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Controversy over governor's wife heating up

By Kim Hyun-binThe conclusion drawn by police that a disputed social network account belongs to the wife of Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung is growing into yet another political controversy for him.On Saturday, police announced that Kim Hye-gyeong, the wife of Lee Jae-myung owned the Twitter account that spread false information about her husband's opponents and rivals, including President Moon Jae-in, over the past several years.Police will forward the case to the prosecution today as a possible violation of Election Law.However, Lee immediately struck back at the investigation result, and his supporters also held a rally calling it an unjust probe. “The process to indict Kim is the work of political police to mislead the public and disgrace the couple. We will no longer be deceived,” said the group in front of Bundang Police Station, Saturday.The ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) said that it needs to wait for ruling by the judiciary. “They are denying the accusations, we need to watch how the case pans out” said Rep. Hong Ihk-pyo, a DPK spokesman. But Pyo Chang-won,

Nov 18, 2018By Kim Hyun-bin
Controversy over governor's wife heating up

Rude McDonald's customer undergoes police probe

A customer in a car at a McDonald's drive-thru in Ulsan throws bagged food at a worker in this video footage taken Sunday. The video taken by the dash camera of the car behind went viral and the offender was questioned by police for assault, Thursday./ YonhapBy Jung Hae-myoung A customer who threw food at a worker at a McDonald's drive-thru in Ulsan underwent police questioning on charges of assault, Thursday.He said he would like to “sincerely apologize” to the part-time worker for his behavior, according to Ulsan Jungbu Police, Friday.Police said the 49-year-old male customer, surnamed Kim, was questioned for about an hour late Thursday evening. During the questioning, Kim said he got angry when his food came out as a single item while he ordered a set menu, and this was fueled by accumulated stress from work. He claimed he threw the bag of food but did not know it hit her face. He also denied he swore at the worker; the victim claims he did when he threw the bag.Kim talked on the phone with the family of the part-timer before being questioned, according to the police.

Nov 16, 2018
Rude McDonald's customer undergoes police probe

Boy falls to death after mob attack

Four middle school students are taken out of Namdong Police Station in Incheon, Friday, for a court review for arrest warrants, as another boy died after falling from an apartment building while allegedly being assaulted by them, Tuesday. The court issued the warrants. / YonhapBy Kim RahnPolice are investigating the death of a middle school boy who died after falling from an apartment building while allegedly being assaulted by his fellow students.They asked the prosecution to file for arrest warrants for the four alleged offenders, three second-grade middle school boys and a third-grade girl. A local court issued the warrants, Friday.According to Yeonsu Police Station in Incheon, the four students assaulted the 14-year-old boy, whose name was withheld, on the rooftop of a 15-story apartment building in Yeonsu-gu from about 5:20 p.m. Tuesday. The boy fell from the building at 6:40 p.m., and police suspected he did so while trying to avoid the assault.The suspects said they were angry because the boy made fun of the appearance of one of their fathers, and planned the assault in retali

Nov 16, 2018By Kim Rahn
Boy falls to death after mob attack

Police confirm Korean tech CEO's spycam porn cartel

Jung Jin-gwan, the head of the cyber safety division at the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Station, presents the results of an investigation into IT company head Yang Jin-ho and a spycam porn cartel, at a police station in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, Friday. / YonhapBy Lee Suh-yoonAfter a months-long investigation into Yang Jin-ho, the owner of the nation's two biggest file sharing sites, police have confirmed the existence of a million-dollar cartel for the production and distribution of spycam porn videos.Apart from owning WeDisk and Filenori, file sharing platforms where spycam clips and revenge porn were circulated, police found Yang had a hand in virtually every stage of the profitable operation.“Through this investigation, we found Yang was the de-facto owner of not only the two online file sharing platforms but also a monitoring company supposed to filter out spycam content. It is also a digital undertaker agency that removes such content upon a request from victims, confirming the reality of a spycam porn cartel,” Jung Jin-gwan, head of the cyber safety division a

Nov 16, 2018
Police confirm Korean tech CEO's spycam porn cartel

Government goes all out to combat online 'sexploitation'

By Kim Jae-heunPan-government efforts are being made to crack down on online sharing of illegally produced or uploaded sexual content.Relevant ministries and state organizations, led by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, are devising measures to strictly control and punish the prolific online sex crimes across the country.They believe the most serious problem with online sex crimes these days is that file-sharing websites have become the main distribution channel of illegal photos and videos, such as revenge porn and voyeur videos, and operators of these sites are abetting or even colluding in their distribution.The Ministry of Justice will strengthen punishment for online platform operators that are involved in the distribution of such content, and claim any related profits. A new law, which was passed in September, also enables the government to claim from the distributor the expenses spent for deleting obscene materials online.The National Police Agency (NPA) has received reports from civic groups and the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) about file-sharing

