Hailey Jo

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Hailey Jo

After South Korea's Constitutional Court formally removed former president Yoon Suk Yeol from office over his short-lived imposition of martial law, points from a purported BBC "commentary" accusing judges of being corrupt and sympathetic to the North resurfaced online. But the content does not appear on the British broadcaster's website, and the outlet confirmed to AFP it is fabricated.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Hailey Jo

"As expected, the Democratic Party and the Chinese are in cahoots," reads an April 7 post on a South Korean online forum Nate Pann. "It gives me the chills," the post goes on to say. "The Chinese say they protected our country's freedom. This is insane."It features an image showing a simplified Chinese-language poster alongside a partial Korean translation that reads: "The Constitutional Court has upheld Mr. Yoon's impeachment.

1 month ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Hailey Jo

Hailey JO / AFP South Korea9 April 2025 at 11:07 pm·4-min readUsing AirPods is not akin to "wearing a mini microwave" next to the brain, engineering professors told AFP, branding such claims circulating online as nonsensical. While Apple's wireless earbuds emit similar frequencies to microwave ovens, they do so at significantly lower power levels, experts said. "AirPods = Baking your brain in a mini microwave oven," reads the Korean-language caption of an X video posted on March 3, 2025.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Hailey Jo

As South Korea grappled with multiple wildfires in March 2025, images were shared in social media posts that falsely claimed they showed firefighters exhausted from containing the blazes. The images are inconsistent with photos taken of firefighters during the unprecedented wildfires in the country’s southeast, and contain visual artefacts that an expert told AFP are signs of AI generation.

1 month ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Hailey Jo

Hailey JO / AFP South Korea30 March 2025 at 7:57 pm·3-min readAs South Korea battled unprecedented wildfires that ravaged large areas of the country's southeast in March 2025, a video was shared in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed a Chinese woman starting one of the deadly blazes. The video has in fact circulated since October 2022 in reports about a woman being arrested on suspicion of arson at an ecopark in Busan.