SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of drugs seized before being smuggled into South Korea jumped 30 percent on-year during the first nine months of 2023, the customs agency said Tuesday. The number of smuggling attempts fell 11 percent to 501 cases during the cited period, but the average volume involved in each [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A quarter of drug offenders used online platforms, including social media and mobile messengers, to trade illegal narcotics over the past five years, police data showed Friday. According to the National Police Agency data submitted to Rep. Kang Sun-woo of the opposition Democratic Party, a total of 49,850 people [...]
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, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of narcotics offenders in South Korea rose 19.3 percent in 2016 from a year earlier, due largely to the widespread use of the Internet as a channel to more easily trade the banned substances, a report showed Monday. The tally of drug offenders came to 14,214 at [...]