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Number of Teenage Drug Offenders Octupled Last Year from 2013

SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of teenage drug offenders more than octupled in South Korea last year compared with about a decade earlier, a minor opposition party said Friday. Teenagers apprehended for using drugs totaled 481 last year, jumping more than eight times from 58 in 2013, the Justice Party said, citing [...]

Number of Teenage Drug Offenders Doubles Over Past 3 yrs

SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of teenage drug offenders has almost doubled over the past three years, but drug education has been given to less than 4 percent of students during the same period, a lawmaker said Friday. Teenagers accused of using drugs totaled 309 last year, up from 164 in 2019, [...]