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Woman admits to burying undocumented baby's body on hill in Busan

Busan Metropolitan Police Agency building / Korea Times fileAn additional unregistered baby is believed to have been secretly buried on a hill in the southeastern city of Busan, police said Tuesday, the latest in a string of undocumented "ghost baby" abuse cases.The baby's mother told police the baby was born in February 2015 but died, and she abandoned the body on a hill near her home in Busan, 320 kilometers southeast of Seoul, the police said.It was unclear why the baby died and when.Should her statement be true, she will not be punished because the seven-year statute of limitations for body abandonment has already expired.The police said they will try to dig up the body but foresee difficulties as the landscape around the site where the mother said she buried the body has undergone some changes."We will question her as to how the baby died while securing more clues on the burial site before conducting an exhumation," an official said.It was the latest in a series of shocking child abuse cases revealed under a nationwide campaign to check the well-being of more than 2,000 undocume

Jul 4, 2023
Woman admits to burying undocumented baby's body on hill in Busan

Police investigating 193 unregistered baby cases; 11 confirmed dead

A search is under way on a hill in Geoje to locate the body of a baby boy, who was allegedly murdered and buried by his mother, in this July 3 photo provided by the police. YonhapThe National Police Agency is investigating 193 cases of babies not registered at birth, officials said Tuesday, amid a string of child abuse cases involving such undocumented babies, including the shocking discovery of two dead newborns being kept in a refrigerator.Police have been expanding its probe into cases of "ghost babies" who have medical records of birth but no official birth registration, as the government launched a nationwide campaign to check the well-being of more than 2,000 unregistered babies.The campaign came after a mother was apprehended last month on charges of strangling her two newborns, in 2018 and 2019, respectively, and secretly keeping their bodies in a refrigerator in her apartment in Suwon, 30 kilometers south of Seoul.Officials said the police agency has received 209 ghost baby cases so far, and 193 of them are currently under investigation. Of them, 20 have been located, and an

Jul 4, 2023
Police investigating 193 unregistered baby cases; 11 confirmed dead

Prosecutors decide not to indict actress Son Sook on graft charges

Actress Son Sook / YonhapProsecutors have decided not to indict veteran actress and former Environment Minister Son Sook on charges of illegally receiving a golf club as a gift from a golf club distributor while serving in a public position, sources said Monday.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office made the decision Friday to suspend indictment of Son, 79, on the graft charge in consideration of her advanced age as well as the fact that she had no previous criminal record and the amount was not so big, according to the sources.Son was previously referred to prosecutors on charges of receiving a golf club worth more than 1 million won ($765) from a golf club distributor between 2018 and 2021.Son, a stage and screen actress by occupation, served as an environment minister in 1999, and was serving in a public institution at the time of the alleged graft.By law, public officials are prohibited from taking a gift worth 1 million won.Prosecutors suspend indictment of a suspect in consideration of various circumstances, including health condition, even though charges against the sus

Jul 3, 2023
Prosecutors decide not to indict actress Son Sook on graft charges

Woman's body found in Seokchon Lake

Seokchon Lake in Songpa district, Seoul / YonhapA woman's body was found in Seokchon Lake in southeastern Seoul on Monday, police said.An employee at the Lotte World theme park found the body at the western part of the lake, near the theme park's outdoor entrance, in Seoul's Songpa district at 8:18 a.m., according to Lotte World and fire authorities.The fire authorities handed over the body to the police at 8:40 a.m.While no signs of foul play were found, the police plan to verify the woman's identity through an autopsy and investigate the exact cause of death. (Yonhap)

Jul 3, 2023
Woman's body found in Seokchon Lake

Court hearing held on arrest warrant sought for ex-aide to former DPK leader Song

Park Yong-soo, center, a former aide to former Democratic Party of Korea leader Song Young-gil, attends a hearing at the Seoul Central District Office, Monday. YonhapA Seoul court held a hearing Monday to decide whether to issue a warrant to arrest a former aide to Song Young-gil, a former leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), in connection with a cash-for-vote scandal involving the party's 2021 leadership election.The scandal centers on allegations that Song's campaign distributed cash envelopes totaling 94 million won ($71,597) to as many as 20 DPK lawmakers and other party members in the runup to the party's leadership election in May 2021, which he ultimately won.Park Yong-soo, a former aide in charge of fund management for Song's campaign at the time of the election, was accused of involvement in the distribution of 67.5 million won of the total in collusion with other campaign officials to help get Song elected.Park allegedly received 50 million won from a businessman in April 2021 and delivered 60 million won to former DPK lawmaker Youn Kwan-suk, who t

Jul 3, 2023
Court hearing held on arrest warrant sought for ex-aide to former DPK leader Song

