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“This is a river most hated by the university students,” the post's Korean-language caption reads in part.
The image shared in the post appears to show a road sign of a river named “Jaesugang” in South Korea.“A national river. Jaesugang. Jaesugang (Riv.) Minister of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs,” the sign reads.
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AFP found the image circulating online as early as 2012 in posts claiming it showed a river hated by university students, as “Jaesugang” is Korean for “retaking a class”.
Captions and comments alongside the image suggest people mostly took the photo as a joke, while others appear to have believed Jaesugang was a genuine river.
“[The word] Retaking a class was in fact… the name for a river in the country,” reads a comment on Naver blog.
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However, the image has been fabricated as there is no such river in South Korea.
The river “Jaesugang” does not exist in South Korea, according to the country’s official database, the River Management Geographic Information System (RIMGIS).RIMGIS, developed and managed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, provides information on all rivers in the country such as their names, locations, images and maps.
Meanwhile, a keyword search on the country’s Water Environment Information System also shows no results on the river seen in the misleading Facebook post. The system, managed by the country’s Ministry of Environment, provides information on rivers such as their depth, average temperature and quality.The image, which went viral online in South Korea in 2013, was also debunked by several local media outlets, including Seoul-based broadcaster MTN.
“Details in the image such as the name of the river in English and the signature from the Minister of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs make it look genuine,” MTN said in this report on March 9, 2013.
“However, this image is fabricated by an online user who ‘created a new river’ to satirise university students’ the least favourite thing to do, retaking classes,” the broadcaster added."image" - Google News
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