SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Police are tracking down the sender of an email threatening a bomb terror attack at Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome, where a U.S. Major League Baseball (MLB) opening game is scheduled to take place Wednesday. Police said they received a report from an employee at South Korea’s Consulate General in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Unexploded shells and bullets believed to be from the 1950-53 Korean War were discovered at a university campus in Seoul for two consecutive days, officials said Wednesday. Three unexploded bombs, believed to be mortar shells, were discovered near the entrance of Daeseongjeon, a shrine within Sungkyunkwan University, in Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A bomb hoax at Seoul’s Yonsei University prompted about 100 people to evacuate Wednesday night, but police found no explosives, officials said Thursday. An unidentified person claimed in an internet post to have sent a tumbler containing a bomb to the university in anger over a professor. After police [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will begin a 110 billion won (US$89.8 million) project next year to develop a laser device to safely remove unexploded ordnance by 2027, the state arms procurement agency said Thursday. The policy and planning subcommittee of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) approved the project and plans [...]
GUNSAN, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A teenager who threw a home-made bomb at a forum about North Korea held by Shin Eun-mi, an American-Korean activist, has been sentenced to a maximum of two years in prison. The teenager, known by his surname Oh, said at his trial at Jeonju District Court on April 23 [...]