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No Miracle Like the 'Peter Pan Dad's': The Tragedy of a 29-Year-Old with Disabilities The Passing of 'Peter Pan Dad'..Did the Drama End There? A painful piece of news arrived over the weekend: Jeon Gyeong-cheol, widely known as the "Peter Pan dad," had passed away. SBS Sep 16, 2026 4:26 PM

'A Miracle of 0% Runaway Rate?' The 'Human Trafficking' Broker Who Turned Korea into Hell From Duck Walks to Human Trafficking On August 25 in the municipality of Conner in the Philippines, Paju City officials ordered more than 300 local applicants to perform group duck walks without establishing any physical fitness testing criteria, and the person holding the microphone was Mr. SBS Sep 16, 2026 4:22 PM

Government Pushes to Introduce Abortion Pills for Pregnancies Up to 9 Weeks Seven years after the Constitutional Court ruled the punishment for abortion unconstitutional, the government is pushing to officially introduce abortion pills. SBS Sep 16, 2026 4:19 PM

D-Report: 35 Vietnamese Nationals Arrested for Smuggling Drugs from Poland and Consuming Them in Karaoke Bars A billiard room in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province. As police rush in, they arrest a woman. SBS Sep 16, 2026 4:12 PM

Flu Season Arrives Earlier Than Usual; National Vaccination Schedule Advanced by Up to a Week Due to a remarkably early flu outbreak this year, health authorities are advancing the national vaccination schedule by up to a week. SBS Sep 16, 2026 4:11 PM

"Teacher, Let's Take a Picture": The Fate of the Teenager Who Made Sexually Exploitative Content Using Teachers' Faces A teenager who used deepfakes to produce sexually exploitative content targeting teachers and distributed it on social media has been sentenced to prison and taken into legal custody. SBS Sep 16, 2026 4:06 PM

Education Minister Announces Special Probe into College Application System Crash, Weighs Publicly Managed System Minister of Education Choi Kyo-jin announced that the ministry will form a special investigation team with the Korean Council for University Education to conduct on-site inspections through September 23 regarding the recent college admissions application system crash, while also reviewing plans to overhaul the system into a publicly managed application platform. SBS Sep 16, 2026 4:00 PM

Tenant Who Stabbed Landlord and Claimed 'Self-Harm' Gets Reduced Sentence in Appeal The 1st Criminal Division of the Busan High Court's Changwon branch (Presiding Judge Park Kwang-seo) overturned the lower court's ruling against the man in his 40s, identified as A, and sentenced him to 12 years in prison today . SBS Sep 16, 2026 3:56 PM

Education Minister: Around 250 Provisionally Identified for Relief Following College Admissions System Glitch Minister of Education Choi Kyo-jin announced that an estimated 250 applicants have been provisionally identified as eligible for relief following a system failure during the application process for early admissions for the 2027 academic year. SBS Sep 16, 2026 3:46 PM

Constitutional Appeal Filed for Developmentally Disabled Individual Charged with Special Larceny Over 1,500-Won Ice Cream According to the legal community, representatives for the 34-year-old developmentally disabled individual, identified as A, recently filed a constitutional complaint with the Constitutional Court, claiming that the prosecutors' suspension of indictment infringed upon their rights to equality and the pursuit of happiness. SBS Sep 16, 2026 3:45 PM