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Former YG head grilled again for gambling charges

Yang Hyun-suk, after being questioned at Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's Intellectual Crime Investigation Team on Sept. 30 for allegations of gambling in overseas and receiving prostitution, speaks to journalists as he leaves the police agency in Jungnang District, northern Seoul. YonhapYang Hyun-suk, the scandal-ridden former CEO of YG Entertainment, was summoned by police for a second time Tuesday and underwent questioning until shortly after midnight about suspicions he had habitually gambled while abroad and committed foreign exchange law violations.Yang Hyun-suk, an idol-turned-K-pop guru who once led one of the biggest K-pop management firms, left the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's Intellectual Crime Investigation Team in northern Seoul around 12:10 a.m. Wednesday, 14 hours after he was summoned there as a criminal suspect.The 49-year-old Yang was previously grilled by the same police team in late August about allegations that he, together with Seungri, a former member of the K-pop boy band BIGBANG, regularly gambled at hotel casinos in Las Vegas and violated foreign exc

Oct 2, 2019
Former YG head grilled again for gambling charges

Yoon abolishes prosecution's special investigation units

By Kim Hyun-binProsecutor-General Yoon Seok-youl announced plans Tuesday to abolish special investigation units in all prosecution offices nationwide, excluding those at three key offices, as part of reform measures. The move comes a day after President Moon Jae-in sent a direct order to him to initiate major prosecutorial reforms to increase public trust in the organization.Moon's order followed a street rally Saturday organized to criticize the prosecution for “unfair investigation practices” which is allegedly shown in its ongoing probe into allegations of corruption against Justice Minister Cho Kuk and his family. Prosecutor-General Yoon Seok-youlAccording to the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, Yoon ordered the immediate abolishment of the units except for three including one at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office.The special units were formed to investigate high-profile cases such as politicians' influence-peddling, corrupt ties between politics and business, and large-scale financial scams.The unit at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office is current

Oct 1, 2019By Kim Hyun-bin
Yoon abolishes prosecution's special investigation units

Suspect caught for unprovoked assault in public bathroom

By Bahk Eun-jiPolice apprehended a man Tuesday for allegedly launching an unprovoked assault on a woman in a public restroom.A man was arrested for allegedly attacked a woman at a public restroom in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province. Korea Times fileAccording to Gyeonggi Ilsan Dongbu Police Station, the man attacked the 30-year-old woman, a total stranger to him, in the restroom of a commercial building in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, around 1:30 a.m. Sept. 22. He allegedly blocked her from exiting a restroom stall and hit her in the face and head a number of times, before fleeing. The woman was visiting a singing room there with her husband. Although the woman cried for help, other people couldn't hear her because of noise from the karaoke machines, according to police. Police said the woman has been hospitalized with injuries that require over three weeks to recover. She is also receiving psychological therapy. Through surveillance footage of the building, police apprehended the suspect who was stationed at a nearby military unit. They also obtained a cap which the suspect dropped at the sit

Oct 1, 2019By Bahk Eun-ji
Suspect caught for unprovoked assault in public bathroom

Daughter of ex-Herald Corp. chief caught smuggling drugs

A daughter of Hong Jung-wook leaves detention center in Michuhol, Incheon, Monday, after she has been apprehended for attempting to smuggle various illegal drugs, last Friday. YonhapBy Kim Jae-heunA daughter of Hong Jung-wook, a former chairman of Herald Corp. and an ex-lawmaker of the Grand National Party, the precursor of the Liberty Korea Party, has been caught smuggling various illegal drugs.According to the Incheon District Prosecutors' Office, Monday, the customs authority at Incheon International Airport apprehended the 19-year-old with marijuana, LSD and Adderall in her pockets and luggage, at around 5:40 p.m. last Friday.She was returning to Korea from Honolulu in Hawaii. The prosecution said it would investigate whether she was involved in other drug-related crimes. It requested an arrest warrant but a local court rejected it, saying she was unlikely to flee. The junior Hong, born in 2000 in the United States, entered a university there this year. The senior Hong, 49, is also a graduate of the school. He was a lawmaker of the Grand National Party from 2008 to 2012. He heade

Sep 30, 2019By Kim Jae-heun
Daughter of ex-Herald Corp. chief caught smuggling drugs

Man arrested for allegedly beating 5-year-old stepson to death

Reporters ask a murder suspect questions as he leave the police station in Michuhol-gu, Incheon, Sunday, for interrogation at the Incheon District Court. / YonhapBy Kim Jae-heunA 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of beating his five-year-old stepson to death, according to police. The alleged murder took place only a month after the boy was brought home from a child protection center, where he had stayed following the stepfather's beating and abuse two years earlier.The man allegedly tied the stepson's hands and feet with cables and beat him for 25 hours at his home in Incheon from Wednesday to Thursday, using a meter-long wooden sword, according to Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency, Sunday.He reported to police on Thursday evening that the boy had collapsed and was not breathing. When the police and rescue officers arrived, the boy was unconscious and had no pulse. They found bruises all over his body. An autopsy conducted by the National Forensic Service confirmed that the boy had died from an abdominal injury. The man told police that he assaulted his son as punishmen

