President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday hinted at his objection to the scheduled transfer of the investigative jurisdiction of espionage cases to the police from the National Intelligence Service (NIS) next year.
A doctored image is circulating in social media posts that falsely claim it shows the father of a victim of a Halloween crowd crush in the South Korean capital Seoul laughing "after being offered compensation". The picture circulated in posts that accused the victims' families of seeking to benefit financially from .