SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday the government will provide less-lethal handguns to all police personnel working in the field in the wake of a series of stabbing rampages and violent crimes. Providing less-lethal handguns is aimed at encouraging the police to use such weapons to tackle crimes, as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the police officers in Seoul, substantial vacancies exist in the basic ranks primarily deployed for on-site public safety, data showed Sunday. According to data received by Rep. Chung Woo-taik of the People Power Party from the National Police Agency, the agency’s count of sergeants stood at 5,691 as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A man accused of hitting and fatally injuring a passerby while driving under the influence of drugs in a posh neighborhood in Gangnam earlier this month was referred to prosecutors for possible indictment, police said Friday. The 28-year-old man, identified only by his last name Shin, was formally arrested [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Police caught over 10,000 drug offenders during an intensive crackdown on drug-related crimes this year, with figures showing a sharp increase in the number of teenage suspects, the police agency said Monday. Of the 10,316 people caught during the five-month crackdown from March to July, 1,543 people were formally [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Three random assaults on strangers are carried out every day on average nationwide, a police report showed Monday, after recent back-to-back stabbing sprees against strangers appalled the country. During the first half of the year, a total of 925 cases of murder, bodily harm or assault happened either due [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — After a series of indiscriminate stabbing attacks targeting local citizens, armored vehicles and special forces armed with machine guns emerged in major areas, including Seoul’s Gangnam Station, Gimhae International Airport, and Jeju International Airport. Sunday morning brought an unexpected sight near Gangnam Station — armored vehicles instead of the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Minors accounted for more than half of the suspects apprehended for posting online threats of copycat crimes in the wake of recent back-to-back deadly stabbing rampages, police said Monday. Since July 21, when a 33-year-old man wielding a knife killed one person and injured three others near a subway [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Police said Sunday they have tracked down 54 people in connection with online murder threat posts across the country amid concerns of copycat crimes following a recent stabbing rampage at a department store south of Seoul. Police said they are reviewing the circumstances and criminal charges against those identified [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Police intensified their investigation Saturday into a wave of online posts threatening copycat crimes following a recent stabbing rampage at a department store. On Thursday afternoon, a man drove a car onto a sidewalk and attacked people with a knife at a department store in Seongnam, south of Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have concluded that no hazardous substances were found in thousands of suspicious international parcels that had sparked fears of terrorism, officials said Friday. Police had been looking into whether terrorism was involved after thousands of international parcels received nationwide were reported to authorities for suspicions of containing suspicious [...]