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Tue, October 22, 2019 | 13:21

Arrest warrant sought for ex-justice minister's wife

The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office requested a Seoul court to issue an arrest warrant for former Justice Minister Cho Kuk's wife, Chung Kyung-sim, a Donyang University professor, Monday, on 11 charges including obstruction of business, forgery, violation of the capital market law and destruction of evidence.

2019-10-21 16:43

Prosecution seeks to arrest wife of ex-justice minister on eleven charges

Prosecutors asked a Seoul court Monday to issue an arrest warrant for the wife of ex-Justice Minister Cho Kuk on eleven charges including obstruction of business and violation of the capital market law. The request came about two months since the prosecution started investigating Cho's family over allegations regarding the forgery of a college presidential citation, a dubious...

2019-10-21 13:58

Samsung scion's bribery retrial to start this week

The review of an appeals court verdict in Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong's bribery case involving impeached former president Park Geun-hye will start Friday. Lee spent a year behind bars for providing billions of won in bribes to ex-President and her confidante Choi Soon-sil. He was freed on a suspended sentence in February last year, after the appeals court concluded there was i...

2019-10-20 18:13

Prosecutors seek arrest warrants for college activists for breaking into US ambassador's residence

Prosecutors said Sunday they have requested a Seoul court to issue arrest warrants for seven progressive college students on charges of breaking into the U.S. ambassador's residence. Seventeen members of a progressive college student group used ladders to climb over the wall of the Habib House in Seoul on Friday afternoon. The residence was vacant at that time, as Ambassador ...

2019-10-20 09:44

Concern rises over sex offenders working as deliverymen

Concern is rising over a lack of regulations to ban convicted sex offenders from working as deliverymen or chauffeurs - two areas of employment that are flourishing with the development of mobile technology that allows easier access to the services. As such, calls for restrictions are rising as people working in these fields are given customers' personal information and meet ...

2019-10-18 19:03

Policeman arrested for housebreaking, attempted rape

Officials at Gwangjin Police Station in Seoul said Friday that a sergeant in his 30s who belonged to a riot squad unit based at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, was arrested Oct. 5 on suspicions of attempted rape and home invasion.

2019-10-18 17:03

Korean crime psychologist named one of BBC's 100 women of 2019

Lee Soo-jung, a renowned forensic psychologist, has been named on the BBC's list of the 100 most influential and inspirational women this year.

2019-10-18 15:38

Top court upholds suspended jail term for Lotte chief

The nation's top court upheld a suspended prison sentence for Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin, Thursday, over a massive bribery scandal that influenced the decision to remove former President Park Geun-hye from office.

2019-10-17 17:06

Top court upholds suspended jail term for Lotte chief

South Korea's top court on Thursday affirmed a lower court ruling that gave a suspended jail sentence to Lotte chief Shin Dong-bin in a massive graft scandal that rocked the country and led to the ouster of former President Park Geun-hye. Shin, who heads the country's fifth-largest conglomerate, was indicted for giving 7 billion won (US$6 million) in bribes to the former pres...

2019-10-17 15:41

Korea-based dark web child porn bust leads to 338 arrests worldwide

Law enforcement officials said on Wednesday they had arrested hundreds of people worldwide after knocking out a South Korea-based dark web child pornography site that sold gruesome videos for digital cash. Officials from the United States, Britain and South Korea described the network as one of the largest child pornography operations they had encountered to date. Called Welc...

2019-10-17 09:19

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