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Ex-prosecutor gets suspended jail term for molesting juniors

The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced a former senior prosecutor to a suspended jail term of eight months for molesting two women -- a junior prosecu...

September 13, 2018
Social affairs
Ex-minister questioned over 2008 mad cow report lawsuit

An inquiry team under the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office interrogated a former agriculture minister on his complaint filed against a 2008 MBC-TV report about mad cow disease. The inquiry team, upon rec...

September 13, 2018
Social affairs
Korean Air chairman grilled for using company money on home security

Police grilled Korean Air chairman Cho Yang-ho for 11 hours until early Thursday over allegations that he used company money to pay security staff at his residence. The chairman of Hanjin Group face...

September 13, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Judge-turned-lawyer under probe appeals to judges in email

A judge-turned-lawyer under investigation for taking tens of thousands of confidential documents from the Supreme Court was found to have emailed incumbent judges on Monday to appeal his case while t...

September 11, 2018
Social affairs
Ex-NIS official behind bars for allegedly fabricating spy charges

The prosecution detained a former senior official with the National Intelligence Service for allegedly taking part in fabricating evidence against a Chinese-Korean man, who was indicted in 2013 on ch...

September 11, 2018
Social affairs
[Herald Interview] Leaders of Singaporean women’s group visit Pyongyang

SINGAPORE -- Hundreds of foreign guests were in Pyongyang over the weekend to attend celebrations commemorating the 70th anniversary of North Korea’s founding on Sept. 9. Among them were leaders of ...

September 10, 2018
North Korea
Police arrest 15 for selling, injecting meth or growing weed

Police apprehended 15 people for growing cannabis on hills, selling or injecting methamphetamine, in Busan. Four people have been detained and 11 booked without detention for violation of the narcot...

September 10, 2018
Social affairs
Man dies after 19 bee stings

A 60-year-old man died after he was stung by bees 19 times Saturday afternoon. The man was found lying face down on a hill in the county of Hadong, South Gyeongsang Province, around 5:50 p.m. by a r...

September 10, 2018
Social affairs
Extended bus lane on Dongjak-daero opens Friday

Seoul City said Tuesday that an extended bus-only lane on Dongjak-daero will open at 4 a.m. Friday. The 2.8-kilometer extended segment of the bus-only lane from Bangbae Police Station to the hill of...

September 4, 2018
Social affairs
Less crime on Busan beaches this summer: police

Busan’s seven major beaches saw less crime this summer, including fewer sex offenses, compared with previous years. Busan police said Tuesday that the number of vacationers on Busan’s beaches droppe...

September 4, 2018
Social affairs
Two accused of violence at emergency rooms

The Incheon Michuholl Police Station said Tuesday that it had booked two people accused of threatening nurses and assaulting doctors at hospital emergency rooms. One man, 48, was booked without dete...

September 4, 2018
Social affairs
Man accused of assault, detained under ‘3-strikes’ law

Police arrested an alleged member of a criminal organization operating in Busan’s Yeonje district, saying he harassed and repeatedly extorted money from owners of local mom-and-pop stores over the la...

September 3, 2018
Social affairs
San Francisco high schools to get ‘comfort women’ books

A nongovernmental group said Monday it will distribute books on the history of the so-called “comfort women” and related issues later this month to 18 high schools in the San Francisco area. The San...

September 3, 2018
Education
Age of criminal responsibility to be lowered from 14 to 13

With an increasing number of juveniles committing violent crimes, the government is seeking to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 13 by the end of this year. The Education Ministry announce...

August 31, 2018
Social affairs
Car owner apologizes for tantrum over parking sticker

A woman in her 50s who blocked the entrance of an apartment parking lot with her car in a fit of anger over a parking sticker apologized after the incident was reported in the media and was met with ...

August 31, 2018
Social affairs

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