Teen convicted for bomb prank that almost foiled 10-year reunion

The Seoul Northern District Court sentenced a 19-year-old to six months in prison, suspended for three years, for falsely claiming in a YouTube livestream comment that he had planted a bomb at a train station. The defendant, surnamed Yang, posted the comment while watching a livestream on KBS Documentary’s YouTube channel from his home in Seoul on Aug. 15, 2025. The livestream centered on a long-awaited reunion involving two college students and a KBS documentary crew who had met at Andong Stati

By The Korea Herald