and actor IU poses for photograph at a cosmetics event held in southern Seoul on Feb. 26.

Singer IU files petition with U.S. court to identify alleged online defamer

As IU's legal team needs to identify the online user spreading false and defamatory claims before a lawsuit in Korea can proceed, it asked the U.S. court to order Meta Platforms to disclose information associated with the account.

2026.7.20

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No evidence President Lee ordered North Korea payments, police conclude

Seoul police said there is no evidence Lee Jae Myung ordered Ssangbangwool to send $8 million to Pyongyang and closed the case.

2026.7.14

Police send U.S. professor to prosecutors over alleged defamation of President Lee

Morse Tan, who was been accused of making false and damaging statements about Lee Jae Myung, has been barred from leaving Korea since before the June 3 elections.

2026.7.1

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, right, and his partner Kim Hee-young attend a gala dinner hosted by the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris in November 2023. [JOONGANG ILBO]

Court rules in favor of partner of SK Group Chairman Chey in defamation lawsuit

A court ruled in favor of Kim Hee-young, the director of T&C Foundation and partner of SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, in a defamation lawsuit against a YouTuber who posted false and malicious videos about her.

2026.5.12

Min Hee-jin opens a water bottle during a press conference held in central Seoul in February. [NEWS1]

Min Hee-jin wins defamation suit against four over 'trash,' 'thug' comments

Former ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin has partially won a civil suit against online slanderers, according to legal circles on Monday, with four defendants found guilty and ordered to pay damages.

2026.4.20

Conservative YouTuber Jeon Han-gil, center, speaks to reporters while arriving at Seoul Central District Court in Seocho District, southern Seoul, on April 16. [NEWS1]

Conservative YouTuber appears in court on charges of defaming president, minor party leader

Conservative YouTuber Jeon Han-gil appeared at a court Thursday to attend a hearing on his potential arrest on charges of defaming President Lee Jae Myung and Lee Jun-seok, leader of the minor Reform Party.

2026.4.16

The Incheon District Court is pictured in this undated file photo. [JOONGANG ILBO]

District court upholds ruling of man who doxxed suspected Miryang gang rape perpetrators

A man who doxxed not only perpetrators in the Miryang gang rape case but also their relatives and unrelated individuals was handed the same fine on appeal by a district court as in the lower court.

2026.3.27

Late former President Chun Doo Hwan is seen at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital's funeral hall in Seongnam, Gyeonggi on July 3, 2019. [NEWS1]

Top court rules that ex-dictator's memoir distorted 1980 pro-democracy uprising, defamed participants

The Supreme Court finalized a lower court’s ruling on Thursday that the memoir of former President Chun Doo Hwan distorted the 1980 Gwangju pro-democracy uprising and defamed those involved, ordering damages and restricting publication of the book.

2026.2.12

Chey Tae-won, the chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry and SK Group, speaks at the 2026 New Year’s gathering of business leaders at the KCCI building in central Seoul on Jan. 2. [NEWS1]

YouTuber who spread false information about SK Group chairman given suspended sentence

A Seoul court on Thursday handed a suspended sentence to a YouTuber who spread false information about SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and his live-in partner, Kim Hee-young.

2026.1.15