SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday proposed tougher countermeasures against stalking suspects, such as the imposition of a restraining order, amid growing societywide resentment over the recent murder of a young subway worker by her alleged stalker. The top court said in a statement that stalking suspects who are under [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A planned murder is three times more likely if it is preceded by an act of stalking, a study indicated Sunday. A thesis recently published by Kim Sung-hee, a police science professor at the Korean National Police University and Lee Soo-jung, a forensic psychology professor at Kyonggi University, studied [...]
WONJU, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A 38-year-old man was sentenced to one year in prison Monday for stalking his ex-girlfriend, including calling her 1,023 times in just 24 days, despite a restraining order from a court. The Wonju branch of the Chuncheon District Court also found the defendant, whose identity has been withheld, guilty [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 5,000 people were apprehended for alleged stalking over the five months since South Korea’s first anti-stalking law went into force, police data showed Monday. A total of 5,248 people were detained for alleged stalking, with 3,039 of them indicted, over the five months since the law took [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to provide support to stalking victims and their families even before they are directly harmed by stalking crimes. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said Tuesday that a revision of the law concerning the prevention of stalking crime and the protection of victims had been [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will provide a set of self-protection gear to stalking crime victims or those exposed to potential risks to prevent such crimes from happening, officials said Thursday. Each set will include a mobile application that allows monitoring of the entrance of the user’s house, a home [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study revealed that the act of stalking is highly likely to lead to sexual assault, violence and other violent crimes. Prof. Han Min-kyung from the Korea National Police University conducted a study of 148 decisions in criminal cases at a first instance court that include the term [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study revealed that the sooner the police intervene in stalking crimes, the less harm comes to victims, with risk of serious injury or death lowered. The doctorate thesis submitted in Dec. 2020 by Kim Sung-hee from the department of criminal psychology at Kyonggi University analyzed a total [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 4,500 stalking cases were reported to police across the country last year, but offenders were punished by law in only 1 in 10 cases, police data showed Saturday. According to the National Police Agency’s data released by an opposition lawmaker, police received reports of 4,515 stalking cases [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The consistent stalking of others will constitute a crime that can be punished by up to three years of imprisonment under a new law. The National Assembly passed a bill on a 235-0 vote Wednesday to strengthen the punishment for stalkers amid growing public voices calling for increasing penalties [...]