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A YouTube video has been viewed more than 73,000 times alongside the false claim it shows a recording of a university professor refuting a Chinese student's claim that South Korea's Gyeongbok Palace is a copy of Beijing's Forbidden City by telling him the Korean one predates the Chinese imperial residence. However, .
Two images have been shared repeatedly in Korean-language social media posts that claim they show part of the South Korean flag discovered in ancient Egyptian artwork. The images, however, have been doctored from artefacts and replicas of ancient Egyptian scrolls. Experts on ancient Egyptian art told AFP that no iconography resembling the South Korean flag had been recorded in
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Multiple posts shared repeatedly on social media claim the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned South Korea
’s economy will not recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic until at least 2026. The claim is misleading: the posts have misrepresented an IMF report published in April 2021 that focused on government fiscal expenditures, not economic recovery. Separately, the IMF projected that South Korea’s economy will show signs of recovery from 2021.
The claim was shared here on Facebook on May 1, 2021.
Screenshot of partly false post on Facebook. Captured May 4, 2021.
“On the 22nd, the IMF released a fiscal monitor report on 35 major countries. Korea was the only one that was reported not able to recover until 2026!” the text reads.