Nov 15, 2018By Kim Jae-heun
  • Center helps online sex crime victims

Center helps online sex crime victims

Consultants receive phone calls at the Digital Sex Crime Victim Support Center in Jung-gu, central Seoul, Nov. 3. /Courtesy of Women's Human Rights Institute of KoreaBy Kim Jae-heunSpreading sexual content on the internet, including voyeur videos and revenge porn, has become a serious problem here, with its means of circulation diversifying along with technological development. The Women's Human Rights Institute of Korea, an affiliated organization of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, said putting a stop to the spread of sexually explicit pictures or videos shared without consent of the person shown is no longer as simple as requesting a website operator to delete the content.“The invention of the smartphone has allowed people to take pictures and shoot videos of sexually explicit scenes and share them online,” Ryu Hae-jin, consultant team manager at Digital Sex Crime Victim Support Center in central Seoul, said during an interview with The Korea Times last month.“Some 75 percent of the crimes are committed by people close to the victim, most often a spous

Nov 15, 2018By Kim Jae-heun
Center helps online sex crime victims
  • Government goes all out to combat online 'sexploitation'

Isu Station assault sparks gender-charged debate online

By Lee Suh-yoonAn assault case at a pub has unleashed another wave of online anger against Korea's patriarchal society, as two women involved claim four men beat them up for “not following femininity norms” because the women had short haircuts and went without makeup.The two women ― sisters in their 20s ― were both hospitalized after the altercation with some male customers at a pub near Isu Station, central Seoul. According to an online post uploaded by the younger sister, the fight started after a group of young men from the neighboring table insulted them for their “unfeminine looks,” using derogatory terms that target radical feminists in Korea. The photo of a woman with an injured head after she was assaulted by men at a pub near Isu Station, Seoul, posted online by her younger sister, Wednesday.The conflict quickly escalated as the women verbally retaliated. In the resulting attack, the younger woman was choked and pushed to the floor. Her sister, while trying to stop one of the men from running away until the police came, was kicked backward onto the st

Nov 15, 2018
Isu Station assault sparks gender-charged debate online

Jeju Air fined 9 billion won for transporting lithium batteries without approval

By Kim Hyun-binKorea's top budget carrier Jeju Air was slapped with a 9 billion won ($7.9 million) fine by the government on Thursday, for transporting unauthorized lithium battery powered watches on 20 different occasions.The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport finalized the fine as the airline was caught transporting lithium powered wrist watches from countries like Hong Kong without government approval, between April and May, a ministry spokesman said. Lithium batteries are categorized as dangerous materials as they could lead to a fire.The final decision comes after the airline requested a review of the ministry's initial penalty imposed in September. The airline claimed the punishment was too severe considering the lithium batteries on wrist watches were subminiature in size compared to that of cell phone batteries, which have caused several fires on aircraft. However, the ministry stood by the first decision. “We do not accept the fines and are considering filing an administrative suit for appropriate results,” an official of Jeju Air told The Korea

Nov 15, 2018By Kim Hyun-bin
Jeju Air fined 9 billion won for transporting lithium batteries without approval

Ex-professor convicted of defaming 'comfort women'

By Park Si-soo An appellate court has upheld the conviction of a former professor who was accused of defaming Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II. Gwangju Provincial Court made the ruling on Thursday, upholding a lower court's six-month jail term imposed on the former professor at Sunchon National University. The scholar, whose name was withheld, was charged with defaming victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery system, collectively called “comfort women,” during a lecture on April 26, 2017. According to court documents, the ex-professor claimed some women joined the system “voluntarily in pursuit of their sexual pleasure.” He claimed the accuser, a Sunchon-based human rights group, misunderstood the point of his remark. But the court did not agree. “The accused, as a national university professor, committed a crime tarnishing the name of comfort women seriously,” Judge Im joo-hyuk wrote in a ruling statement. “In addition, the accused did nothing to recover the damage to the victims.” The un

Nov 15, 2018
Ex-professor convicted of defaming 'comfort women'

Missing college student found dead in lake

Police investigate the lake area where the body of a missing college student was found in southern Seoul, Wednesday. YonhapInvestigators at the scene in southern Seoul / YonhapBy Jung Min-hoThe body of a college student has been found in Seokchon Lake, southern Seoul.Songpa Police Station said Thursday that investigators are now looking into the death of the student, 19, surnamed Cho, after finding his body at the bottom of the lake about 12:10 p.m. Wednesday.Police also found his bag containing a mobile phone and a laptop computer in the water. Data on the devices will be investigated.The National Forensic Service will carry out an autopsy on the body soon to find the cause of death.Cho, who was a Namyangju resident, went missing on Nov. 8 after drinking in southern Seoul with three friends. Police said they shared four bottles of soju.After texting his family around midnight that he was on his way home, he took a taxi. But for an unknown reason, he got out near Jamsil Station and hailed another taxi by using the Kakao T mobile app, police said.Because of miscommunication with the t

Nov 15, 2018By Jung Min-ho
Missing college student found dead in lake
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