SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new virtual reality program that will be used to better prepare police officers for cases of sexual violence and child abuse is being launched by a South Korean police agency. The Gyeonggi provincial government and the Gyeonggi Bukbu Provincial Police Agency held a test event for the agency’s VR-based [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean public servants on around-the-clock duties, such as police and customs officials, work about 1,000 hours more a year than public workers in member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a government survey showed Tuesday. According to the Ministry of Personnel and Management’s survey, government [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has ratcheted up its struggle against organized prostitution by developing technology that will clog up telephone lines used by brothels. Despite efforts to shut down businesses operating in the sex trade, the dispersal of lurid flyers with phone numbers printed on them has made it [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — In psychotherapy, one of the general principles is that an issue left unresolved will continue to be a recurring problem in the future. When looking at the current handwringing over the dearth of mental health care professionals for fire department personnel, it is apparent that psychological phenomena can also [...]
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 [...]
JEJU, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Apprehending criminals who secretly take illicit photographs on land is hard enough. Trying to prevent such crimes from happening in the sky is an even more difficult task. In the evening of August 4, a call was made to the Jeju Police Department reporting an unusual sight. Two drones were hovering [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than seven out of 10 teenage prostitutions were found to have been conducted through online chat services, a government survey showed Monday. In a recent survey by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family on 173 teens who have experience selling sex in the past, 74.8 percent said [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A series of stories involving taxi drivers and convenience stores helping police in recent weeks is shedding light on how far collective efforts can go in improving community safety. Last Tuesday, a man from Daegu contacted the police an hour after his 82-year-old mother, who suffers from dementia, went [...]
SUWON, South Korea, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A fire that erupted near the Second Surisan Tunnel on the Suwon-Gwangmyeong Highway on March 16 was quickly extinguished thanks to a rapid response by a squad from the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Policy Agency, preventing what could have led to a major forest fire, said the agency [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting March 11, the Korean National Police Agency is deploying drones on South Korea’s key highways to curb traffic violations including DUI, reckless or revenge driving, and other “selfish” driving routines such as driving on the shoulder. The new initiative is a part of the agency’s special crackdown operation [...]