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Police, Justice Ministry to crack down on massage parlors, adult entertainment illegally hiring foreign nationals
The government will inspect massage parlors and adult entertainment establishments throughout South Korea to root out the hiring of foreign nationals who live and work here illegally.The investigation, announced Sunday by the National Policy Agency and the Ministry of Justice, will be carried out from Feb. 18 to March 31. (Yonhap)The agencies said they would take countermeasures against the businesses because they corrupt public morals and encourage people to stay in the country illegally.If pol
Social Affairs Jan. 20, 2019
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Ex-top court chief grilled for third time
Prosecutors were expected to decide whether to issue a warrant to detain former Supreme Court chief justice Yang Sung-tae after their third interrogatory session with him Tuesday over his alleged involvement in a power abuse scandal.Yang was summoned to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office Tuesday morning for more questioning and to go over records of their cross examination. Former Supreme Court chief justice Yang Sung-tae (Yonhap)Prosecutors suspect that the National Court Administra
Social Affairs Jan. 15, 2019
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Govt takes measures to combat sexual abuse in sports
The government plans to take strong measures to root out sexual abuse in sports, as Olympic short track champion Shim Suk-hee’s claim of sexual assault by her former coach has triggered the #MeToo movement in the sports community.After Shim publicly accused Cho Jae-beom of sexual assault on Tuesday, two more skaters came forward accusing their respective coaches of sexual abuse on Wednesday. According to the Young Skaters Asociation, which has investigated sexual abuse in Korea’s skating communi
Social Affairs Jan. 11, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] Inquisitors and gravediggers in society
When I first read Takano Kazuaki’s thriller “Gravedigger,” I was enthralled by the breathtaking speed of this mesmerizing novel. It tells the story of a wrongfully accused man named Yagami who has to flee from police and a group of sinister men. As an organ donor, Yagami has to safely arrive at a hospital in south Tokyo as soon as possible in order to save a child who is suffering from leukemia. To accomplish this, he has to cross Tokyo from north to south at full speed against all odds. Recentl
Viewpoints Dec. 25, 2018
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[Noah Smith] Why Japan needs criminal-justice reform
Japan’s police recently threw the chairman of Nissan Motor Co. into a jail cell. Carlos Ghosn, a Brazilian-born executive with French and Lebanese citizenship, has been accused of falsifying financial reports and hiding $44 million of personal income.Ghosn is unlikely to receive anything resembling justice. Officially, under Japanese law, a suspect can be held and questioned for 23 days without being charged. During this time he can be interrogated for as long as eight hours a day with no lawyer
Viewpoints Dec. 16, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Korea gives 2 Yemeni asylum seekers refugee status
The immigration office on the southern island of Jeju decided Friday to grant refugee status to two Yemeni asylum seekers, the first move of its kind since South Korea began to grapple with their inflow early this year. The immigration office also gave 50 other applicants humanitarian stay permits while denying refugee requests of 22 applicants, according to the Ministry of Justice. (Yonhap)Those who obtained refugee status and stay permits are allowed to leave the island for other parts of the
Social Affairs Dec. 14, 2018
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[Tyler Cowen] How Meng Wanzhou’s arrest might backfire
I am concerned by Canada’s recent arrest and possible extradition of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou. Meng was traveling in Canada, switching planes using a Chinese passport, when she was taken into custody. If sent to the US, she would face charges of trying to defraud US financial institutions, each carrying a maximum sentence of 30 years. And because of potential flight risk, she is not an obvious candidate for bail. It is quite possible that her life as she knew it simply has end
Viewpoints Dec. 12, 2018
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Trump praises witness who refuses to testify against him
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump praised a key witness in the Russia investigation Monday for having the “guts” not to testify against him, and said his former lawyer — who cut a deal with prosecutors — should head straight to prison.In a pair of politically charged tweets, Trump made clear that he is closely watching those who turn on him in the special counsel’s probe, which has ensnared some of the president’s closest advisers. So far, five people in Trump’s orbit have pleaded guilty
World News Dec. 4, 2018
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[Shannon O’Neil] Latin America’s new populism isn’t about economy
A year ago, Latin American nations and their bevy of pragmatic, market-friendly, middle-of-the-road presidents stood out from some of their OECD counterparts. Eight presidential races later, the region looks less exceptional. Populism has returned to its historic home. Yet this time injustice, not economic class, turned voters against the political establishment, elevating outsiders who have threatened to undermine democratic norms.Democracy’s supporters shouldn’t yet despair, as many of the reg
Viewpoints Dec. 3, 2018
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Prosecutors seek warrants for former top court justices, first in Korean history
The prosecution on Monday filed for arrest warrants for former top court justices over their suspected involvement in a massive judiciary power abuse case. It is the first time in Korean history that arrest warrants have been requested for former Supreme Court justices. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said it submitted the request early Monday for former Supreme Court Justices Park Byong-dae and Ko Young-han over their alleged abuse of power. They are suspected of colluding with f
Politics Dec. 3, 2018
