A missing woman in her 20s returned home safely to her family after a full week, having survived in the wilderness by eating azaleas, Busan Metropolitan Police Agency said Tuesday. The woman, surnamed Kim, and her mother were taking out the trash on March 26 when Kim suddenly disappeared, with her phone having dropped on the stairway. Kim’s mother told police that Kim was barefoot at the time and had a purple cloth over her head. (Busan Metropolitan Police Agency)The last place she was seen was

A 60-year-old teacher at an all-girls high school has been booked without physical detention on the suspicion of sexually harassing two students, Incheon Yeonsu police said Tuesday.The teacher is accused of touching two students inappropriately on separate occasions between June and July last year. One of the victims, who graduated in February, recently called the Incheon Office of Education’s sexual violence telephone hotline. After receiving counseling, the victim then requested for police ass

Jeju Seogwipo Police Station said Monday that it has asked the court to issue arrest warrants for four illegal immigrants from China over physical battery charges. A 39-year-old suspect and three others are accused of ganging up and physically assaulting a 26-year-old victim and two other undocumented Chinese workers with a deadly weapon near the Dongmun Rotary bus stop at around 10:50 p.m. last Thursday. It is said the fight got out of hand after a simple verbal disagreement.  Dongmun Rotary in

A man in his 60s was booked without detention for allegedly committing verbal and physical harassment of a woman on a city bus, Busan Nambu Police Station said Monday. The man is accused of verbally attacking two women sitting in the designated seat for pregnant women on a local bus in Suyeong district, Busan, Sunday.  (Yonhap)The victims alleged that the intoxicated man directed hostile insults at them, saying that “fat people should just eat animal feed.” After one of the victims called 112 an

The National Police Agency reported on Monday that they received 10 false reports of criminal activity on April Fools’ Day, which fell on Sunday in South Korea. Among the false reports, a woman in her 40s made a false police report, in which the “nature of the crime was deemed absolutely despicable.” She was booked without detainment, while nine other cases were relayed to the court for summary trials, police said Monday. The woman called the police on Monday saying that “her child in her husban

A 54-year-old man was booked after he beat his wife to death over her alleged adultery, Ulsan Jungbu Police Station said Friday. The man is accused of killing his 57-year-old wife through physical battery at the pub owned by the victim in the early hours Friday. A dispute broke out between the two after the victim realized that her husband secretly followed her to the pub, according to the police. While they were arguing, the suspect reportedly saw that his wife received an incoming call from an

Lee Kyung-eun, better known by her stage name Ha Ri-su, shared the emotional turbulence she has been experiencing via her Instagram late Thursday night. In the post, the 43-year-old celebrity wrote: “The people I love are called ‘dirty,’ the public criticizes them for loving me and everything falls apart because of me. My sole existence is to blame. Should I just drop everything and rest for a while? I cried too much that I can‘t see or breathe right. I don’t want to live like this any longer.”

Police have asked the court on Thursday to issue an arrest warrant for a 35-year-old man as the sole suspect in the death of a woman who fell from a motel in Iksan, North Jeolla Province. The suspect is accused of forcibly detaining his former girlfriend, 35, for six hours in a motel room on the fifth floor and threatening her with a deadly weapon at 4 p.m. on Jan. 7. It is said the victim jumped out the window and died at 10 p.m. The suspect claimed that he left the motel room shortly after see

South Korean model and TV personality Han Hye-jin attended on Thursday a promotional event for footwear brand “Superga and ALEXACHUNG” at Chungdam-dong, southern Seoul. Given her years of modelling experience, Han did not shy away from the camera. She looked stunning in a long, white dress embellished with red roses. Her waist was accentuated with a red belt. The model stood out from the crowd with her lean and long figure.  (Twitter)Many other celebrities, such as model Jang Yoon-joo, model-act

Kakao, operator of the nation’s top mobile messenger service KakaoTalk, will introduce its new Kakao Melon music platform to be infused into its chat rooms, the company said Thursday. Kakao Melon will offer various ways for customers to enjoy listening to shared music, gifting songs and expressing themselves with music while chatting with friends. The latest music platform provides customers an experience that goes beyond simply listening to music and caters to customers’ sharing of a whole vari

