SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Tuesday sentenced a former subway worker to 40 years in prison for killing a female colleague he had stalked in a public restroom at a subway station. The man, Jeon Joo-hwan, was found guilty of revenge killing and other charges for stabbing the victim to [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A stalking murder suspect was given a life sentence by a local court Tuesday for killing his former girlfriend’s mother and seriously injuring her younger brother. The Seoul Eastern District Court sentenced the suspect named Lee Seok-joon, 26, to life in prison after finding him guilty of multiple charges, [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Friday sentenced a man to life in prison for sexually assaulting and killing a 20-month-old baby girl. The verdict raised a lower court’s 30-year prison term for the 30-year-old man, identified only by his surname Yang, charged with raping and killing the baby daughter of [...]
INCHEON, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A 32-year-old single mother was sentenced to 20 years behind bars Friday for leaving her three-year-old daughter home alone for three days, causing her to die of dehydration and neglect. The Incheon District Court also ordered her to take 40 hours of child abuse therapy and barred her from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The former leader of K-pop boy band iKON got a suspended sentence on drug abuse charges on Friday. The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Kim Han-bin, better known by his stage name B.I, to three years in prison, suspended for four years. He was ordered to do 80 hours [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Seungri, the disgraced former member of K-pop boy band BIGBANG, was sentenced to a three-year prison term by a military court on Thursday on nine charges, including prostitution mediation and overseas gambling. The Army’s general military court in Yongin, south of Seoul, also ordered the immediate detention of the [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A woman who abused her adopted daughter to death was sentenced to life in prison on Friday in a fatal child abuse case that shocked the country. The Seoul Southern District Court ruled that the woman, surnamed Jang, intentionally harmed her daughter, named Jung-in, dismissing her claim that the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk’s wife was sentenced by a Seoul court on Wednesday to imprisonment of four years for academic fraud and financial misconduct. The Seoul Central District Court handed down the jail sentence, together with a fine of 500 million won (US$451,000) and a forfeit of 140 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Thursday sentenced the mastermind of one of the country’s largest online sex trafficking rings to 40 years in prison. The Seoul Central District Court found Cho Ju-bin guilty of violating laws to protect minors from sexual abuse and of operating a criminal ring to make [...]