SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Prior to the launch of police investigations into those suspected of committing a crime, victims have been making use of social media to bring attention to their own cases, posting photos of suspects on the Internet. A case in point is an assault that occurred in Changwon, South Gyeongsang [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has shown that crimes with female victims in Seoul tended to differ depending on each district. The National Police Agency reported that in the last three years, the police stations in Seoul that dealt with most criminal cases related to domestic violence were Nowon Police Station [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest logistics company will team up with the police to foster neighborhood safety. CJ Logistics Corp. announced on Tuesday that it has joined hands with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) to educate 100 delivery personnel on traffic safety, crime prevention, and finding missing persons. Traffic specialists [...]
UIJEONGBU, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid public rage over the viral video of a South Korean man beating his Vietnamese wife, a South Korean police agency is being praised for offering self-defense martial arts training to married female immigrants. Gyeonggi Bukbu Provincial Police Agency said that it held a crime prevention program for 33 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has sent six police officers to Croatia to protect an increasing number of its nationals visiting the country, the National Police Agency (NPA) said Tuesday. They are currently in Zagreb, Dubrovnik and Split and began jointly patrolling streets with local police Monday. It is the first time [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) will begin a policy of mandatory shooting practice for superintendents and senior superintendents as part of its initiative to increase policing capability at crime scenes. “The shooting drills, previously conducted for inspectors or those in the lower ranks, will now be expanded to [...]
CHEONGJU, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A complaint was filed at an apartment complex in the city of Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province for constant baby crying and non-stop noise coming from a downstairs neighbor. The police visited the apartment complex after receiving a report that child abuse was suspected. According to the complaint, there was [...]
CHEONGJU, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — An eagle owl that has been poaching chickens has been ‘apprehended’ by the police. On February 15 at 10:40 a.m., a 70-centimeter tall eagle owl flew into a poultry farm in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province to feed on chickens. It wasn’t the owl’s first ‘offense’. According to the owner [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — An anti-communist investigation office used by police in the heart of Seoul in the 1970s and 80s to torture anti-government and pro-democracy activists will be turned into a memorial hall of democracy and human rights. The government on Wednesday held a ceremony at the former anti-communism investigation division office [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A police officer used a drone to catch a dog that broke into a farm and killed several chickens. Busan Gijang Police Station Lt. Kim Sang-deok received a report last month that a black dog had broken into a farm and killed 18 chickens before it escaped. When Lt. [...]