SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A 30-year-old loan shark who allegedly drove a single mother to suicide through relentless harassment and threats has been indicted and will face trial, South Korean prosecutors announced on January 3, 2025. The suspect, identified only as A, was charged with violating multiple laws, including the Act on Registration of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — About 520,000 people, or 1.3 percent of South Korea’s population, were believed to have borrowed money from loan sharks last year, a survey showed Tuesday. They borrowed an estimated 6.8 trillion won (US$6 billion) from unregistered lenders at the end of last year, according to the survey of 5,000 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — In February, a man in his 40s secretly took out a loan for 1 million won from a loan shark, without his family’s knowledge, under the premise that he would be paying it back within a week. Left with only 600,000 won in his hands after 400,000 won in [...]