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Between August 2024 and February 2025, a South Korean Army soldier repeatedly leaked non-public information, such as South Korea-U.S. joint military exercises and South Korean military training, to an individual claiming to be a Chinese intelligence officer, receiving a total of 88,000 RMB. In August 2026, the South Korean Supreme Court upheld the second-instance ruling, sentencing him to 4 years in prison, along with fines and the confiscation of illegal proceeds.

On September 9, near Hongik University Station Exit at the AK Plaza mall in Seoul, South Korea, an Asian woman and a Western woman pushing a stroller engaged in a physical altercation. According to eyewitnesses, the two allegedly clashed following a verbal dispute, with the scuffle affecting the stroller. Mall security subsequently intervened to handle the situation.

On August 4, a Chinese man in his 20s was arrested for illegally filming women at a cafe in Seongdong-gu, Seoul. Police investigation revealed that he had illegally filmed a total of 27 women across various locations in Seoul. On September 9, the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office indicted the man without detention on charges of violating the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes.

On September 13, 2026, South Korea passed an amendment to its criminal law, expanding the scope of the espionage offense from "enemy states" to "foreign or equivalent entities", and it came into force on the same day. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Mao Ning responded that China consistently requires enterprises to comply with laws and regulations, and also calls on all countries to provide a fair, impartial, non-discriminatory business environment. Statistics from the Korean police show that of the 33 overseas technology leakage cases seized in 2025, 54.5% flowed to China. Previously, a South Korean court sentenced a former Samsung researcher to seven years in prison in April for leaking semiconductor technology to China.

A 30-year-old Chinese male student studying in Korea is suspected of using AI since last November to synthesize the faces of seven victims, including his lab colleagues, into explicit videos, creating 1141 pieces of obscene and pornographic content. The student was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison in the first trial on September 10 for allegedly violating South Korea's 'Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes'.

A 45-day-old infant was rescued in the recent Nepal flood disaster area, considered a miracle. The report criticizes the Chinese Communist Party for being busy expanding border interests during this period instead of focusing on the disaster.

Research institution Citizen Lab has tracked and pointed out that a transnational network of at least 123 websites distributed across 30 countries around the world is disguised as local media to spread CCP overseas propaganda and disinformation.

The South Korea National Cyber Security Center revealed that 18 Korean-language websites have been disguised as local South Korean news media, with an operation style highly similar to fake news websites discovered in Italy.

Italian media outlet Il Foglio was the first to discover that several websites disguised as Italian local news outlets for Rome, Venice, and other cities were heavily republishing and embedding pro-Beijing and anti-American narratives.