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Fri, March 24, 2023 | 11:33
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NATIONALJuvenile, foreign drug offenders triple in Korea
한국 내 청소년, 외국인 마약사범 3배 증가
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A Seoul Metropolitan Police official puts seized drugs in order at the office's parking lot in this file photo taken in October 2018. Korea Times file2018년 10월에 촬영된 사진에서 서울교통공사 경찰이 사무실 주차장에서 압수한 마약을 순서대로 놓고 있다. 코리아타임스 자료사진
A Seoul Metropolitan Police official puts seized drugs in order at the office's parking lot in this file photo taken in October 2018. Korea Times file
2018년 10월에 촬영된 사진에서 서울교통공사 경찰이 사무실 주차장에서 압수한 마약을 순서대로 놓고 있다. 코리아타임스 자료사진

By Lee Hae-rin


The number of drug offenders aged 30 or under has increased threefold in five years, as Korea's arrests for narcotic crimes hit an all-time high last year, according to the latest police report.
최신 경찰 발표에 따르면 지난해 마약 사범 수가 역대 최다를 기록하면서 30세 이하 마약 사범 숫자가 3배 증가했다.


The number of foreign nationals arrested for illegally possessing, trafficking and selling drugs also tripled, mainly from large groups of people doing drugs at industrial complexes.
주로 공업 단지에서의 공동 투약 때문에 마약 불법 소지•유통•판매로 검거된 외국인 수 역시 3배 가량 증가했다.


The Korean National Police Agency's Detective Bureau at the National Office of Investigation announced Sunday that 5,702 people were arrested during the police's special control on drug crimes, from August to December last year.
일요일(29일) 경찰청 국가수사본부 형사국에 따르면 지난해 8월부터 12월까지 실시한 집중 단속기간에 5702명이 검거됐다.


A total of 12,387 people were arrested for drug-related crimes last year ― a record high, and a 16.6 percent raise from the previous year's 10,626.
재작년 1만626명 대비 16.6% 증가한 1만2387명이 지난해 마약류 범죄로 검거돼 역대 최다를 기록했다.


The increase was visible, especially among the younger people who are digitally competent with the internet, smartphones and social media.
이러한 증가는 인터넷, 스마트폰, 소셜미디어 등의 디지털에 익숙한 젊은층에서 특히 두드러졌다.


About one out of three, or 4,203 drug offenders arrested last year was in their 20s. The figure is a three-fold jump from 1,392 in 2018, and a 19.8-percent increase from the previous year's 3,507. Teenage drug offenders also tripled. Last year 294 people were arrested, which is a near-threefold increase from 2018's 104 people. Some of the offenders are as young as 14, the police said.
지난해 검거된 마약류 사범의 3분의 1, 측 4203명은 20대였다. 이는 2018년 1392명에서 3배 증가한 수치며 지난해 2507명에서는 19.8% 증가한 수치다. 10대 마약 사범 수도 3배 증가했다. 지난해 10대 마약 사범 294명이 검거됐는데 2018년의 104명에서 거의 3배 증가한 수치다. 경찰에 따르면 마약 사범 중에는 14세도 있었다.


Last year, the number of drug offenders who were arrested for trafficking drugs via the internet and social media during the police's five-month operation was 1,495, which is a 39.5-percent increase from the same period of the previous year. The number of offenders using the dark web and cryptocurrency for drug sales increased by 19 percent.
지난해 5개월 동안 진행된 단속 기간에 인터넷과 소셜미디어를 통한 마약 유통으로 검거된 마약 사범 수는 1495명으로 지난해 동기간 대비 39.5% 증가했다. 마약 판매를 위해 다크웹과 가상자산을 이용한 마약 사범 수는 19% 증가했다.

KEY WORDS
■ narcotic 마약
■ all-time 사상 (최고[최저]의)
■ traffick 불법 거래를 하다, 밀거래하다
■ triple 3배가 되다, 3배로 만들다
■ arrest 체포하다
■ competent 능숙한
■ cryptocurrency 암호화폐, 가상화폐

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