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Court challenges UNLIMITED detention of foreigners awaiting deportation

The Seoul High Court has questioned the legitimacy of an Immigration Control Law section that allows foreigners sentenced to deportation to be kept in custody for an unlimited time. / Korea Times fileBy Ko Dong-hwan, Park Si-sooA court has questioned an immigration control law that allows unlimited detention of foreigners awaiting deportation.The Seoul High Court recently filed a petition with the Constitutional Court asking the top court to examine the constitutionality of Article 63, Clause 1 of the Immigration Control Law. It lays the ground for immigration authorities to detain foreigners awaiting deportation, but it doesn’t stipulate a time limit.“Putting foreigners in protective facilities under the law unfairly deprives them of physical freedom, which is equivalent to arrest or imprisonment,” the court said. “When the mandate in question has to be enforced, there must be a legitimate mechanism justifying the action.”The high court filed the petition citing the case of a Chinese man who has been detained since October 2015.The man, whose name

Oct 18, 2017
Court challenges UNLIMITED detention of foreigners awaiting deportation
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Hana Tour's 1 million customer records leaked

By Jung Min-hoSensitive personal information of 1 million people was leaked online in a cyberattack against Korea’s largest travel agency, Hana Tour, according to police Wednesday.The information includes names, resident registration numbers, phone numbers, home addresses and email addresses.Yet the firm did not report the incident to police or the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) until recently. It was revealed by media reports Tuesday.“We acknowledge it was leaked on Sept. 28 after maintenance technicians found that our computers were infected with malicious code,” the company said in a statement.“We sincerely apologize for what happened.”Police said they started investigating the incident after receiving the firm’s report on Oct. 13.It is unclear who is behind the attacks. What is clear is the attacker did so to make money. According to police, the attacker asked the company for bitcoin in return for the stolen data, which was produced between October 2004 and August 2007.Some people suspect that North Korea is behind the attacks.At the

Oct 18, 2017
Hana Tour's 1 million customer records leaked

Prosecutors raid McDonald's Korea over 'hamburger disease'

Prosecutors on Wednesday raided McDonald's Korea's headquarters and three partner companies as part of a probe into allegations that it undercooked burger patties, causing some consumers to get sick.Investigators searched the main office of McDonald's Korea in central Seoul and its patty suppliers to confiscate evidence, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said. The probe was launched after a complaint was filed in July by a woman who claimed her five-year-old daughter was diagnosed with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) after eating a Happy Meal burger that came with undercooked meat. She now has to receive dialysis for the rest of her life. A series of similar consumer accusations followed.Joh Ju-yeon, the chief of McDonald's Korea, expressed regret in a media statement last month. (Yonhap)

Oct 18, 2017
Prosecutors raid McDonald's Korea over 'hamburger disease'

4 police officers indicted over farmer's death

By Kim Se-jeongThe prosecution indicted four police officers Tuesday on charges of negligent homicide in the death of farmer Baek Nam-ki.Spray from a water cannon knocked Baek down during an anti-government protest in downtown Seoul, Nov. 18, 2015. He died Sept. 25, 2016 at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) after remaining unconscious for almost 10 months.“Baek’s death was a result of abusive power exerted by the authorities who failed to follow the water cannon manual and supervise the officers on duty,” said prosecutor Lee Dong-jin. “What’s left to us now is to bring them to justice for abusing their power and killing an innocent citizen.”The decision comes almost two years after Baek’s family and a group of farmers requested a criminal investigation into seven police officers.Prosecutors did not indict Kang Shin-myung, then-chief of the National Police Agency, saying he had “nothing to do with water cannon truck operations on the day of the incident.”The four indicted officers include two who fired the water cannon at B

Oct 17, 2017

Top prosecutor hints at probe of Lee Myung-bak

By Jung Min-hoProsecutor General Mun Moo-il speaks during a press conference at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office in southern Seoul, Tuesday. / YonhapFormer President Lee Myung-bak can’t be exempt from law enforcement, Prosecutor General Mun Moo-il said Tuesday when asked about investigations into alleged illegalities found during Lee’s term.The ex-president has been suspected of involvement in the National Intelligence Service’s online smear campaign against then-liberal presidential candidate Moon Jae-in in the 2012 presidential election.Asked whether the prosecution will investigate Lee, Mun said, “We cannot ignore the evidence we’ve gathered.” He declined to elaborate, but his remarks indicate the prosecution could soon look into the actions of the former president.The prosecution has also been investigating an allegation the spy agency created a blacklist of artists to cut off from state subsidies while he was president.It is looking into the BBK stock price manipulation scandal once again, in which Lee was accused of siphoning off money through

