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 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte showed last week his support for Ronald Dela Rosa, the chief of the Philippine National Police, despite Dela Rosa expressing his will to resign following criticism over the killing of a South Korean businessman by police officers. According to local sources, President Duterte attended Dela [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Blood is thicker than water. The relationship between parents and children is not to be broken. But these days, this unity seems too close for comfort. The number of cases of parents resorting to violent behavior directed to their middle-aged children is increasing drastically. Incheon’s Jungbu Police Department arrested [...]