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Actor Ko Kyung-pyo caught drunk driving after truck crash

Verified: 2 outlets have reported this story since Nov 14, 2 of them from South Korea.

📍 Seoul, KR·🕐 16m ago·2 outlets

Actor Ko Kyung-pyo is under police investigation for drunk driving after crashing his car into a street-cleaning truck in Seoul early Saturday. The collision occurred at around 3:30 a.m. in Donggyo-dong, Mapo-gu, while Ko was driving his car, news reports said. Police officers dispatched to the scene administered a breathalyzer test, which showed that Ko's blood alcohol concentration exceeded the legal threshold for license revocation. Under South Korean law, drivers with a blood alcohol concent

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The story so far · 2 reports · ✓ Verified Nov 14, 2:34 AM UTC

2 outlets from South Korea, where the story is: Yonhap, The Korea Herald · how we count

  1. Nov 14, 2:01 AM UTCFirst report
    Actor Ko Kyung-pyo caught drunk driving after crashing into cleaning trucken.yna.co.kr ↗
  2. Nov 14, 2:34 AM UTC+33 min· you’re reading this
    Actor Ko Kyung-pyo caught drunk driving after truck crashkoreaherald.com ↗
  3. Severity rose to medium
  4. Verified: a second independent outlet reported itNov 14, 2:34 AM UTC · +33 min
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[Claude] Report 2 is a Yonhap account of the same Ko Kyung-pyo drunk-driving collision with a street-cleaning truck, with no conflicting facts stated.

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