SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – In the early morning of October 5, a call was placed to the 112 emergency center, claiming that foreigners were using drugs after lunch. It was not just one or two individuals; dozens of foreigners were said to gather and engage in group drug use. The report was made [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Police received nearly 20,000 reports of stalking crimes over the past two years since the enactment of the anti-stalking law, police data showed Sunday. As of August, police had received a total of 19,394 reports of stalking since the anti-stalking law went into effect in October 2021, according to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A high school student was put under emergency detention Saturday for allegedly attacking three teenage girls in two days earlier this week, police said. The 16-year-old suspect, whose identity was withheld, was suspected of breaking into a women’s restroom at a shopping center in the city of Hwaseong, south [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Police arrested a record number of drug-related offenders this year, a ruling party lawmaker said Friday, illustrating growing concerns in South Korea about drug problems. A total of 12,700 people — nearly half of them unemployed — were convicted of drug crimes as of August, exceeding last year’s tally [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Assembly on Friday passed a new bill aimed at expanding the public disclosure of personal data of violent crime offenders amid heightened public concern over heinous crimes. Nicknamed the “mug shot disclosure bill,” the legislation will allow police to disclose portrait photos of suspects in violent crimes [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The first and second trial courts had differing judgments on whether illegal filming in women’s restrooms in a building frequently accessed by children and teenagers qualifies as producing sexually exploitative material. The first trial court ruled that videos created by filming the bodies of victims, which could cause sexual humiliation, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Police have launched a probe into the suicide death of an elementary school teacher in Uijeongbu, just north of Seoul, for possible harassment by parents, nearly two years after his school reported the death merely as a fall, officials said Sunday. The Uijeongbu Police Station has recently opened a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A video showing a driver smoking a cigarette while refueling her car at a self-serve gas station has led the government to tighten safety measures. However, there’s currently no system in place to prevent smoking at gas stations. Gas stations aren’t even designated as smoke-free areas as per [...]
SUWON, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) –During South Korea’s Chuseok holiday, there’s a big problem with people driving selfishly and breaking the rules to avoid traffic. They often use bus lanes or drive on the shoulder of the road illegally. To deal with this and also apprehend drunk drivers, the police use helicopters and undercover patrol [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Constitutional Court on Tuesday struck down the law banning the sending of propaganda leaflets into North Korea, 2 1/2 years after the law went into force. The revised Development of Inter-Korean Relations Act went into effect in March 2021 to prohibit the launching of anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the [...]