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28 dating violence cases a day: police data

On average, 28 cases of dating violence were reported to police daily between 2013 and 2017, police data showed on Thursday.

Investigations | 2018-10-04 16:10

Drug smuggling by travelers jumps

The amount of narcotics caught being smuggled into the country by travelers in the first half of this year was already three times more than the total detected for the whole of last year, data analysis by an opposition lawmaker showed Thursday.

Investigations | 2018-10-04 09:17

Corruption charges: 12-year jail term sought for Booyoung chairman

Prosecutors Wednesday sought a 12-year prison term and a fine of 7.3 billion won for Booyoung Group chairman Lee Joong-keun on charges of embezzlement and tax evasion, among other crimes.

Investigations | 2018-10-03 17:55

Lifer will get retrial for first time

A woman, serving a life sentence for murdering her father, will get a retrial, according to the top court, Wednesday. The Supreme Court decided, Friday, to grant a retrial for Kim Shin-hye, 41, who has been in prison for 18 years, after agreeing to her claim that she made a false confession due to coercive interrogation by police.

Investigations | 2018-10-03 17:08

Koreans attack two Yemenis on Jeju Island

Photos released by a Jeju-based newspaper show one Yemeni with a severely injured left eye while the other had a scratched forehead and left cheek. They received hospital treatment and are resting at their homes, police said.

Investigations | 2018-10-03 14:11

Two Koreans questioned for allegedly assaulting Yemenis

Toxic gas leaks at KAIST; no one injured

The accident happened at 11 a.m. at a lab in the school's department of materials science and engineering. Six graduate students were there. They detected a leak when they opened a valve linked to a chlorine gas cylinder and immediately evacuated to the building's roof.

Investigations | 2018-10-03 13:17

Teenage girl found dead at school in Seoul

A teenage student was found dead at an elementary school in Eunpyeong-gu, northern Seoul, with a presumed death note, police said Tuesday.

Investigations | 2018-10-02 16:09

Shinsegae's boutique hotel caught for smuggling, illegal employment

The L'Escape Hotel, the first stand-alone brand of Shinsegae Chosun Hotel, has been found to have imported goods and hired a foreign employee illegally. According to Shinsegae, Tuesday, the L'Escape imported 77 Spanish-made cocktail glasses to Korea without going through customs, to use them at its top-floor bar Marque d'Amour.

Investigations | 2018-10-02 15:55

Ex-top court head's car searched in judicial power abuse scandal

The prosecution searched a car of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae, Sunday, in its probe into the top court's abuse of power allegations. Investigators from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office searched Yang's vehicle, as well as residences and offices of former Supreme Court justices Ko Young-han, Park Byoung-dae and Cha Han-sung who worked under Yang.

Investigations | 2018-09-30 16:54

Suspect in 'water tank bones' murder found in Philippines

Police in the Philippines have confirmed the location of a key suspect in Hwaseong's “factory water tank” murder case. According to the Hwasung Seobu Police Station in Korea, Filipino police recently questioned the Filipino man, who allegedly killed his fellow countryman two years ago and dumped his bones in a factory's water purifying tank in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province.

Investigations | 2018-09-28 15:16

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