SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The average age of teenagers caught for gambling has dropped consistently over the past five years, raising concern the crime could spill over to other illegal acts to fund their betting habits, including school violence, officials said Friday. A total of 171 teens aged 14-19 were criminally booked on [...]
INCHEON, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A court sentenced a teenager to three years in prison Friday for attempting to open a passenger plane’s emergency exit door midair under the influence of drugs. The Incheon District Court also ordered the 19-year-old to undergo 40 hours of a drug addiction treatment program after convicting him of [...]
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 [...]
ST. LOUIS, Jun. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), the leading provider of customer experience solutions, today announced the results of a global study1 into the digital DNA, behavior and expectations of today’s teenagers (aged 15-18 years old). The study reveals a fragile relationship between communications service providers (CSPs) and teens, and the role digital [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Police said Tuesday they have arrested a South Korean high school student, who follows the international hacktivist group Anonymous, on charges of hacking some thousands of domestic and foreign websites since last year. The 16-year-old, whose identity was withheld, is suspected of defacing a total of 3,847 websites from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Research shows that Korean teenagers spend an average of an hour and half with their parents, while they wish they could spend more time with each other. Even the hour and half was often spent watching TV together. IKEA, a multinational furniture company from Sweden, conducted an online survey [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Teenagers are much more sensitive than grown-ups to income differences with their peers. This uneasy social trend can be spotted by conversations with the local teens. Interviewed by a local media, a seventh grade student living Seoul, said, “You don’t make friends who live in nice — if not posh — apartments. Since [...]