More than 1,000 teenagers, including two elementary school children, were arrested during a six-month crackdown on online gambling among young people, officials said Thursday. The National Office of Investigation announced that it had apprehended 2,925 individuals, including 1,035 teenagers, in a bust initiated in September last year. Among them, 75 adults were formally arrested while 566 teens have been sent to coun.
Over one in three online gambling offenders caught during the recent crackdown were teenagers, the National Police Agency (NPA) said, Thursday, highlighting concerns over a rising number of young people being exposed to illegal gambling sites and becoming addicted.
Two actors in South Korea faced fresh allegations of past bullying—the latest in a yearslong movement to try to address a persistent problem of school violence.
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Police on Monday sought arrest warrants for two suspected accomplices in the recently detected installation of spy cameras at about 40 early voting stations ahead of the April 10 general elections.