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2 defense units searched over illegitimate business order allegations

The National Office of Investigation under the National Police Agency / Courtesy of the Police AgencyPolice raided the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Defense Communication Command (DCC), Tuesday, in connection with allegations that an unqualified company won a contract to supply information modules to the military. The National Police Agency sent investigators to search the DIA office in Seoul's Yongsan district and the DCC office in Gwacheon, just south of the capital, for materials related to the allegations, officials said. Police are looking into suspicions that an unqualified company won an order from the military to supply information modules that enable information exchanges with a host control system. Headed by a former employee of the state-funded National Security Research Institute, the firm exclusively won the military contract for three consecutive years following its establishment in 2018, according to the officials.The DIA deals with defense intelligence, while the DCC is in charge of building and managing information networks for the military. (Yonhap)

Jun 14, 2022
2 defense units searched over illegitimate business order allegations

S. Korean volunteer fighter quizzed over unauthorized stay in Ukraine

Rhee Keun / Korea Times fileA South Korean volunteer fighter who recently returned from Ukraine has been questioned by police over possible violation of passport law for his unauthorized stay in the war-ridden country, officials said Monday. Rhee Keun, a Navy SEAL-turned-YouTuber, voluntarily appeared at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency last Friday and underwent questioning, according to officials with knowledge of the matter. Rhee has reportedly admitted to most of the charges. He returned home on May 27 after sustaining injuries in Ukraine, where he had spent the past three months, having joined the war as a volunteer fighter. Police had said they would investigate Rhee over passport law violation charges when he returns, as he traveled to the war-stricken country in defiance of the country's travel ban to Ukraine. South Korea has banned its nationals from traveling to all regions of Ukraine since mid-February amid safety concerns. Entering the country without approval is punishable by up to one year in prison or a fine of up to 10 million won ($7,763) under Korean law. Rhee is

Jun 13, 2022
S. Korean volunteer fighter quizzed over unauthorized stay in Ukraine

Asian constitutional courts to hold conference on death penalty

Constitutional Court of Korea in Seoul / Korea Times fileResearch officials affiliated with 18 members of the Association of Asian Constitutional Courts and Equivalent Institutions (AACC) will hold a videoconference this week to discuss issues of the right to life, such as the death penalty, the Constitutional Court of Korea (CCK) said Monday.The international conference to be organized by the AACC Secretariat for Research and Development will take place Wednesday and Thursday, according to the CCK, which is in charge of operating the AACC secretariat.The main theme of the conference is the right to life and participants will share each member country's experience and knowledge on the state's duty to protect life and how the right to life is guaranteed through the Constitution and constitutional court trials, the court said.In the first session, the death penalty and the use of physical force in the process of law enforcement will be discussed under the theme of the right to life and the state's public power. The second session will deal with abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide

Jun 13, 2022
Asian constitutional courts to hold conference on death penalty

Over 5,000 apprehended for allegedly violating anti-stalking law

gettyimagesbankMore than 5,000 people were apprehended for alleged stalking in the five months following Korea's first anti-stalking law going into force, police data showed Monday.A total of 5,248 people were detained, with 3,039 of them indicted, over the five months after the law took effect in October 2021, according to the data compiled by the National Police Agency.Of the indicted suspects, 129 were formally arrested.Under the anti-stalking law, stalkers can face up to three years in prison or a 30 million won ($23,300) fine for stalking or repeatedly harassing an individual by approaching, following or blocking them against their will.The law also stipulates that police can enforce emergency measures or temporary measures to physically separate stalkers from victims. The data showed that police carried out 1,764 emergency measures and 2,469 temporary measures in the cited period. (Yonhap)

Jun 13, 2022
Over 5,000 apprehended for allegedly violating anti-stalking law

Prosecution seeks arrest warrant for ex-Industry Minister Paik

Former Industry Minister Paik Un-gyu speaks to reporters as entering Daejeon District Court in Daejeon, June 7. YonhapProsecutors sought an arrest warrant Monday for former Industry Minister Paik Un-gyu over allegations that while in office he forced the heads of 13 energy-related state firms to step down.Paik, the former Moon Jae-in administration's first minister of trade, industry and energy, is under suspicion of forcing the resignation of heads of state-run energy companies who were appointed under the preceding Park Geun-hye government, shortly after he took office in 2017.Prosecutors questioned Paik last week on charges of abuse of power.As part of the investigation, prosecutors in May searched Paik's residence and his office, and the buildings of six energy-related state agencies affiliated with the ministry, and seized a computer and other materials.The then main opposition Liberty Korea Party, a predecessor of the now ruling People Power Party, lodged a criminal complaint against Paik, ex-Vice Industry Minister Lee In-ho and three other high-level ministry officials in 2019

Jun 13, 2022
Prosecution seeks arrest warrant for ex-Industry Minister Paik

4-yr prison term sought for child porn site operator for concealing criminal proceeds

