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Criminal justice: Jury trials in Korea
In continuing our discussion of criminal law in Korea, today we discuss a recent addition to the Korean judicial system: the jury trial. Before July 2012, all criminal trials in Korea were bench trials, in which the judge decides what is true. This contrasts with a jury trial system where the judge acts like a referee, making sure the two sides follow the law, and the jury of ordinary people decides who to believe.To qualify for a jury trial, the crime a defendant is charged with must carry a po
Expat Living June 24, 2014
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Give Norway’s beggars a break
Norway, one of the world’s richest nations, is about to ban begging in a move some see as a sign of rising anti-immigrant sentiment. Whatever the motivation, it’s the work of misguided people who want to hide what they can’t understand.A recent government-commissioned report says there are between 500 and 1,000 foreign beggars on the streets of Oslo. The city estimates it will spend 5 million kronor ($824,000) this year just cleaning up after them. Locals believe most of them are Roma, a group c
Viewpoints June 24, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Wider use of electronic tags
In the six years since Korea started fitting electronic tags on convicted sex offenders, the rate at which criminals reoffend has dropped, the Justice Ministry says.According to the ministry, around 15 percent of sex offenders committed similar crimes again between 2006 and 2008, but the rate sharply dropped to below 2 percent after the use of tracking devices was adopted in September 2008.Child kidnappers and murderers were added to the list of criminals subject to the measure in 2009 and 2010,
Social Affairs June 18, 2014
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U.S. seizes Benghazi suspect in deadly Libya attack
WASHINGTON (AP) ― U.S. special forces seized a “key leader” of the deadly Benghazi, Libya, attack and he is on his way to face trial in the U.S. for the fiery assault that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, the Obama administration announced Tuesday. It was the first breakthrough in the sudden overseas violence in 2012 that has become a festering political sore at home. President Barack Obama said the capture on Sunday of Ahmed Abu Khattala sends a clear message to the world t
World News June 18, 2014
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[Kim Seong-kon] ‘Korea’s 13’ and the future of Korean education
In the mesmerizing Hollywood film “Ocean’s 13” Daniel Ocean gathers his 13 deft partners to ruin the wicked capitalist Willy Bank on the opening night of his hotel-casino, appropriately named “The Bank.” The reason is simple; Rueben Tishkoff, one of Ocean’s partners-in-crime, was conned by his former business partner Bank, and Ocean wants to get revenge for Rueben. Thus Ocean and his partners conjure up two plans. One plan is to prevent The Bank from winning the prestigious Five-Diamond Award, a
Viewpoints June 17, 2014
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[Robert Reich] Punish corporate wrongdoers
General Motors has fired 15 employees after an internal investigation into the company's handling of defective ignition switches that lead to at least 13 fatalities.But the only way to stop lawbreaking at GM or any other big corporation is to prosecute the people who break the law. And so far, no one at GM has been prosecuted.“What GM did was break the law. ... They failed to meet their public safety obligations,” scolded Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx after imposing the largest possib
Viewpoints June 13, 2014
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Criminal justice in Korea: Interrogations and appointed attorneys
In our next two columns we would like to discuss parts of Korean law that we hope you don’t need to know much about: criminal law. Unfortunately, it is all too easy to wind up in a bad situation ― whether you are guilty or not ― and find yourself dealing with police and prosecutors in an adversarial setting. The beginning of criminal cases in Korea is a lot like their beginning in the U.S. and many other countries: One person reports a crime, and if the police deem it worthy of investigation, th
Expat Living June 10, 2014
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Frenchman ‘admits to’ Brussels shooting
PARIS (AFP) ― A Frenchman who spent over a year in Syria has claimed responsibility for last week’s deadly shooting at a Jewish Museum in Brussels in a video recording, prosecutors said on Sunday.Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, who was arrested by customs agents on Friday on arrival in the southern French city of Marseille, is believed to have recorded the claim in a 40-second video found in his possession along with a Kalashnikov and a handgun.Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said the “repeat offender” ex
World News June 2, 2014
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NSA leaker still doesn’t look like a hero
Accused National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden was handed a golden opportunity to justify himself Wednesday when he was asked by NBC’s Brian Williams whether the American public should view his unauthorized release of thousands of classified U.S. government documents to the media as a principled act of civil disobedience or as a betrayal of his country ― and he blew it.The interview, taped last week, took place at a hotel in Moscow, where Snowden fled last year in order to avoid prosecut
Viewpoints June 2, 2014
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Japan looks to foreign maids to get moms back to work
Noriko Hitotsumatsu, a bilingual research pharmacologist with a master’s from Cambridge University, considers herself lucky to have a part-time job in a Tokyo pharmacy after shelving her career to raise two daughters in one of the world’s most work-oriented countries. “I was determined to raise my children myself when they were small,” she said. “When they were older, I kept to part-time work so I could coach them through school entrance exams, while my husband worked around the clock,” she adde
World News May 19, 2014
