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South Korean star Lee Sun-kyun's family bid him farewell in a private funeral, shutting out the cameras that had stalked him in his last months when he was under investigation for drug use.

A South Korean navy sailor has been indicted for producing and distributing materials praising North Korean leaders and leaking classified military information to a Chinese contact. This indictment will follow a nine-month investigation by ROK navy prosecutors.

South Korea has the highest rate of poverty in old age in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. As of the newest report, 40% of Koreans 66 and up are living in poverty, the highest rate in OECD.

A group of South Korean students are suing the government because their college admission examination, Seunung, ended 90 seconds earlier than scheduled. They are asking for 20 million won ($15,400; £12,000) each - the cost of a year's studying to retake the exam.

North Korea has fired its most advanced long-range missile, South Korean authorities say, defying UN curbs. The launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) drew immediate condemnation from the West; it landed west of Hokkaido in Japan.

An American nuclear submarine arrived at a major South Korean port on Sunday, the second that has arrived in the country in the last two months, amid reports of N. Korea and Kim Jong Un testing new missiles.