The indictment by the Seoul Central District Court on Thursday comes six months after Chun's return to Seoul from New York, where he livestreamed explosive accusations against his own family on social media.
The drug suspects at the apartment building in central Seoul where a police officer fell to his death last month were throwing a birthday party at the site.
Traces of methamphetamine, more commonly known as “philopon” in Korea, were found in every single wastewater treatment plant that was surveyed by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety across the nation over the past three years.
Drug crime is spreading among foreign nationals working along the southern coast of Korea, police say. Tongyeong Coast Guard apprehended some 15 Vietnamese nationals suspected of involvement in drug dealing and drug use.
A web of 131 drug suspects, including 15 minors, has been handed over to prosecutors after an investigation of over two years, Seoul police announced Wednesday.
Since a drink that was mixed with drugs including meth was recently passed off to students as an energy drink developed by a pharmaceutical company in the country’s most famous district for private cram schools, public awareness over rampant drug ...
More drug smugglers are coming to Korea under eased Covid flight restrictions. Two people in their thirties who arrived in Korea at Gimhae International Airport in South Gyeongsang on March 25 were found carrying drugs, according to the Busan...
Police on Monday identified two individuals in China as the alleged masterminds behind a recent illegal drug racket targeting students at cram schools, or hagwon. The suspects allegedly ordered a middleman in Korea to produce ecstasy- and meth-...
Another suspect in a cram-school drug blackmail scheme turned himself in Wednesday. The man in his 20s appeared at a police station around 10 a.m. Wednesday, hours after a 49-year-old woman — another member of the suspected blackmail gang — was...
Police arrested a woman who allegedly drugged high school students with free drinks laced with methamphetamines and ecstasy.
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