SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A court has sentenced Suga of K-pop superband BTS to a fine of 15 million won (US$11,469) on charges of driving an electric scooter under the influence of alcohol, sources said Monday. Late at night on Aug. 6, police officers found Suga trying to get up after falling off [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Trot singer Kim Ho-joong, arrested by police last week on charges of committing a hit-and-run accident while driving under the influence, was referred to the prosecution Friday for further investigation and possible indictment. The 33-year-old was detained last Friday after ramming his car into a stationary taxi in the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A man accused of hitting and fatally injuring a passerby while driving under the influence of drugs in a posh neighborhood in Gangnam earlier this month was referred to prosecutors for possible indictment, police said Friday. The 28-year-old man, identified only by his last name Shin, was formally arrested [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of measures aimed at preventing drunk driving, including the confiscation of vehicles from individuals who cause fatal accidents or engage in repeated drunk driving, will take effect next month, the Supreme Prosecutors Office said Wednesday. The list of cars eligible for confiscation includes instances of drunk driving [...]
JEJU, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — It was late at night on Saturday when the Emergency Operations Center received an emergency call from an automated voice. The voice stated that it had “detected a hard fall and dialed the emergency services.” The caller turned out to be an Apple Watch. The watch is equipped with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A drunk person who drove his car 40 kilometers from Seoul to Incheon was caught by his cellphone’s automatic reporting system, police said Wednesday. Incheon Jungbu Police Station announced that it had apprehended a 30-year-old man for driving under the influence. The man has been charged with drunk driving [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Shin Hye-sung, a member of the long-running idol group Shinhwa, has been arrested for refusing to take a breathalyzer test, police said Tuesday. The 43-year-old singer was found at around 1:40 a.m. Tuesday while sleeping in a stolen vehicle parked on a street in Seoul’s Songpa Ward, according to [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday finalized an eight-year prison term for a man charged with causing a car accident while driving under the influence of alcohol that resulted in the death of a Taiwanese student in 2020. In a retrial, the top court upheld a lower court’s ruling that [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that a law calling for aggravated punishment against repeated offenses of drunk driving or refusing field sobriety testing is unconstitutional. The nine-justice panel made the ruling in a 7-2 vote to a clause of the country’s revised Road Traffic Act, dubbed the Yoon Chang-ho [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A departure order for a foreigner who drove approximately 1 meter while under the influence of alcohol has been ruled unfair, the Central Administrative Appeals Commission (CAAC) said Tuesday. The CAAC, under the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission, said it has repealed the immigration authorities’ departure order for the [...]