SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Friday sentenced a medical school student to 26 years in prison on charges of murdering his girlfriend for allegedly breaking up with him. The 25-year-old, surnamed Choi, who attended a medical school in Seoul, was indicted with physical detention for stabbing his girlfriend to death [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The last suspect in the murder of a South Korean tourist in Pattaya, Thailand, was extradited home from Vietnam, after more than four months on the run, officials said Tuesday. The National Police Agency (NPA) said the suspect in his 30s was brought home early Tuesday. The man is [...]
HAENAM, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Amidst a growing labor shortage in rural areas, a tragic incident unfolded among villagers engaged in a dispute over the availability of foreign labor during the busy planting season – a critical time for farmers. On Wednesday, the Haenam Branch of the Gwangju District Court handed down a 15-year prison [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A planned murder is three times more likely if it is preceded by an act of stalking, a study indicated Sunday. A thesis recently published by Kim Sung-hee, a police science professor at the Korean National Police University and Lee Soo-jung, a forensic psychology professor at Kyonggi University, studied [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have arrested a 31-year-old subway station worker for killing a female colleague in the public restroom of a subway station in Seoul, one day before a court was set to sentence him on charges of stalking her. The Seoul Metro employee, surnamed Jeon, allegedly stabbed the victim in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 80,000 cases of dating violence were reported in the past five years nationwide, with more than 200 cases resulting in murder, police data showed Monday. According to the data of the National Police Agency, obtained by Rep. Yang Ki-dae of the ruling Democratic Party, 81,056 cases of [...]
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 [...]
BUSAN, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A woman confessed to having let her newborn babies die and then storing the bodies in her home refrigerator for fear that her live-in lover would leave if he found out about the births, police said Tuesday. Police apprehended the 33-year-old woman, only identified by her family name Kim, [...]
JEJU, South Korea, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A local appellate court on Wednesday sentenced a 51-year-old Chinese man to 30 years in prison for murdering an unrelated South Korean woman who was praying at a church on the country’s southern resort island of Jeju last year. Chen Guorui attacked the 61-year-old woman, identified only [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top court on Wednesday sentenced a U.S. citizen to 20 years in prison for murdering a South Korean college student in 1997. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s conviction of Arthur Patterson, 37, accused of stabbing Cho Joong-pil, a college student, multiple times at a Burger [...]