SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Assembly passed a bill Tuesday to toughen the punishment, up to the death penalty, for the killing of newborn babies and related cases of body abandonment amid public outrage over the recent deaths of unregistered infants. The revision of the Criminal Act calls for elevating the punishment [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Cases of maternal filicide (the killing of a child by their own parent) have raised shock, outrage, and concern across the nation. A large number of the “murders” are open-and-shut cases in that the mothers voluntarily called the police and 119 (emergency services) after causing the deaths of their children. What [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A woman in her thirties who killed her newborn baby and sent the infant to her grandmother with a note asking her to give the dead baby a proper funeral was reportedly suffering from economic difficulties. She had to work at a restaurant during the very last stages of [...]