SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean police said Monday they have busted the largest-ever operation to smuggle drugs into the country, a scheme they say involves Taiwanese and Japanese organized crime rings and Korean dealers. Six people were arrested in the attempted trafficking of 112 kilograms of methamphetamine, an amount that is enough to be [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – At 90 percent, the vast majority of the 382 reported cases of drug smuggling in South Korea last year were via international mail (240 cases), airplane passengers (63 cases) and express package shipments (60 cases). According to National Assemblyman and member of the Strategy and Finance Committee Shim Jae [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Drug smuggling is increasing in South Korea, with the latest figures showing over 41 billion won in illegal drugs were confiscated by South Korean customs authorities in the first half of 2017, with both the quantity of drugs and number of seizures up compared to last year. According to the [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of more than 20 North Korean defectors and ethnic Korean-Chinese people have been indicted here on charges of smuggling methamphetamine believed to be produced in the North into South Korea for sale or personal consumption, South Korean prosecutors said on Sunday, noting they have found circumstantial evidence [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Drug smuggling into South Korea surged to a 14-year high in 2015 on expanded syndicates and diversified trafficking routes, customs data showed Thursday. A total of 325 shipments of banned substances were caught last year valued at 214 billion won (US$174.8 million), up 42 percent from a year earlier, [...]