Son Jong-woo leaves the Seoul Detention Center in this July 6, 2020, file photo, after serving an 18-month prison term and following a Seoul court rejecting a U.S. extradition request for him. Yonhap Prosecutors sought a four-year prison sentence Thursday for the operator of one of the world's largest child sexual abuse websites on charges of concealing proceeds from the crime.Son Jong-woo, 26, has been indicted on charges of hiding about 400 million won (US$318,700), which he raised from running the Welcome to Video site on the dark net from June 2015 to March 2018.Son was found to have laundered and cashed the digital money using cryptocurrency accounts and his father's bank account, and used about 5.6 million won for online gambling. He admitted all of the charges."Please consider that the proceeds were earned through a crime that sparked outrage across the world," the prosecution said during the hearing.The prosecution also demanded a fine of 5 million won.Son h

Jun 10, 2022
4-yr prison term sought for child porn site operator for concealing criminal proceeds

Liberal commentator Rhyu Si-min fined for defaming Justice Minister Han

Rhyu Si-min, a liberal commentator and former chairman of the Roh Moo-hyun Foundation, speaks to reporters before attending his sentencing hearing at the Seoul Western District Court, June 9. Yonhap Rhyu Si-min, a former health minister and an influential liberal commentator, was fined 5 million won ($4,000) by a court Thursday for defamatory comments made years ago about Minister of Justice Han Dong-hoon.The Seoul Western District Court handed out the monetary penalty after convicting Rhyu of defaming Han by making false remarks about him in public between 2019 and 2020 when the minister was serving as a senior prosecutor.Rhyu, who formerly headed a foundation memorializing the late former President Roh Moo-hyun, was indicted in May last year for alleging on his YouTube channel in December 2019 and in a media interview in July 2020 that a prosecution department led by Han at that time illegally accessed his personal bank account and that of the foundation sometime

Jun 9, 2022
Liberal commentator Rhyu Si-min fined for defaming Justice Minister Han

Arsonist responsible for devastating wildfire given 12-year prison term

A firefighting helicopter puts out fires near Gangneung, Gangwon Province, March 6, as a series of wildfires burned some 15,420 hectares of woodland. A court sentenced a 60-year-old man to 12 years in prison Thursday for starting the fires that left more than 4,000 hectares of woodland on the east coast devastated. Yonhap A court sentenced a 60-year-old man to 12 years in prison Thursday for starting a fire in March that left more than 4,000 hectares of woodland on the east coast devastated.The man, surnamed Lee, allegedly set fire to a forest in the east coastal city of Gangneung, 168 kilometers east of Seoul, in the early morning of March 5, as well as his home, empty houses and warehouses there. Driven by strong winds and a dry spell, the blaze spread rapidly, burning six houses and 1,455 hectares of woodland in Gangneung, as well as 74 houses and 2,735 hectares of forestland in the nearby city of Donghae. It remains one of the most devastating wildfires on recor

Jun 9, 2022
Arsonist responsible for devastating wildfire given 12-year prison term

8-year prison term finalized in drunken driving death of Taiwanese student

Friends of Tseng Yi-lin, a Taiwanese victim who was killed in a DUI accident in November 2020 while studying in Seoul, stage rally in front of the Seoul Central District Court in this Jan. 25, 2021 photo. Yonhap The Supreme Court finalized an eight-year prison term, Thursday, imposed on a man charged with causing a car accident while driving under the influence of alcohol that resulted in the death of a Taiwanese student in 2020.In a rehearing, the top court upheld a lower court's ruling that found the 52-year-old driver, only identified by his surname Kim, guilty of running Tseng Yi-lin over and killing her at a crosswalk in Seoul's Gangnam district, Nov. 6, 2020.Kim was initially sentenced to eight years in prison, despite the prosecution's request for a six-year jail term. His sentence was then upheld by a higher court.The ruling, however, was struck down by the Supreme Court earlier this year and sent back to a lower court for review, after the Constitutional Co

Jun 9, 2022
8-year prison term finalized in drunken driving death of Taiwanese student

Disgraced singer Seungri to be discharged from military following top court ruling

Former BIGBANG member Seungri / YonhapSeungri, the disgraced former member of K-pop boy band BIGBANG, will be discharged from the military later this week to serve a prison term in a civilian correctional facility for prostitution mediation and other offenses, military officials said Wednesday.His release from the Army, set for Thursday, comes after the Supreme Court confirmed his one-and-a-half year prison term last month in a burgeoning scandal that roiled the K-pop industry in 2019.Seungri, whose real name is Lee Seung-hyun, is currently in a military prison in Icheon, 80 kilometers south of Seoul. Upon the discharge, he will be transferred to a nearby civilian facility in Yeoju, 105 kilometers south of the capital, the officials said.Lee's military service was initially set to end in September last year. But his discharge was put on hold pending the judicial proceedings.His prison term is set to end in February next year. (Yonhap)

Jun 8, 2022
Disgraced singer Seungri to be discharged from military following top court ruling
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