SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government on Wednesday launched the first municipal body exclusively dedicated to supporting stalking victims as the country is grappling with a rise in stalking crimes. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon signed an agreement with Kim Gwang-ho, chief of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA), to establish a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — School violence victims will be separated from offenders for as long as one week, starting next month, from the current three days, in an effort to better protect victims, the education ministry said Sunday. The change is one of the first measures in the ministry’s new guidelines to tackle [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Most victims of school violence make plans for revenge, a survey showed Sunday. The Psychiatry Association for Korean Schools conducted a survey of 65 psychiatrists, 78.5 percent of whom said that they had treated victims of school violence before. Among them, 90.2 percent treated those who had the intention [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Surviving Korean victims of wartime forced labor delivered their formal position to reject the government’s compensation plan to a public foundation in charge of the controversial process, according to their legal representatives Monday. They are among those who won compensation cases against Japanese companies at South Korea’s Supreme Court [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Children continue to fall victim to abuse every year but most victims return to the family member responsible for the abuse, even after it has been reported, data showed Monday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare revealed that 37,605 cases of child abuse were reported in 2021, an increase [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 12 months into the implementation of the anti-stalking act, relevant criminal activities are taking on a more devious approach to evading punishment. The Korea Women’s Hot Line, a non-profit women’s rights activist group, reported a case in which a stalker continuously harassed a victim’s friend after finding [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy has sparked online over the government’s plans to support the victims of the deadly Halloween crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district. In a disaster response meeting Monday, the government decided to provide 20 million won (US$14,010) in compensation to each of the dead victims on top of up [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean citizens who have been kidnapped, detained or missing overseas in the recent five years has come to 2,762, an opposition lawmaker said Monday, citing data from the foreign ministry. Rep. Lee Jae-jung of the main opposition Democratic Party said that the number of South [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Phishing scams in South Korea have caused more than 1.76 trillion won (US$1.24 billion) in damage over the past five years, with less than 30 percent of the stolen money being retrieved, government data showed Thursday. Phishing is a process in which victims are conned into sharing their personal [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of reports of dating violence last year tripled from the previous year, while the arrest rate more than halved, a lawmaker said Thursday. The data, submitted by the National Police Agency to Rep. Jeon Bong-min of the ruling People Power Party, revealed that the number of reports [...]