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320,000 Visitors Flock to See 'Bukang-i' the Shark Over Three Days A cumulative total of 320,000 visitors flocked to Busan North Port Waterfront Park over a three-day Chuseok holiday period to catch a glimpse of a shark named "Bukang-i." According to the Busan Facilities Corporation on September 26, the daily cumulative number of visitors to the waterfront park reached approximately 83,000 as of 6:00 p.m. SBS Sep 27, 2026 11:37 AM

Navy Sergeant Handed Suspended Sentence for Forcibly Groping Subordinate Three Times in Military The 2nd Criminal Division of the Busan District Court's Dongbu Branch (Presiding Judge Kim Byung-joo) announced that it sentenced Person A, who was indicted on charges of forcible indecency by a military service member, to six months in prison, but suspended the sentence. SBS Sep 27, 2026 10:49 AM

Return Traffic Peaks on Last Day of Chuseok Holiday, Congestion Expected to Ease Late Night As of 9:00 a.m. today , the Korea Expressway Corporation projected that travel times to the Seoul Tollgate from major cities will take 5 hours from Busan, 3 hours and 40 minutes from Gwangju, 2 hours and 50 minutes from Gangneung, and 1 hour and 50 minutes from Daejeon. SBS Sep 27, 2026 10:49 AM

Korean Air Unused Mileage Exceeds 3 Trillion Won, Utilization Rate Falls for Two Straight Years According to Representative Chang Jong-tae of the Democratic Party of Korea, a member of the National Assembly's Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee, Korean Air's mileage deferred revenue stood at 3.1199 trillion won at the end of the first half of this year. SBS Sep 27, 2026 10:37 AM

Three, Including Police Officers, Rescued from Tidal Rock in Sacheon After Being Trapped by Rising Tide While Searching for Missing Dementia Patient The Sacheon Coast Guard announced that a report of entrapment was received at around 6:10 p.m. SBS Sep 27, 2026 10:31 AM

Oh Se-hoon: Citizens With Homes and Land Are Not Enemies for the President to Fight Under the pretext of preventing speculation, the complex lives of citizens are judged by a single yardstick, and those who deviate from it are suspected as potential speculators." He stated, "The citizens have already experienced the side effects through the Lee Jae-myung administration's real estate policies over the past year. SBS Sep 27, 2026 10:27 AM

Court Rules Restriction on Early Discharge Justified for Officer Who Received Sponsored Education The Administrative Division 1 of the Seoul Administrative Court (Presiding Judge Yang Sang-yoon) recently ruled against the plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by Army long-term service officer A seeking the cancellation of the discharge restriction disposition against the Minister of National Defense. SBS Sep 27, 2026 9:29 AM

"They Always Fought"… Daughter Kills Mother in Argument During Chuseok Holiday During the Chuseok holiday, a woman in her 50s stabbed her 70s mother to death following an argument. SBS Sep 27, 2026 9:26 AM

Number of Special Education Students Rises, But Special Teachers Fall Short of Legal Standards by Over 4,600 In particular, the shortage in Gyeonggi Province alone reached 1,685 teachers. Furthermore, over the past five years, the number of special education teachers who left their jobs before reaching retirement age was 3.3 times that of regular retirees. SBS Sep 27, 2026 9:16 AM

Study Shows Healthy Family Relations Lower Depression in Parents of Children With Disabilities, Highlighting Need for Public Responsibility This finding was presented in a study titled "The Effect of Family Health on Depression in Parents of Children with Disabilities: Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Self-Esteem," conducted by a research team from Chonbuk National University and published in the 46th volume, second issue of the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs academic journal "Health and Social Welfare Review." The research team—consisting of Jang A-young, Kim Soon-kyu, and Park Yeon-hee—discovered this correlation after analyzing 347 parents raising teenage children with disabilities, using data from the Korea Disabled People's Development Institute's Panel Survey on the Lives of Persons with Disabilities. SBS Sep 27, 2026 8:51 AM