SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The justice ministry will disclose the names of those who remove their electronic ankle devices and flee, in order to facilitate their quick arrest, legal sources said Monday. The new rule has been in effect since Friday, the sources said. Previously, only facial features, body characteristics, gender and age [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s Electronic Monitoring System (EMS) was first established in 2008, obligating criminals to wear GPS-based ankle monitors to prevent them from reoffending. Since its implementation, the scope of the EMS program quickly expanded to cover not only sex offenders but also child kidnappers, murderers, and perpetrators of other violent [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A 36-year-old man was arrested on June 18 for breaking into an apartment complex in Daejeon and murdering a female resident (60). The perpetrator was an ex-convict who was released from prison last November after serving 10 years for robbery and rape charges. What’s worse is that the perpetrator [...]
DAEJEON, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Two sexual offenders currently ordered by courts to wear an electronic monitoring anklet, were arrested by the Daejeon police for having destroyed and discarded their anklets. According to statements from the Daejeon District Court and the police on May 19, a man in his fifties, ordered to wear an [...]