South Korea Archives

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video on South Korea giving a submarine to Philippine Navy MISLEADS

By VERA Files | Dec 08, 2023 9:33 PM

A video falsely implied in its headline that South Korea will provide both a submarine and a corvette – a small warship – to the Philippines. First uploaded to YouTube and then on Facebook (FB) on Nov. 25, the video bore this claim in its headline: “PILIPINAS may PASABOG sa CHINA, NAVY sinuri ang SUBMARINE […]

Philippine Navy, South Korea

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: NO PH-South Korea alliance against China

By VERA Files | Oct 03, 2023 5:37 PM

A Facebook video claimed that the Philippines and South Korea have entered into an alliance to oppose China. This is false. There is no such agreement between the two countries. Uploaded on Sept. 25, the video is a clickbait that merely showed clips of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s visit to a Philippine Navy drill and […]

China, South Korea

FACT CHECK FB FC

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Clips of different flood events NOT in South Korea

By VERA Files | Jul 26, 2023 3:21 PM

A video on Facebook (FB) claiming to show amateur footage of the severe flooding incident in South Korea last week used clips taken at different years and locations. On July 17, a Filipino FB user published the video with this caption: “Delubyong baha sa Korea (Catastrophic flood in Korea)! Watch this”. The footage was a […]

flood, South Korea

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: SCAM ang posts tungkol sa pagha-hire ng Korea ng mga Pilipinong kasambahay

By VERA Files | Jun 30, 2023 12:38 PM

Kumakalat sa Facebook ang isang abisong nagsasabi na puwedeng dumiretso sa Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) ang mga Pilipinong nais mag-apply bilang kasambahay sa South Korea.

Kasambahay, South Korea

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Posts about PH-SoKor hiring program for Filipino domestic helpers are FALSE

By VERA Files | Jun 17, 2023 12:28 AM

Several netizens posted status updates claiming that Filipinos can now apply as domestic helpers in South Korea directly through the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). These are false. The erroneous Facebook (FB) posts circulated as early as June 5, claiming that successful applicants can receive more than P80,000 salary per month. One of the posts […]

OFW, South Korea

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Queue in Japan MISLEADINGLY used to show commuters in S. Korea

By VERA Files | Aug 03, 2022 6:30 PM

A photo of a queue taken outside an embassy in Tokyo, Japan, was used by a Facebook (FB) page to misrepresent commuters in South Korea. The page’s post was an apparent attempt to show the supposedly similar conditions of commuters in the Philippines and its two Asian neighbors. FB page President BBM Supporters’ post was […]

commuters, Japan, South Korea

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Commentary

North Korea in the lives of Filipinos

By Ellen T. Tordesillas | Jul 17, 2017 8:07 AM

I’m intrigued by the results of the survey conducted by the American fact tank, Pew Research Center, showing only Filipinos, among seven countries in Asia Pacific, have a generally positive view of North Korea.

North Korea, South Korea