SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – University students put on a performance in downtown Seoul on April 25, 2016, acting out jailing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The performance is part of a three-day campaign arranged by university students across the country to demand that Kim be brought before the International Criminal Court for his [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The former head of a U.N. investigative panel on North Korea’s human rights issue called Tuesday for renewed international attention to the problem, saying looking away from the issue amounts to turning away from what the Nazis did in the 1930s. Michael Kirby, a retired Australian judge who headed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A foreigner who was homeless has met a lonely death. However, neither his nationality nor his identity were able to be verified, making it hard to go through the normal procedures after death. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, Mr. ‘Tomas’, a foreigner assumed to be in his 60s, [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) – E-mart, which was the target of negative opinion after spot-checking the lockers of its employees last July, is again courting controversy as its internal policies still allow for the verification of employees’ belongings. On April 22, E-mart’s trade union announced that it would appeal to the National Human Rights [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s human rights watchdog said Wednesday it has confirmed that the former head of a professional baseball club here violated players’ human rights by keeping tabs on their private activities last year. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRC) said Choi Ha-jin, former president of the Lotte [...]
“Crimes requiring DNA sample collection are the ones that are highly likely to recur, and the criminals’ rights to equality is not deemed to be infringed. DNA information to identify the criminals needs to be collected, documented, and preserved, but its collection should be made with their written consent or a warrant and also guarantee [...]