Sep 29, 2019By Kim Jae-heun
Man arrested for allegedly beating 5-year-old stepson to death

Justice minister's wife faces questioning over alleged corruption this week

Justice Minister Cho Kuk, in casual outfit, walks toward his apartment in Bangbae-dong, southern Seoul, Sunday. Prosecutors are expected to summon his wife, Chung Kyung-shim, this week to question over alleged illegal acts involving Cho and his family members. YonhapProsecutors are expected to summon the wife of Justice Minister Cho Kuk this week as part of their probe into allegations over her role in relatives' investment in a private equity fund, a source said Sunday. Cho, who was appointed on Sept. 9 with the mission of reforming the prosecution, has been at the center of an intense political battle due to allegations of corruption involving his family, including his wife's alleged forgery of a school award and the investment in the fund that were suspected of dubious operations.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office has been in discussions with representatives of the wife, Chung Kyung-shim, over when to question Chung and she is likely to show up at the prosecutors' office this week, according to the source. Chung, a university professor, has been already indicted on cha

Sep 29, 2019
Justice minister's wife faces questioning over alleged corruption this week
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Prosecutors search police agency over collusion in Burning Sun scandal

Korea Times file By Lee Suh-yoon Prosecutors searched the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) headquarters, Friday, looking for evidence to verify allegations of cozy ties between the police and Burning Sun nightclub.Investigators from the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office said they confiscated computer hard drives and files from the office of a senior superintendent, identified only by his surname Yoon.Yoon is suspected of tipping off nightclub operators ― including disgraced former K-pop star Seungri ― about police activities or just watching their backs allowing drug use, rape and prostitution to continue at the club.Since January, the Burning Sun scandal has grown into a full-fledged expose of drugs, sexual assault, voyeur video crimes and corruption rampant in the nightlife industry.Despite the evidence, a three-month police investigation concluded in May that there were no suspicious ties between officers and nightlife businesses linked to illegal se

Sep 27, 2019
Prosecutors search police agency over collusion in Burning Sun scandal

Korea to open comprehensive relief center dedicated to sexual crime victims

The government will open a state body to help sexual crime victims. GettyimagesbankSouth Korea will open a comprehensive state body to assist victims of sexual crime in a bid to help them with the process of notifying police, according to the gender ministry on Friday.The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family reported the plan to a meeting of government ministers in charge of social affairs, held earlier in the day. Amid a series of "Me Too" revelations last year, the government set up relief centers for each occupational sector so that sexual crime victims could more quickly report their grievances to police. Since then, the government has built on the measures to come up with a more effective government body to deal with sexual crime cases.Under the upgraded plan, the new center, tentatively named "assistance center for eradication of sexual harassment and violence," will serve sexual crime victims from all walks of life, providing a range of services, from counseling through police notification to other protection measures through and after legal action is taken, according to the

Sep 27, 2019
Korea to open comprehensive relief center dedicated to sexual crime victims

Police begin probe into professor over remarks on wartime sexual slavery

Lew Seok-choon / YonhapPolice have launched an investigation of a conservative professor who allegedly called Korean victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery "prostitutes" during a school lecture, a Seoul prosecution official said Friday. A civic group filed a complaint with the prosecution Monday against Lew Seok-choon, a sociology professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, on charges including libel, sexual harassment and spreading false information. "We have assigned Professor Lew's case to the criminal division and directed Seodaemun Police Station to conduct the investigation," an official at the Seoul Western District Prosecutors Office said.According to a recording of his Sept. 19 lecture, the renowned right-wing scholar said the so-called comfort women are "kind of prostitutes" while denying they were forced by the Japanese government to work in military brothels during World War II. Explaining women enter sex trade largely of their own volition, he said to a female student who challenged him, "If you are curious, why don't you try?" He faced fierce criticism after the remarks

Sep 27, 2019
Police begin probe into professor over remarks on wartime sexual slavery

Crime against parents and grandparents mounting

More than 2,700 people were arrested for committing crimes against their parents and grandparents last year, police data showed Friday. According to the data obtained by Rep. So Byung-hoon from the National Police Agency for a parliamentary inspection, the number of people apprehended for crimes targeting their lineal ascendants was 2,705 last year, up 90.5 percent from 1,420 in 2014.Comparable figures were 2,222 in 2015, 2,685 in 2016 and 2,359 in 2017. By type of crime, assault took the lion's share with 1,845 or 68.2 percent of the total last year, trailed by bodily harm with 403, intimidation with 152 and murder with 73, the data said. The ratio of offenders taken into custody was 4.8 percent last year, compared with 6.98 percent in 2014, 5.6 percent in 2015, 5.3 percent in 2016 and 5.1 percent in 2017. (Yonhap)

Sep 27, 2019
Crime against parents and grandparents mounting
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