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Most-read Naver.com articles of the week – May 20, 2012

By Nathan Schwartzman Sun, May 20, 2012 3:03AM UTC View Comments

Top 10 in society. 1. Since his daughter committed suicide, a father has held anti-bullying protests at her high school. 2. Television personality Goh Yeong-wook is accused of sexually assaulting a teenager and possibly two other women. 3. Allegations of a room salon visit in the gambling monks scandal were kinda-sorta denied. 4. An article...

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Most-read Naver.com articles of the week — May 13, 2012

By Nathan Schwartzman Sun, May 13, 2012 12:22PM UTC View Comments

Top 10 in society. 1. Faced with his wife’s diagnosis of terminal lung cancer, an 83-year old man in Busan cut her respirator so that she could die. He was arrested soon after. 2. A woman went a bit nuts on the subway and wound up walking around nude. 3. A thief lured in a...

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Most-read Naver.com articles of the week — May 6, 2012

By Nathan Schwartzman Sun, May 06, 2012 11:46AM UTC View Comments

Top 10 in society. 1. A photo of students who dumped part of their school lunch onto the floor made the rounds of internet message boards. 2. Police say that there is nothing to substantiate rumors of gangsters and kidnappers in the Gangdong-gu area of Seoul. 3. Many workers apparently feel uneasy with Labor Day’s...

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Most-read Naver.com articles of the week — April 29, 2012

By Nathan Schwartzman Sun, Apr 29, 2012 11:37AM UTC View Comments

Top 10 in society. 1. A Chosun-jok (Chinese-Korean) man is accused of stabbing a convenience store worker. This story’s popularity is in keeping with the recent unfortunate media trend. 2. A high school student was injured after being struck by a car driving on the school exercise grounds. The video captured by the car’s “block...

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Most-read Naver.com articles of the week — Dec. 18, 2011

By Nathan Schwartzman Sun, Dec 18, 2011 1:38PM UTC View Comments

Top 11 in society. 1. A report on a Forbes article about which countries produce the most contaminated food products. 2. A photo of a cloud that resembled the Korean peninsula, complete with the sun as Dokdo. 3. A mother dragged her son to the local police station for filching money from her purse. 4....

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