South Korea will scrap its traditional method of counting age known as "Korean age" and adopt the internationally recognized system beginning Wednesday, but there will be a few exceptions, including the legal age for drinking and smoking. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced Tuesday that although Korea will adopt international age, the legal age to drink alcohol and buy tobacco will re.
Police are reportedly considering applying murder charges for a woman in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, in her 30s, who is alleged to have kept the bodies of two 1-day-old infants in a freezer at her apartment, instead of infanticide charges amid growing criticism that punishment for the crime is too light. Criminals convicted of infanticide face up to 10 years in jail, far lighter than murder. A lineal ascendant who kill.
Twenty students were found to have fallen victim to child abuse, a pangovernmental investigation into thousands of students who missed classes for more than seven days without prior notice on Friday. Four cases have already been sent to the prosecution, and investigations are being underway for the other 16 cases, the officials said. They were among a total of 6,871 cases of students who did not attend school for mor.
South Korea is facing growing calls for changes to the birth notification system after an infant’s body was found in a trash can in Ulsan following other recent infanticide cases. Ulsan Nambu Police Station said Friday that a dead baby had been found the previous day at an apartment complex in Ulsan. A cleaner reportedly found the body in the trash can and reported it to the police. The police are trying to tra.
An alleged infanticide committed by a Suwon woman in her 30s, who was found to have kept two infant bodies in a freezer at her apartment, was caught while the government was investigating the cases of more than 2,000 babies who were logged born in hospitals, but whose births remain unregistered by their parents for years, according to the state audit agency on Thursday. The Board of Audit and Inspection said it has b.