SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study by the Ministry of Public Safety and Security (MPSS) revealed that Koreans have grown to feel less safe across all social areas in the first half of 2016, with the level of social safety reported by the general population scoring 2.79 out of 5. The ministry [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Police on Friday arrested a woman who first filed a sexual assault complaint against singer-actor Park Yoo-chun, who was mired in a series of similar allegations, on charges of false accusation and attempted blackmail. The Seoul Central District Court issued a warrant to formally arrest the woman in her [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Police on Monday said they concluded Park Yoo-chun, the scandal-ridden member of K-pop boy band JYJ, is clear of sexual assault allegations, saying it is hard to acknowledge that there was coercion involved. The 30-year-old actor-singer has been mired in a scandal as four different women, all working at local [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Thursday, June 30, was a shameful day for the Korean music industry. Park Yoo-chun, a K-pop singer from the group JYJ who’s under high media attention for a sexual assault scandal, and Lee Juno, a 90s pop star from Seo Taiji and Boys who was recently accused of sexual molestation, [...]
GWANGJU, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of crimes committed by Korean adolescents is increasing, and methods are becoming more elaborate and brutal. There are increasing calls for intervention, while some demand government measures to contain such crimes that step beyond the line of teenage aberration. A high school student, only disclosed as Choi [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A 36-year-old man was arrested on June 18 for breaking into an apartment complex in Daejeon and murdering a female resident (60). The perpetrator was an ex-convict who was released from prison last November after serving 10 years for robbery and rape charges. What’s worse is that the perpetrator [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Park Yoo-chun, the scandal-ridden member of popular K-pop boy band JYJ, filed a complaint with the police on Monday, charging that a woman falsely accused him of sexual assault. The woman, whose identity was withheld, is among four that have filed separate complaints in recent weeks and claimed that [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Two more women filed complaints Friday claiming that they were sexually assaulted by Park Yoo-chun, a member of Korean idol group JYJ. But it didn’t take four victims for Park’s fans to finally turn their backs on someone they had supported and cherished even through Park’s more difficult years. The [...]
JEONJU, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – “I hope that my courage can inspire others to report sex offenders so that they can receive strict punishment.” A 16-year-old girl known as “A” reported that her trainer sexually abused her a year after the incident. The offender has been sentenced to serve time in jail. ‘A’ was [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – It is reported that female migrant workers are easily exposed to one of the worst human rights violations, sexual abuse, in South Korea. Of the migrant women working in South Korea, 10.7 percent went through sexual harassment or sexual assault, according to data conducted by a human rights advocacy [...]