SEJONG, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — At a primary school in Gyeonggi Province last May, a fifth-grade teacher was punched in the face after issuing a warning to a male student who was talking in class. The impact of the punch caused a crack in one of teacher’s upper teeth. The teacher then tried to [...]
JEUNGPYEONG, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — On April 2, Kang Yeon-hui, a 51-year-old female paramedic from the Iksan Fire Station, was hit in the head by a drunken man in his 40s. Four days later, Kang was hospitalized after suffering from vomiting and dizziness before undergoing surgery for cerebral hemorrhage and pulmonary angioneurotic edema. She [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Fire Agency vowed Thursday to not tolerate violence against rescue workers after a female firefighter died of a stroke believed to be linked to stress from verbal and physical abuse she suffered from a drunken man. The 51-year-old rescue worker, Kang Yeon-hee, died Tuesday, about a month [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A second division club in the South Korean football league on Thursday was ordered to play its next home match behind closed doors after its supporters’ violent behavior. The disciplinary committee of the K League decided that Bucheon FC will have to play their home match against Asan [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Murder and violence cases stemming from neighbor disputes over floor noise are on the rise in South Korea, where approximately six out of 10 people live in apartments or row houses, according to government data and police on Saturday. Earlier this week, a 50-year-old resident of a studio apartment [...]
GWANGJU, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Being employed as an apartment security guard is probably among the worst jobs to have in Korea, not because the work itself is particularly demanding, but because of the verbal, or sometimes even physical abuse that guards have to endure. In a recent survey by Gwangju’s Contingent Workers Support [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s largest flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co. said Tuesday that it has instructed its flight attendants to more actively consider the use of force, including tasers, during cases of in-flight violence. The move follows a widely publicized incident where a 35-year-old South Korean man went on a [...]
SEOUL, August 3 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a report published by the Women’s Human Rights Commission of Korea (WHRCK) on August 2, while the number of violence acts committed against women increased by 3.1 percent from 265,792 in 2014 to 274,226 in 2015, the increase in reported dating violence against women was ten times higher, [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) – As violence against medical staff increases in and outside of hospitals, the medical community has raised its voice to push for the legislation of rules reinforcing punishment against the crimes, in a move to prevent an escalation in these types of incidents. According to industry sources, there are two [...]