South Korea is generally a very safe country, with a murder rate of 1.3 per 100,000 people in 2021, according to official statistics — below the global average of six homicide deaths per 100,000 people. The country witnessed a string of high-profileviolent crime incidents in 2023, however,...
South Korea foils murder attempt on defector-activistDAVID McNEILL
While overall crime rates in South Korea are generally low, the country has long suffered from an epidemic of spy-cam crimes, which led to major protests in 2018 inspired by the global #MeToo movement, eventually forcing lawmakers to strengthen laws. Even so "the penalties issued are often t...
In South Korea’s hyper-competitive job market, well-paying jobs at large conglomerates are few and far between. In the last 10 years, the youth unemployment rate has jumped from 6.9% to 9.9%. If you include youth who are working part time, as well as those who are not in prison, sc...
Rate This Why, you might ask. The North Korea is getting away with murdering South Korean sailors and the United States called Lee Myung-bak to cool it for now because the U.S. has no policy to deal with this problem for now. Obama does not know what to do with a rogue nation ...
Panmunjeom is unique in that it is under the joint management of the United Nations Command (UNC) and North Korea. However, since the 1976 ax murder incident (in which North Korean guards attacked a UNC work party and killed two American officers), the sentries have been separated and ...
The situation is more severe in South Korea, which has the second highest suicide rate of all the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries; a suicide rate of 25.8 per 100,000 was reported in 20152, and suicide was the fifth most common cause of death in South Korea in...
𝕏 South Korea is getting ready to host the Olympics in 2018. But a new investigation by the Associated Press has revealed that the last time the country hosted the Olympics, in 1988, the country locked up thousands of so-called vagrants and was complicit in theirmurder and rape. ...
Then we have a murder taking place just right out of the book of "I Know What You Did Last Summer". But the teenagers' conscience doesn't get any time to come knocking since the first one of them is already killed off after a short time by someone or something. And naturally the ...