Andong Kim clan ruled through three puppet kings — then the king died without an heir
Three kings in a row were puppets of the Andong Kim in-law clan. By 1864 the court was paralyzed and Cheoljong died without an heir.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDNestlé recalled baby formula in 60+ countries — weeks after finding the toxin
Nestlé found cereulide toxin in infant formula in November 2025 but didn't recall broadly until January — French prosecutors are now investigating the delay.
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Dipak Das, director of UConn's Cardiovascular Research Center, was found guilty of 145 counts of data fabrication. He then sued the university for $35M.
Read the caseFifth Third's four-products-per-customer goal bred 124,000 zombie accounts
Cross-sell quotas pushed Fifth Third staff into opening accounts customers never asked for; the CFPB closed it out with a $15M penalty and a redress plan.
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oBike parked bikes anywhere and held S$49 deposits. When Singapore licensed bike-sharing, it shut down overnight — most users never got refunds.
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North Korea's Lazarus drained 342,000 ETH from Upbit's hot wallet in November 2019; parent Dunamu absorbed the entire loss and users were made whole.
Read the caseKakao bought SM Entertainment shares 553 times in 4 days to beat a rival bid
Kakao spent 240B won pushing SM Entertainment's share price above a rival's tender offer to win a takeover — its founder was indicted, then acquitted.
Read the caseMeijian's New Year copy said a daughter was 'not worthy' of her husband — then pulled it
Meijian's New Year packaging carried lines read as demeaning to women — one told a son-in-law his wife was 'not worthy' of him. It apologized and pulled them.
Read the caseToyota: a hack at one plastic-parts supplier halted all 14 Japan plants for a day
A suspected cyberattack at Kojima Industries, a single plastic-parts supplier, stopped every Toyota assembly line in Japan - about 13,000 cars.
Read the caseKIS Vietnam kept letting clients overtrade — its fines never topped VND250 million
Vietnam's market watchdog repeatedly fined broker KIS Vietnam for letting clients trade money they didn't have — no fine ever topped VND250 million.
Read the caseItaú blanket-declined rival digital wallets' card payments — CADE opened a penalty case
Itaú declined rival wallets' card top-ups under generic error codes while clearing its own channels — CADE charged it with abuse of dominance.
Read the caseFamilyMart pulled hahababy's lucky bag three days after launch
The plagiarism storm around YouTuber couple's brand hahababy hit mid-campaign; FamilyMart returned every NT$499 lucky bag about three days after launch.
Read the caseMeesho hired for a boom that ended — then cut 15% and called it a judgement error
Meesho laid off 251 people in its third round of cuts. The CEO admitted 'judgement errors in over-hiring' during the funding surge.
Read the caseBeech-Nut sold sugar water as '100% apple juice' for babies — 215 felony counts
America's No. 2 baby-food maker adulterated its apple juice with syrup, kept shipping while FDA closed in, and ended up criminally convicted.
Read the caseRaytheon's radar melted a chocolate bar — the microwave oven was born
A radar engineer's chocolate bar melted in 1945. He tested popcorn, then an egg. Raytheon built the first microwave. By 1997, 90% of US homes had one.
Read the caseXiabu Xiabu closed 211 restaurants in one year — its fifth straight year of losses
The hot pot chain lost ¥1.3B across five years. In 2024 alone it shut 138 Xiabu stores and 73 Coucou ones — far more than it opened.
Read the caseTasaki, Japan's top pearl jeweler, hit crisis — sold its football team, delisted
Japan’s largest pearl jeweller hit a management crisis in 2008. It sold assets, dissolved its football club, and was taken private by Korean PE in 2017.
Read the caseOVHcloud: one fire took two Strasbourg data centres and 3.6M websites offline
A suspected UPS fire destroyed OVHcloud's SBG2 hall and doomed SBG1; 3.6 million websites went dark and recovery ran for months.
Read the caseNSEL's ₹5,600Cr spot exchange collapsed when fake warehouse receipts were exposed
India's National Spot Exchange defaulted on ₹5,600 crore after 22 borrowers used fake warehouse receipts to siphon investor money.
Read the caseNike called its tennis shirts 'sustainable' — the ASA banned the ad for greenwashing
A Google ad called Nike's tennis polo shirts 'sustainable materials.' The ASA banned it — the claim was absolute, unqualified and unsupported.
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