A Japanese spectator at the FINA World Championships has been barred from leaving the country following accusations he took illicit footage of women’s water polo players in a restricted area, according to police. Gwangju Gwangsan Police Station on Sunday booked the Japanese man, 37, on suspicion of violating laws on sex crimes. (Yonhap) While the suspect was scheduled to return to Japan on Mon...

Two tourists of French nationality have been booked without detention on suspicion of burglary, the police said Friday. According to Busan Jin Police Station, the French tourists are suspected of breaking and entering a cafe in Busan and stealing money from the cash register. (123rf) Police said the suspects, aged 25 and 23, broke into the cafe at 4:12 a.m. on June 23, and stole some 300,000 w...

The Coast Guard found a small wooden boat believed to be from North Korea near the eastern sea border Friday morning, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday the boat was found some 30 meters off the coast of Goseong, Gangwon Province. The town is situated about 20 kilometers away from the border with the North. (Yonhap) They also noted that nobody was aboard ...

Ministry of Unification Deputy Spokesperson Kim Eun-han said a media report on the “mass” arrival of North Korean defectors from Thailand was partially incorrect. News 1, a Seoul-based news agency, reported Friday morning that around 20 North Koreans were in government custody after arriving in the country on a Korean Air flight from Thailand on Thursday morning. (Yonhap) In a phone call with ...

A year and five months since the enactment of Death with Dignity Act, nearly 54,000 have decided to opt out of life-prolonging treatments, according to government data. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday the number of individuals who either withheld or withdrew from receiving life-prolonging treatment totaled 53,900 as of June 30. The end-of-life care legislation allowing terminal...

Police have sought an arrest warrant for a 60-year-old man on charges of murdering his wife and daughter, according to Masan Dongbu Police Station on Wednesday. Police said the man, identified only by his surname Lee, is accused of fatally stabbing his wife, 56, and daughter, 29, at their home in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, at around 8 a.m. Sunday. (Yonhap) Police were alerted to the ...

Actor Kang Ji-hwan was arrested Tuesday over suspected sexual assault. Gwangju Police Station said the actor was arrested without a warrant at around 10:50 p.m. at his home in Gwangju, a city southeast of Seoul in Gyeonggi Province. Kang was arrested Tuesday night on suspicions of raping a production staff. (Yonhap) According to police, Kang is suspected of raping a staff member of a productio...

Subway workers in Busan began an indefinite strike Wednesday at 5 a.m., but services during commuting hours will not be affected. State-run Busan Metro is required to keep at least 1,010 workers on duty even during a strike, per public service corporation laws. During daytime hours, the trains will run less frequently -- at 10- to 11-minute intervals, rather than the usual six minutes. (Yonhap...

A Korean man in police custody for assaulting his Vietnamese wife told reporters on Monday that he believes “other men are the same.” “Things began weighing on my mind since (my wife and I) speak different languages, and so we think differently. But I believe other men are the same,” he told the press, adding that he hopes such circumstances are taken into consideration. Police escort suspect t...

A 45-year-old murder suspect surnamed Park jumped to his death in Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province. According to the police, Park is suspected of stabbing a man, 57, to death at 2:17 p.m. Monday. Park was identified as a key suspect in the murder in the ensuing investigation. The victim was the CEO of a company where Park’s ex-wife worked. Park ran to a rooftop of an apartment in Okpo-dong, a n...

Since the dawn of the internet age, debate has continued over excessive time and energy spent consuming digital content and the difficulties in exercising control. In May, gaming disorder became one such contemporary health plight to be included in the World Health Organization’s disease classification. Less than a month after the adoption of gaming disorder into the International Classificatio...

A 36-year-old South Korean man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of assaulting his wife and abusing their toddler son, police said Sunday. According to police, the man is accused of assaulting his wife, 30, for over three hours starting Thursday at 9 p.m. in the presence of their child. The victim came to Korea from Vietnam as a marriage migrant. A video of the physical and verbal assault, wh...

One person was killed and three were injured in a building collapse Thursday afternoon in Seoul’s southern district of Seocho. Of the four known casualties, three were rescued and one was pronounced dead by the emergency medical team on the scene. Rescue work is underway at the scene of a building collapse in Seocho-gu, Seoul. (Kim Arin/The Korea Herald) According to fire authorities, the five-...

The Ministry of Health has asked the police to look into an online post by a doctor in which he claimed to have received sexual favors from a pharmaceutical company employee. The post was published on a website accessible only to certified public health doctors. Public health doctors are doctors working at state-run medical facilities as an alternative to military service. In the post, the writ...

Over 1,000 online advertisements for anti-pollution masks have been blocked and sales banned after the government found they included false or misleading information. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and the Korean Intellectual Property Office conducted an inspection of anti-pollution masks that were sold online in May and June, and found a total of 1,125 cases of misleading product labellin...