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Stiffer measures against domestic violence to be introduced next year
Under proposed measures to be introduced next year, domestic violence offenders can be arrested at the scene of the crime and the violation of a restraining order could result in a prison sentence, the government said Tuesday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and the National Police Agency jointly proposed stronger measures to combat domestic violence during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. (Yonhap)The move follows a high-
Social Affairs Nov. 27, 2018
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Home 'most dangerous place' for women, UN study shows
More than half the women who were murdered worldwide last year were killed by their partners or family members, making home "the most dangerous place for a woman," a new UN study said Sunday.In statistics released on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime calculated that of a total 87,000 female homicide cases worldwide in 2017, some 50,000 –- or 58 percent -– were committed by the victims' intimate partners or family mem
World News Nov. 26, 2018
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Saudi king backs son amid furore over Khashoggi murder
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) -- Saudi King Salman stood by the crown prince and heaped praise on the judiciary Monday, in his first public remarks since critic Jamal Khashoggi's murder tipped the country into one of its worst crises.The public prosecutor last week exonerated Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the king's son, of involvement in the murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, but the CIA reportedly concluded he had ordered the assassination.The prosecutor called for the de
World News Nov. 20, 2018
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Justice Ministry finds murder suspect not mentally unfit
The Ministry of Justice said Thursday it has concluded that the suspect in a recent murder at a PC parlor in western Seoul is not mentally ill or unfit and will be prosecuted accordingly. Local law enforcement had placed the suspect, Kim Seong-soo, under a psychiatric evaluation after his parents submitted Kim's medical history of taking pills to treat depression. (Yonhap)Kim, 29, is suspected of stabbing a 21-year-old man to death in an Internet cafe in Seoul's Gangseo ward, on Oct. 14. Kim ha
Social Affairs Nov. 15, 2018
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Jeff Sessions pushed out after a year of attacks from Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out Wednesday after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump, who inserted in his place a Republican Party loyalist with authority to oversee the remainder of the special counsel’s Russia investigation.The move has potentially ominous implications for special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, given that the new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, until now Sessions’ chief of staff, ha
World News Nov. 8, 2018
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Stalking crimes rise with lax punishment
A man called the 112 emergency police hotline early Friday, asking police to check on the girlfriend he could not reach, saying she may have killed herself.When the officers called the woman, however, she told them that she was not home and that she never tried to kill herself. She said she had broken up with the man two days prior.When officers asked the man what was going on, he answered, “I just wanted to see her because she wouldn’t take my calls. I thought the police might help open the doo
Social Affairs Nov. 5, 2018
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[Robert Mahoney] Stop killing the messenger
What does it cost to silence a muckraking reporter? In the Philippines in 2011, officials needed just $250 to buy the services of a journalist-slaying gunman. In Slovakia, Jan Kuciak and his fiancee were killed in February for about $80,000.For corrupt politicians and crime bosses, neither sum is significant. The cost to democracy, however, is immeasurable.Every year, more journalists are murdered because of their reporting than die in war zones. Since 1992, when the Committee to Protect Journal
Viewpoints Oct. 30, 2018
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Saudi crown prince calls Khashoggi killing a ‘heinous’ crime
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — In a fiery and unwavering appearance Wednesday at an investment forum, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince called the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi “heinous” and “painful to all Saudis,” before warning anyone against trying to “manipulate” the crisis and drive a wedge between the kingdom and Turkey.Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was joined onstage by two Arab allies as he made his first extensive public remarks about the killing that has sparked widespread condemnat
World News Oct. 25, 2018
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‘7 in 10 Koreans oppose death penalty’
The majority of South Koreans agree that the death penalty should be abolished and replaced with alternative forms of punishment, the state-run human rights body announced Wednesday. According to data from the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, 7 out of 10 Koreans are against retaining capital punishment on the condition that serious punitive measures are put in place to deter crime.(Yonhap)The commission released the data at a conference held to mark World Day Against the Death Penalty.
Social Affairs Oct. 11, 2018
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Office of ex-Constitutional Court justice nominee raided over illegal stock-trading allegations
Prosecutors raided the office of a former Constitutional Court justice nominee who is suspected of using private information to profit from stock investments and make hundreds of millions of won, investigators said Thursday. A team of investigators at the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office that specializes in stock-market crime cases said it had searched the office of Lee You-jung, a lawyer at One Law Partners in Seoul’s Gangnam area, as well as three other places, Monday.Lee is suspect
Politics Oct. 11, 2018
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