Author: GIKorea

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This woman lost her mind on the subway and is now going to jail for it:

A Seoul court sentenced a 26-year-old woman to one year in prison Wednesday for smashing an elderly man on the head repeatedly with her mobile phone after a viral video showing the violent scene enraged many.

The incident happened in March in a subway train on Line No. 9 when the two got into a fight after the victim in his 60s chided her for spitting on the subway car. The woman was seen in the video shouting and beating the man on the head with her phone repeatedly.

The violence caused him to bleed in the head.

As the woman subsequently stood trial on charges of inflicting injuries and insults, additional violence charges were added for allegedly hitting a passenger and pouring a beverage over the passenger’s head in a subway train in October.

Yonhap

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Good luck trying to get people to believe this, though the inflation crisis I think is starting to make realize that giving out free money maybe is not a good thing:

 President Yoon Suk-yeol sounded the alarm on the country’s fiscal health on Thursday, saying people should wake up from the “fantasy” that increasing government spending will automatically improve people’s livelihoods.

Yoon made the remark while presiding over a fiscal strategy meeting with members of the government and the private sector at Chungbuk National University in Cheongju, 112 kilometers southeast of Seoul.

“We must wake up from the fantasy of fiscal universalism,” Yoon said, describing it as the belief that if the government spends more of its budget, “automatically, the economy will grow and people’s livelihoods will improve.”

“In order to overcome the people’s livelihood issues and fiscal crisis that we face, the government has to be the first to tighten its belt,” he added.

The finance ministry unveiled plans to reduce the fiscal deficit to a size equivalent to less than 3 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), from the 5.1 percent estimate for this year, and to cut the debt-to-GDP ratio to around “the midpoint” of the 50 percent range by 2027 to help slow the pace of the national debt.

Yonhap

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It appears a North Korean boy’s body has been found floating in the Han River estuary:

The corpse of a very thin boy washed up in South Korean waters near the sea border with North Korea and police are looking for clues as to whether it came from the North.    
   
A 110-centimeter-tall boy was found dead near Jeollyu port in the Han River Estuary on Wednesday. Police wonder whether he was washed over the border.  
   
According to the Ilsan Western Police, the body of the child was discovered by a fisherman around 12 p.m.   

The corpse didn’t seem to have injuries but was extremely thin.    
   
“The boy seems to be around the age of 10 and was only wearing a pair of worn-out, red shorts — no shirt,” a police officer said.    
   
The shorts had no brand and had a rubber band around the waistline, which would be unusual on a South Korean child.    
   
To identify the corpse, the police asked the National Institute of Forensic Sciences to determine the manufacturer of the shorts.   

Joong Ang Ilbo

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I think the Yoon administration needs to be careful with this because what is to stop the Korean left once they are back in power at some point and prosecuting conservative officials for payback. We have already seen them do this at the Presidential level:

South Korea’s state spy agency said Wednesday it has requested formal investigations by prosecutors into allegations that two of its former chiefs mishandled controversial incidents involving North Korea a few years earlier.

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) filed a complaint with the Supreme Prosecutors Office against Park Jie-won for “deleting intelligence-related reports without authorization” in regard to North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official in 2020.

Park, formerly a longtime lawmaker, is accused of abusing his authority and unlawfully destroying public electronic records during his stint as director of the NIS under the previous liberal Moon Jae-in administration.

In September 2020, Lee Dae-jun, then 47 years old, was fatally shot by the North’s coast guard near the Yellow Sea border between the two Koreas, a day after going missing while on duty on board a fishery inspection boat.

A storm of controversy has stirred up here since the South’s Coast Guard and the defense ministry recently announced that they have not found any concrete evidence backing the probe results from two years ago that the official might have attempted to defect to North Korea.

Yonhap

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I think what President Yoon is preparing the ROK military for, is to strongly respond to a Cheonan sinking or Yeonpyeong Island shelling like provocation. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to this, but North Korea seems due to provoke something in the Yellow Sea which has been quiet for quite a while:

President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered the military on Wednesday to swiftly punish North Korea in case of provocations as he presided over a meeting of top commanders for the first time since taking office.

“(The president) ordered our military to swiftly and firmly punish North Korea in the event that it carries out a provocation,” his office said after Yoon’s meeting with the commanders from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps at the Gyeryongdae military headquarters, 160 kilometers south of Seoul.

“He stressed that it is the military’s mission to defend the people’s lives, property, territory and sovereignty at all costs, and that we must firmly show our resolve to do so,” the office said in a statement.

North Korea has carried out a series of short- to long-range missile tests since Yoon’s inauguration in May and showed signs of preparing for what would be its seventh nuclear test.

Yonhap

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