Oct 17, 2017
Top prosecutor hints at probe of Lee Myung-bak

Thug accused of biting off friend's ear in bar brawl

By Bahk Eun-ji, Park Si-sooA man was accused of biting off part of another man’s ear in a drunken fight in a bar, police said Tuesday. The man whose ear was bitten was also prosecuted for assaulting the other man with a liquor bottle.Police said both men belonged to the same criminal gang.Police said the bloody fight took place at a bar in Namwon, North Jeolla Province, on Sept. 1. At around 3:10 a.m., a man surnamed Lee, 45, hit the other man, surnamed Yoo, 46, with a liquor bottle.Yoo fought back, pushing Lee against a wall and punching and kicking him. The two ended up on the ground, where Yoo bit off part of Lee’s ear.The two were arrested at the scene.Lee allegedly told police that Yoo had left the gang and had since looked down on him. 

Oct 17, 2017
Thug accused of biting off friend's ear in bar brawl

Police officers accused of farmer's death by water cannon

Four police officials, including a former Seoul police chief, were indicted Tuesday on charges of negligent homicide in the death of an activist farmer due to injuries caused by a police water cannon.In November 2015, Baek Nam-ki fell unconscious after he was shot directly by a police water cannon during an anti-government rally. The farmer in his 60s was in a coma before he died of acute renal failure in September 2016.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office indicted Goo Eun-soo, then commissioner of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, and Shin Yun-kyun, then chief of the 4th riot squad, without detention.Two other police officers who operated the water cannon will also face trial without detention.The prosecution said the police did not follow rules, which ban firing water cannons directly at a person above the chest. Baek was hit directly in his head with the high pressure jet.It accused the police of neglecting their duty to control the use of force with the utmost caution given safety concerns.The probe also revealed that a device that controls the water pressure was ma

Oct 17, 2017
Police officers accused of farmer's death by water cannon

Top court confirms life sentence of Vietnamese murderer

The Supreme Court upheld Tuesday the life imprisonment handed down on a Vietnamese fisherman convicted of killing two South Koreans aboard a vessel in the Indian Ocean in June 2016, after he appealed a lower court decision.Prosecutors have indicted the man and his Vietnamese accomplice, both aged 32, on suspicion of assaulting and stabbing to death the 43-year-old captain and the 42-year-old engineer of the deep-sea fishing vessel Kwang Hyun 803 in waters near the Seychelles.The top court also turned down an appeal filed by the accomplice, who was convicted of assaulting the two South Koreans, and upheld a high court ruling that sentenced him to one year in prison.The two Vietnamese men, who are cousins, previously appealed their respective sentences, handed down by the Busan District Court in January, but the Busan High Court upheld the decisions in June.They committed the crimes after one of them had a quarrel with the boat's captain. The two Vietnamese men had said they killed the victims because they were worried that they would be ordered off the fishing vessel due to the fight.

Oct 17, 2017
Top court confirms life sentence of Vietnamese murderer

Ex-Seoul police chief questioned over bribery allegations

A former Seoul police chief appeared before the prosecution Tuesday to undergo questioning over alleged bribery involving a local businessman.Goo Eun-soo, an ex-commissioner of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, is suspected of receiving tens of millions of won in kickbacks from the chairman of multi-level marketing company IDS Holdings in return for the promotion of a police official. Goo served as Seoul police chief from 2014-2015."I will faithfully answer in the investigation," Goo told reporters as he went into the building of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office.The IDS head was sentenced to 15 years in prison last month for fraud in connection with the pyramid scheme business. (Yonhap)

Oct 17, 2017

Former spy agency director arrested in probe of election meddling

Choo Myeong-ho / YonhapA former senior official of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) was detained Tuesday over allegations that he took charge in the spy agency's massive political maneuver to benefit the two previous governments.Choo Myeong-ho, then chief of the NIS domestic intelligence unit, is suspected of directing a string of operations to surveil and disadvantage high-profile figures and celebrities critical of the Lee Myung-bak government.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said it has put Choo under custody on charges of abuse of authority and political interference in violation of NIS law. It is expected to request an arrest warrant for Choo as early as Wednesday.He is also accused of taking the lead in the scheme aimed at maligning Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and his key policies. The mayor has filed a complaint with the prosecution asking a formal investigation into the suspicions.Choo has been under questioning by the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office since Monday. He also faces separate allegations that he was involved in other similar operations

Oct 17, 2017
Former spy agency director arrested in probe of election meddling
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