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"Believed They Were Authentic"… Counterfeit Products Worth 4.5 Billion Won Sold According to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety , an individual identified as A conspired with a manufacturer in Shenzhen, China, to sell 4.5 billion won worth of 61 types of counterfeit goods, including cosmetics and health functional foods, from October 2024 to November of last year. SBS Sep 17, 2026 4:20 PM

DP Lawmaker Group: "No Diplomatic Gain Precedes Lives of Troops" ... Opposes U.S. Deployment Request ▲ Civic and social groups, including Daejeon Independence, Unification, and Peac… SBS Sep 17, 2026 4:00 PM

Investment Advisory Executive Involved in Deutsch Motors Stock Manipulation Found Guilty in Second Trial The Criminal Division 16-1 of the Seoul High Court (High Court Judges Kim Yu-jin, Lee Kyung-hoon, and Yang Jin-su) sentenced Min, an executive at the investment advisory firm BlackPearl Invest indicted on charges of violating the Capital Markets Act, to 1 year and 6 months in prison suspended for 3 years, and a fine of 150 million won, maintaining the sentence from the first trial. SBS Sep 17, 2026 3:41 PM

"Maybe I Could Have Won Gold If I Went to the Athletes' Village"... The Bitter Reality of National Athletes ○ 2026 Asian Games, "We Are Also National Athletes" (Broadcasted on September 5, 2026) Kim Geon-myung puts on his work clothes and heads to work at a district office in Busan. SBS Sep 17, 2026 3:36 PM

Court Rulings in Favor of People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy in Lawsuit to Overturn Denial of Real-Name Disclosure in Yoon Suk Yeol's First-Instance Verdict On September 17, Administrative Division 7 of the Seoul Administrative Court (Presiding Senior Judge Kang Woo-chan) ruled in favor of the plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy against the President of the Seoul Central District Court to cancel the refusal of information disclosure. SBS Sep 17, 2026 3:35 PM

Gyeonggi Province Secondhand Smoke Complaints in Apartments Exceed 30,000... Management Regulations to Be Revised The province plans to gather opinions from cities, counties, and housing-related organizations starting in October and formulate a revised guideline draft by the end of this year. SBS Sep 17, 2026 3:31 PM

Suwon Sets Next Year's Living Wage at 12,630 Won, Up 10% From This Year The city's Labor-Management-Government Council held a regular meeting at the city hall briefing room the previous day and voted on the decision. SBS Sep 17, 2026 3:27 PM

Aftermath of Gyeonggi Province Halting Postnatal Care Subsidies... Cities and Counties Consider Independent Support Following Gyeonggi Province's decision to suspend its postnatal care subsidy program at the end of this month due to financial difficulties, frontline cities and counties are reportedly reviewing plans to continue the program using their own budgets. SBS Sep 17, 2026 3:25 PM

Constitutional Court Rules Unification Minister Approval Required for Bringing Goods from North Korea is Constitutional This conclusion comes 4 years and 3 months after a constitutional complaint was filed in June 2022, a case that drew significant attention in the legal community after a court took the unusual step of publicly criticizing the Constitutional Court for delaying its review. SBS Sep 17, 2026 3:23 PM

Active Firefighter Caught Sleeping Behind the Wheel Drunk in the Middle of a Road According to police and other sources, the Chungju Police Station has forwarded a firefighter identified as A, belonging to a fire station in the province, to prosecutors without detention on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol in violation of the Road Traffic Act. SBS Sep 17, 2026 3:12 PM