The majority party plans to pass a motion to impeach three top prosecutors, including the chief of the Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office, in a vote next week.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld life imprisonment for a man who went on a deadly stabbing rampage in Bundang, Gyeonggi.
A wild boar rampaged through a city railway station in South Gyeongsang and bit a person's arm on Tuesday.
In July 2023, the 34 year-old Cho Sun assaulted four strangers near Sillim Station in Seoul. One of the victims, a 22-year-old man, died from his injuries. The judge ruled that the crime was extremely violent and savage.
A series of random knife attacks and brass-knuckle assaults this summer, followed by hundreds of threats to do the same, shocked a nation once believed to have one of the highest standards of public security.
A 38-year-old man, who was carrying a machete near Seohyeon subway station in Bundang, Gyeonggi, on Sunday when he was arrested claimed he was just wearing a Halloween costume.
The dearth of specific laws to punish the making of threats online has left the authorities in the lurch, even after arresting hundreds of suspects for threatening to go on stabbing rampages…
Prosecutors on Friday indicted 26-year-old Lee who posted an online murder threat that he would kill 20 women in Sillim-dong last month.
Choi Won-jong, the suspect in the stabbing rampage in Bundang, Gyeonggi, last week, apologized to victims in front of media as police handed his case to prosecution on charges of murder Thursday.
The Ministry of Justice announced Wednesday that it will establish legal provisions to punish murder threats and the possession of weapons in public, following back-to-back stabbings and threats of similar crimes posted online in recent weeks.
Korea JoongAng Daily Sitemap
