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, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of male victims of digital sex crimes compiled by a state support agency doubled last year from the previous year, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said Monday. The Digital Sexual Crime Victim Support Center extended assistance to 1,843 male victims in 2021, marking a near [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 1,200 teenagers have fallen victim to online sex crimes so far this year, an elevenfold jump from 2018, government data showed Wednesday. The number of teenage victims rose sharply from 111 in 2018 to 1,268 this year, according to the gender ministry data released by Rep. Yang [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has so far compensated hundreds of victims of work-related diseases more than 14 billion won (US$11.6 million), a special committee dedicated to support such workers said Friday. Samsung’s independent compensation committee said it has completed application reviews for 458 cases, or 92 percent of the total [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Environment said Monday it will proclaim a revision of the current law regulating humidifier sterilizers this week, seeking to expand the scope of diseases caused by the use of the chemical products and facilitate victims’ lawsuits against their manufacturers. A revision of the Special Act on [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean police are seeking to introduce an artificial intelligence (AI) system that recognizes the voices of investigators and female crime victims and automatically makes statements. The National Police Agency is reportedly working on a system to “write statements with AI voice recognition” for related crimes against women. The [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The majority of victims in a deadly humidifier sanitizer scandal that broke out in 2011 are still suffering from various physical and mental illnesses, a report showed Tuesday. Around 83 percent of the respondents said they suffer from lung-related illnesses, while 71 percent and 56.6 percent are suffering from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the introduction of a new legislation that bans harassment in the workplace, one-fourth of all harassment victims were found to be suffering from mental illnesses. Gapjil 119, a South Korean civil group advocating against harassment in the workplace, said that 98 out of 377 cases (25.9 percent) reported [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will open a comprehensive state body to assist victims of sexual crime in a bid to help them with the process of notifying police, according to the gender ministry on Friday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family reported the plan to a meeting of government ministers [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The weekly protest rally demanding Japan’s apology to victims of its wartime sex slavery marked its 1,400th edition Wednesday amid an escalating diplomatic and trade row between Seoul and Tokyo. Nearly 20,000 activists, students and other citizens assembled to participate in the 27-year-old protest in front of the former [...]