INCHEON, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A 27-year-old American man has been extradited to South Korea for allegedly breaking into subway train garages across the country and spray-painting graffiti on trains, police said Thursday. The American is under suspicion of breaking into nine subway train garages in Seoul, Incheon, Daejeon and six other regions together [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 600 police personnel will be deployed for crowd control in major tourist spots across the country for Christmas, which falls on the upcoming weekend, police said Friday. A total of 656 police officers and eight riot squads will be mobilized for the duty in the 37 spots, [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Police officers in the southern port city of Busan decided to help out the suspect in a series of thefts after learning of the person’s unfortunate circumstances. According to the Busanjin Police Station, a person stole from an unmanned store in Busanjin District 16 times over seven days earlier [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have decided to stop offering motorcycle escorts for college entrance test-takers in some regions for legal reasons on the day of the national college entrance exam that will take place on Thursday. The Ulsan Metropolitan Police Agency, for instance, plans to use 49 patrol cars rather than motorcycles [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two major tech giants — Kakao Corp. and Naver Corp. — have begun a crackdown on imitation police costumes on their e-commerce platforms in response to the controversy that fake police costumes obstructed the process of containing the Itaewon crowd crush. Naver banned all searches for imitation [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Facts and circumstances revealed one after another after last Saturday’s tragic crowd crush in Seoul seem to indicate that police’s crisis management and command systems were in a mess at the time of the unfolding disaster. Police’s emergency response system, including the handling of urgent calls for help and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The government said Wednesday it will overhaul the current operating system of the police’s emergency hotline, responding to mounting criticism about their failure to properly respond to numerous calls warning of overcrowding in Seoul’s Itaewon district on the night of the tragic crowd crush. Park Jong-hyun, a ranking official [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Police did not foresee that massive casualties would occur from this year’s Halloween festivities in the central Seoul district of Itaewon, a top police official said Monday, responding to growing criticism about their failure to prevent the deadly crowd crush. Hong Ki-hyun, chief of the National Police Agency’s Public [...]
CHANGWON, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A man in his 50s with an intellectual disability was found in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, by a police sniffer dog one day after being reported missing. After receiving a missing report on Monday, the police analyzed CCTV footage of the area and launched a full-scale search effort. Two [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Interrogating suspects late at night in cases that are not urgent constitutes a violation of the rights to sleep and rest, the state human rights watchdog said Wednesday, advising a police station to redress its practice of late night questioning. The recommendation by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) [...]