SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The suspect in last month’s attempted rape and killing of a woman on a hiking trail in Seoul has told investigators that he took his cue from a similar case last year in which a man kicked a woman unconscious for a suspected rape attempt in the southeastern city [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government will start the process to review the country’s unitary medial law system that covers the entire health professional, including doctors and nurses, in follow-up measures against a controversial nursing act that had rocked the local medical community, a vice health minister said Tuesday. The nursing [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Police have busted a drug ring that operated networks in Cambodia, China and Nigeria to smuggle methamphetamine into South Korea and seized billions of won worth of the drug from its members here, officials said Sunday. The drug ring, run by a Korean, a Chinese and a Nigerian national, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Friday ruled in favor of a civic group seeking to reverse a police decision to partially ban its plan to march toward the presidential office in protest against Japan’s release of treated radioactive water. A civic group, called Collective Action Against Japan’s Release of Contaminated [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean medical community has reacted strongly to a recent Supreme Court ruling involving a surgeon who faced legal consequences for delaying surgery on a patient with a small bowel obstruction due to professional negligence. In the past month, the top court upheld the decision regarding an individual referred [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting this week, anybody who calls a teacher will be informed in advance that their conversation may be recorded, the Ministry of Education said Monday, stepping up its efforts to protect teachers from abusive complaints by parents. Kindergartens, and elementary, middle and high schools across the country will be [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul High Court has recommended that the government reverse its 2020 decision to revoke the organizational license of a North Korean defectors’ group for sending anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets over to the North, sources said Thursday. The recommendation was made Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by the Fighters for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The police have made the decision to provide each local police officer, including those stationed at district and police boxes, with a firearm within a three-year timeframe, according to NPA’s announcement on Tuesday. This initiative includes the issuance of a .38 revolver as well as a low-risk revolver (or [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — In a case that stirred debate, a 50-year-old husband who was accused of rape by his 20-year-old Thai wife has been acquitted through a participatory trial system. This unique trial structure involves citizens serving as jurors or potential jurors in criminal proceedings. The Busan District Court, Criminal Division [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court said Friday that doctors of traditional Korean medicine, also known as Oriental medicine doctors, cannot be punished for using brain wave sensors, a modern medical device, to diagnose Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. The top court’s ruling came after a Korean medicine doctor was slapped with a [...]