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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A local court on Friday handed down a 30-year jail term to a man accused of stabbing to death a 22-year-old woman near one of the country’s busiest subway stations in Seoul, which sparked nationwide protests. The Seoul Central District Court convicted the man, surnamed Kim, of stabbing the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Three South Koreans have been shot to death in the Philippines, a foreign ministry official said Thursday. The three — two male, one female — were found dead Tuesday with gunshot wounds in their heads, according to the official. Their bodies were found in a sugar cane field in [...]
JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A Chinese man suspected of attacking an elderly woman with a lethal weapon at a Catholic church in Jeju was arrested on Saturday, police said. The 50-year-old man, whose identity was withheld by police, was hiding at an unidentified place in Seoguipo on the southern resort [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – An appeals court on Tuesday convicted a U.S. citizen accused of murdering a South Korean college student in 1997, delivering a 20-year prison term that is the severest penalty possible for the defendant who was then an adolescent. Upholding a lower court’s decision, the Seoul High Court found Arthur [...]
BUSAN, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A sailor on Kwang Hyun 803, a 138-ton Korean deep-sea fishing vessel, saved the lives of crewmen from two murderers who fatally stabbed a Korean captain and engineer. When two Vietnamese crewmen decided to attack the captain, a 50-year-old sailor named Lee was taking a break in a cabin room. [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Saying “hello” to neighbors may be a relic of a bygone era. But when neighbors start suing each other, or worse, stabbing each other, it’s a whole different story. A 33-year-old man, referred to only as Kim, stabbed an elderly couple that lived upstairs at a 23-storey apartment building [...]