Top court orders punishment of colonel for slapping solider on US military base

US Forces headquarters at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, about 70 kilometers south of Seoul, is seen in this photo from US Forces Korea`s Facebook account. YonhapThe Supreme Court has struck down a lower court's dismissal of charges brought against a former Army colonel for slapping a rank-and-file soldier in the face for not giving him a salute on a U.S. military base in 2018.The former officer was charged with violence after he lightly slapped the soldier's face five to eight times on the U.S. military base in Pyeongtaek, 60 kilometers south of Seoul, for failing to salute him in March 2018, when he served as head of the Eighth U.S. Army Republic of Korea Army Support Group.The victim expressed the desire that he did not want the colonel to be punished, but the officer was still indicted because unlike the civilian criminal code, the Military Criminal Act stipulates punishment for acts of violence that happen on military bases, facilities or aircraft regardless of a victim's objection.In the first trial, he was found guilty, but an appeals court dismissed his indictment by agreeing

Jul 3, 2023
Top court orders punishment of colonel for slapping solider on US military base

Additional $443 mil. in gov't funds illegally used for renewable energy under Moon gov't

Park Ku-yeon, the first deputy chief of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, speaks during a press briefing, July 3. YonhapGovernment funds amounting to 582.4 billion won ($443 million) were additionally found to have been illegally or wrongfully used in renewable energy projects, including the installation of solar panels, during the previous Moon Jae-in administration, officials said Monday.The office has set up a task force to look into corruption allegations surrounding the spending of subsidies as part of the promotion of renewable energy, which was one of the key agenda items of the Moon administration.The extensive investigation came after a previous sample investigation, which was limited to a specific region, and announced last September. At the time, 2,267 illegal fund management cases across 12 local governments were found, amounting to 261.6 billion won in misused government funds.The results of both investigations showed that 7,626 irregularities over the entire five-year period of the previous administration had resulted in 844 billion won of government funds

Jul 3, 2023
Additional $443 mil. in gov't funds illegally used for renewable energy under Moon gov't

Couple confesses to strangling newborn to death in Geoje, police say

This photo provided by the Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency shows police personnel searching a mountain for the body of a newborn baby. A couple was arrested on July 2, on charges of strangling their newborn baby to death and abandoning his body in the southern city of Geoje. YonhapA couple was arrested Sunday on charges of strangling their newborn baby to death and abandoning his body in the southern city of Geoje, police said, the latest in a series of child abuse cases involving unregistered babies.A woman in her 30s and her partner in his 20s were charged with strangling the baby to death and burying his body on a mountain after the child died in their home in Geoje, 331 kilometers south of Seoul, five days after he was born in September last year. The two had initially claimed they found the baby dead on the morning of Sept. 9 and buried his body on a mountain the following day, but later confessed that they killed him and abandoned the body in a stream, officials said.It was the latest in a series of shocking child abuse cases revealed after the government launched an investi

Jul 2, 2023
Couple confesses to strangling newborn to death in Geoje, police say

Ex-NIS chief Park Jie-won questioned over alleged illicit hiring charges

Former National Intelligence Service head Park Jie-won arrives at the National Police Agency in Seoul for questioning on suspicions of illegally meddling in the organization's hiring decisions, July 1. YonhapFormer National Intelligence Service (NIS) chief Park Jie-won was questioned by police Saturday over charges he had illegally meddled in the organization's hiring decisions.The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said it summoned Park to question his allegedly illicit role in hiring people close to him for an NIS-affiliated agency.Last month, another ex-NIS chief, Suh Hoon, was interrogated by police over the same charges.Suh served as NIS director from 2017-20, and Park from 2020-22, both under the previous Moon Jae-in administration.The spy agency reportedly learned of such hiring in a recent internal inspection of personnel affairs during the Moon administration and requested a police investigation.Suh, who also worked as the national security adviser for Moon, was arrested in December last year over alleged irregularities surrounding the 2020 death of a South Korean fisheries of

Jul 1, 2023
Ex-NIS chief Park Jie-won questioned over alleged illicit hiring charges

Woman released from custody for alleged child abuse, body abandonment

Police said a mother was taken into custody Saturday on suspicion of abusing her baby resulting in his death and then abandoning the body. Korea Times fileA woman taken into custody on suspicion of abusing her baby to death and abandoning his body years ago was released Saturday, police said.The suspect, in her 50s, had been arrested on charges of abandoning the baby's body after he died suddenly due to an illness in 2015, according to the Gwacheon Police Agency. Prosecutors, however, disapproved of the police request for an emergency arrest of the suspect, citing the possibility that the statute of limitations for her alleged crime had expired.She told police that the baby had Down syndrome, and she buried his body at a family gravesite.Police launched the probe into the case upon receiving a report from the municipal government of Gwacheon, just south of Seoul, about his whereabouts. Other details of the incident have yet to be disclosed.The government is conducting an extensive probe into some 2,000 children without birth registrations nationwide after a mother was arrested earlie

Jul 1, 2023
Woman released from custody for alleged child abuse, body abandonment
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