SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Fake bomb threats and other hoax calls made to emergency services and the police are on the rise, worrying civilians and draining public resources. Compared to the past, the authorities are taking a much harder line on these false reports. An insider with ties to the National Police Agency’s [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – On Friday, April Fool’s Day, police officers and firefighters working in dispatch centers around the country started their day worrying about the prank calls they would have to deal with all day. However, the number of prank calls to 112 (police) or 119 (911) have greatly diminished over the [...]
SEOUL, Nov.2 (Korea Bizwire) – Some of the ridiculous 112 emergency calls that were reported to the police on the day before ’112 day’ on November 2 have been revealed to the public. “There’s a bug in the doorway and I can’t catch it.” “One of the soy milk packets I bought from the home [...]