SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Data from the National Police Agency has revealed a significant spike in domestic violence incidents during last year’s Lunar New Year holiday period in South Korea, with reports exceeding typical daily averages by 30%. According to police records obtained by Democratic Party lawmaker Yang Bu-nam, authorities received 3,384 domestic violence [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – In a significant step towards combating high-risk crimes like stalking and domestic violence, South Korea’s National Police Agency has reported five instances where private security intervention prevented further harm to victims. This success comes from a pilot program run from June to December last year in regions including Seoul, Incheon, [...]
SEONGNAM, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The city government of Seongnam in Gyeonggi Province on Tuesday signed a business agreement with the Seongnam Pharmacy Association to launch a program designed to operate drugstores as safety keepers for victims of domestic violence. As part of the program, the city government will designate 480 drugstores under the [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — When couples discuss finances together, they are less likely to resort to domestic violence compared to situations where one spouse takes charge. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family released a report Thursday titled “2019 Survey on Domestic Violence” based on a survey of 9,060 people, including 6,002 women [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of every four women who suffered physical and sexual violence from their spouses also experienced violence during pregnancy, a recent survey showed. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family released a report Thursday titled “2019 Survey on Domestic Violence” based on a survey of 9,060 people, including [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean nationals with a record of domestic violence or sexual crimes will find it difficult to invite foreigners here for the purpose of marriage, due to the revision of a relevant law, the Ministry of Justice said Saturday. The ministry said it proclaimed a revision of the Enforcement [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will create a multi-language police hotline to better protect foreign wives from domestic violence, the gender ministry said Friday. The government will also ban men with records of serious crimes from bringing in foreign brides and enhance education for marriage migrants and mix-race families to help them [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to enact legislation aimed at prohibiting men with a criminal record of domestic violence from marrying foreign brides, the justice ministry said Thursday. The enactment of the legislation, of which the ministry will make a prior announcement on Monday, comes as part of the government follow-up [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A “one-strike” system will be introduced to prevent ex-convicts of domestic violence from inviting foreigners from Vietnam and other countries to get married internationally. The measure is aimed at preventing such incidents as the “Vietnamese marriage immigrant assault case,” in which a video clip of indiscriminate assault on a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team led by Prof. Cho Chang-soo and Prof. Han Kyu-man from Korea University College of Medicine announced on Monday that it had classified 1,003 people out of 9,217 married couples who had no symptoms of depression at the time of the survey but showed signs of depression [...]