SOUTH Korean musician DJ Koo was spotted with a ring-like tattoo on the ring finger of his left hand, Oriental Daily reported.

       Koo, 52, has been in the news of late following his marriage to newly-divorced Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu, 45.

       The couple caused shockwaves on March 8 when they announced their surprise marriage on social media.

       They had dated in their younger days before breaking up in 1999, but reconnected after Hsu divorced Chinese businessman Wang Xiaofei, 40, last November.

       They registered their marriage in South Korea, with Hsu filing the relevant documents in Taiwan and sending them to Koo in South Korea.

       Subsequently, Koo flew to Taipei on March 9 where he had to undergo a 10-day quarantine, after which he immediately went to Hsu’s home.

       Social media users noticed he had a ring tattoo on his left hand and speculated that he had tattooed his wedding ring on his finger.

       From Koo’s old pictures on Instagram, he did not appear to have any tattoo there.

       Social media users said the ring-like tattoo was seen in February, which was around the time that Koo and Hsu registered their marriage in South Korea.

       > A 56-year-old hospital cleaner in Singapore pleaded guilty to molesting a paralysed female patient, Guang Ming Daily reported.

       He claimed that he had forgotten to take his medicine and heard a voice telling him to do the indecent act.

       The man was caught in the act by a nurse, who reported it to the police.

       Initial investigations found that the man, upon seeing a pool of water on the floor of a ward, went to clean it.

       After wiping the floor, he looked up and saw the 42-year-old patient lying on her bed with two buttons on her attire undone.

       As he fondled her breasts, he was spotted by a nurse.

       During the court hearing, the prosecutor pointed out that the victim was unable to protect herself nor cry out for help.

       The man’s lawyer, however, said the defendant was schizophrenic.

       The case will continue on April 22.

       ● The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.