A clip of Big Bang‘s T.O.P was shared online Wednesday, which showed the top boy band rapper serving his military duties at the Yongsan-gu Office in Seoul. In the released video, T.O.P was seen helping children make arts and crafts with clay at the Yongsan Crafts Museum. The children all had rolls of clay in front of them. They appeared to be enjoying their time rolling out the clay.  (Facebook)T.O.P stood behind the children with his arms folded behind his back. Despite his stern face, he appea

A 22-year-old man was briefly detained on suspicion of killing his 19-year-old wife by injecting her with liquid nicotine on their honeymoon in Osaka, Japan, Sejong Police Station said Wednesday. The man is accused of murdering his wife on April 25 last year by injecting her with the prepared substance in order to claim the victim’s life insurance payout, worth 150 million won ($140,000). The murder suspect reported to dispatched Osaka policemen that his wife had “committed suicide.”  (Yonhap)Af

A high-ranking police officer has come under suspicion of sexually harassing a passenger sitting next to him on an intercity bus, Andong Police Station said Monday. The senior inspector, 59, is accused of sexual misconduct against a 25-year-old woman on an intercity bus going from Daegu to Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, on Friday evening.  (Yonhap)The victim called for police as soon as the bus arrived in Andong at 10 p.m., reporting the incident to the North Gyeongsang Police Agency. Given

A 65-year-old man, surnamed Park, was booked without detention on suspicion of shooting and running over a Jindo dog, according to Busan Gangseo Police Station on Monday. The Jindo breed, designated as the nation’s 53rd national treasure in 1962, is so-named because it is believed to have originated from Jindo Island. Park is accused of shooting the Jindo twice with his air rifle and then running over the dog with his car. The dog was killed from the impact of the car at 8:20 a.m. Sunday, near a

The #MeToo movement that has swept South Korea since January has been met with a backlash from some men, who insist the movement is prejudiced against them. More men have begun to criticize past #MeToo allegations raised by women and the feminism-related perspectives associated with them. Male advocates also voiced their views through the recently launched “#YouToo” Facebook and Twitter accounts. The “#YouToo” hashtag is designed to encourage male survivors of sexual assault and harassment to po

The Yeongdeok Police Station launched Friday an investigation into the death of a man, whose body was found along a hiking trail in Yeongdeok County, North Gyeongsang Province. A mountain trekker who was looking for medicinal herbs called the police after discovering the victim’s body hanging from a tree by his neck, at 7:40 a.m. Friday.  (Yonhap)Police officers said that the victim might be a public servant who went missing after leaving his house at 6:20 a.m. on Dec. 11 in Yeongdeok County, gi

A doctor was found guilty on the charge of involuntary manslaughter after he ordered a female patient who had postpartum hemorrhage to be transported to a hospital 40 kilometers away rather than to a nearby hospital, the Supreme Court said Friday. The Supreme Court upheld the lower courts’ ruling Friday, ordering the 59-year-old doctor, surnamed Lee, to pay a fine of 10 million won ($9,300). Lee is accused of refusing to perform a hysterectomy or an ultrasound on the patient, who was bleeding he

The Daegu Dongbu Police Station on Friday launched a probe into allegations that a policeman sexually assaulted an intoxicated woman he had met on a blind date. The 30-year-old patrol officer was booked without detention on charges of raping the victim, who was extremely intoxicated and therefore unable to consent, according to police. Police have handed over the case to prosecutors with an indictment. (Yonhap)The 24-year-old victim alleged that the suspect took her to a nearby motel and raped h

The Unification Ministry is fine-tuning the details before sending a 160-member art troupe to Pyongyang for two performances between March 31 and April 3. The artists included Cho Yong-pil, Lee Sun-hee, Choi Jin-hee, rock singer Yoon Do-hyun, Baek Ji-young, Jung-in, former Girls’ Generation member Seohyun, Ali and K-pop act Red Velvet.Among the much-anticipated performances, it is said Baek Ji-young is the most popular north of the border, thanks to her award-winning soundtracks for TV dramas an

Police recently arrested 80 people for their alleged smuggling of drugs and online sale via bitcoin currency transactions.Seoul investigators said Wednesday that they were investigating a large-scale drug smuggling ring, where suspects were buying and selling drugs from overseas using bitcoin via an online site called “Deep Web.” A 29-year-old suspect, surnamed Kim, and 23 others were arrested for drug trafficking charges in violation of the Act on the Control of Narcotics. A 32-year-old suspect