SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Prosecutors will demand up to the death penalty for those supplying minors with drugs, the Supreme Prosecutors Office said Sunday, amid a sharp rise in the number of minors caught for drug offenses. According to the prosecution, the number of adolescent drug offenders rose 304 percent to 481 last [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A ruling party lawmaker on Friday proposed a bill allowing for the death penalty for those convicted of drugging minors amid public outrage over a recent drug scam targeting students. The revision to the Narcotics Control Act tabled by Rep. Yoo Gyeong-joon of the People Power Party calls for [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A law revision allowing minors abused by their parents to directly file for the termination of parental rights has passed through a Cabinet meeting, officials said Tuesday. The Ministry of Justice said minors will be given the right to directly file a suit scrapping the parental rights of their [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly 3 in 4 law breaching minors turned out to have spearheaded criminal activities in groups, and unlike the common perception that they are no more than petty thieves, the seriousness of their crimes is more severe than one might expect, a study showed Thursday. Lee Jang-wook, a police [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will push for a law to ensure the right to be forgotten for underage people so they can ask for the removal of pictures, videos or other information uploaded by parents and friends without their consent, officials said Monday. Under the envisioned enactment jointly announced by the [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of consumer disputes related to in-app purchases made by minors through their parents’ accounts is increasing. Recently, an individual who has a child in grade six, was surprised to receive a notification that his credit card usage limit had been exceeded. After checking his credit card bill, [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of a decline in the average age of stock investors, the number of Samsung Electronics Co. shareholders who are under 20 years old is rising at a rapid pace, data showed Wednesday. The number of small shareholders in global tech giant in this age group totaled [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly voted Thursday to abolish a decade-old controversial anti-online gaming rule banning minors from late night access to online games. Parliament held a plenary session and passed a revision to the youth protection act, which no longer includes the previous rule banning online game access to minors [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tax agency said Thursday it has launched probes into suspected tax evasion by 97 young people who acquired houses through undue wealth transfers from their parents. The National Tax Service (NTS) said it has conducted a crackdown on underaged people who own expensive apartments and houses even [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of households with children under 18 years old fell below 5 million for the first time in 2019 amid a chronically low birthrate, data showed Monday. The number of households with children under 18 came to 4.87 million in 2019, down from 5.04 million the previous year, [...]