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How to make death penalty less unfair
Capital punishment is unjust, immoral and prone to error, as most of the world’s developed nations have figured out. But the United States, unwilling to put aside a desire for revenge, continues to kill its own citizens; 32 states and the federal government still impose the death penalty. At the very least, they ought to perform that barbaric task as fairly and humanely as possible.A report released Wednesday by the Constitution Project, a bipartisan think tank that includes both death penalty a
Viewpoints May 12, 2014
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U.S. efforts may tip scales on campus rape
WASHINGTON ― Well, I guess if you can’t solve issues like immigration, or tax reform or how to make the Affordable Care Act work like it was envisioned or resolve stagnate growth, you can at least take on the problems of sex on campus ― the unwanted kind, of course, even though the chances of pulling that off may be slimmer than solving all the other problems we face.The ultimate solution may be a federally administered forced saltpeter program aimed at all male students but especially those who
Viewpoints May 8, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Key suspects revealed in deadly Sewol sinking
Behind the tragic ferry tale engulfing the country and its people in despair lies two key characters wanted as suspects for questioning over the sunken ship off the southwest coast.They are the owners of a company that owns Chonghaejin Marine Co., the owner and operator of the Sewol ferry, in which hundreds of passengers, mostly high school students, remain trapped and missing.They are brothers, surnamed Yoo, who have a combined 38.88 percent stake in I-One-I Holdings, a management consulting fi
Social Affairs April 21, 2014
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20 killed in attack on S. Sudan U.N. base
JUBA (AFP) ― At least 20 people were killed and another 70 injured by gunmen posing as peaceful protestors who stormed a U.N. base in South Sudan, the U.S. ambassador to the world body said.Samantha Power strongly condemned Thursday’s “brazen, inhuman attack on unarmed civilians” where 5,000 people are sheltering inside the base of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, in the war-ravaged town of Bor. The attackers used rocket-propelled grenades to breach the compound then fired on those she
World News April 18, 2014
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U.N. sees grim images of Syrian dead
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ― The bodies of the young men in the photographs are emaciated, their bones protruding. Starvation was only one form of torture they endured. Some bear the marks of strangulation. Others have vivid bruises and welts from being beaten. On Tuesday, the Security Council will meet privately to view projected slides of the dead, who offer mute testimony to the savagery of a Syrian civil war in which more than 150,000 have died. France, which is hosting the closed-door meeting, say
World News April 16, 2014
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Woman gets life in prison in stiletto heel slaying
HOUSTON (AP) -- A woman was sentenced to life in prison Friday for fatally stabbing her boyfriend with the stiletto heel of her shoe, striking him at least 25 times in the face and head.Ana Trujillo was convicted of murder Tuesday by the same jury for killing 59-year-old Alf Stefan Andersson, a native of Sweden who became a U.S. citizen, during an argument last June at his Houston condominium.Defense attorneys argued that Trujillo, 45, was defending herself from an attack by Andersson, who was a
International April 12, 2014
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New French prime minister forms government as challenges await
PARIS (AFP) ― France’s new Prime Minister Manuel Valls set about forming a new government on Tuesday tasked with the mammoth challenge of reviving a battered economy, as the EU warned Paris not to renege on its reform pledges.President Francois Hollande nominated the tough-talking interior minister to the post on Monday after the ruling Socialists suffered a drubbing at municipal polls, replacing Jean-Marc Ayrault, who had headed up a deeply unpopular government.“This is a trying, demanding, rou
World News April 2, 2014
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A legal story set inside the newsroom
Providence RagBy Bruce DeSilva(Forge)The difference between justice and the truth can be miles apart as well as diametrically opposed to journalism ethics as Bruce DeSilva succinctly shows in his third solid novel featuring Liam Mulligan, a Providence, R.I., reporter.“Providence Rag” is an unflinching look at how doing right thing can have dire reverberations. DeSilva’s other novels, including the Edgar-winning “Rogue Island,” have shown Mulligan secure in his career as an investigative reporter
Books March 27, 2014
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Woman freed after serving 32 years for 1981 killing
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― A 74-year-old California woman is free after serving 32 years of a life sentence for her role in a 1981 killing.Mary Virginia Jones was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery and sentenced to life without parole for a killing committed alongside boyfriend Mose Willis, who died while on death row.She always maintained that the abusive Willis forced her at gunpoint to help him rob and shoot two drug dealers, one of whom died. Law students at the University of S
World News March 26, 2014
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Iraqi bill to legalize child marriage criticized
BAGHDAD (AP) ― A contentious draft law being considered in Iraq could open the door to girls as young as 9 getting married and would require wives to submit to sex on their husband’s whim, provoking outrage from rights activists and many Iraqis who see it as a step backward for women’s rights. The measure, aimed at creating different laws for Iraq’s majority Shiite population, could further fray the country’s divisions amid some of the worst bloodshed since the sectarian fighting that nearly rip
World Business March 16, 2014
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