With so many people turning up missing you would think this guy would have become motivated to do his job. Hopefully he ends up spending time in jail for this to send a message to other lazy policemen:
A police officer, center, who was detained on charges including dereliction of duty and forging public electronic records, is transferred to the prosecution at Jeju Dongbu Police Station in Jeju City, Tuesday. Yonhap
The Jeju Provincial Police said Tuesday that an officer who prematurely closed multiple missing person cases on the island admitted to closing them to avoid the extra workload involved in keeping the cases open.
The controversy erupted after it emerged that the officer had closed the missing person case of Jang Mi-ran, a 37-year-old woman missing for months, without confirming her whereabouts. Last week, police said they had removed all four officers in the chain of command at Jeju Seobu Police Station from their duties, pending an investigation.
You can read more at the link.
I wonder what is causing a rise in crime on Jeju? 🤔
The concentration of cases, and the local police’s failures surrounding some of them, has unsettled residents and visitors alike.
“Many people come to Jeju to stay for several months at a time. I’ve heard that some tenants are canceling their leases following the recent incidents.” a Jeju resident surnamed Cho, who runs a short-term rental business, wrote on Instagram. (…….)
Tourism businesses in Jeju are particularly on edge as the island is already grappling with a decline in domestic visitors.
According to the Jeju Tourism Organization, 963,401 domestic travelers visited the island in July, down 12.4 percent, or 136,620, from 1,100,021 a year earlier. It marked the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020 that Jeju’s monthly domestic visitor count fell below 1 million.
The downward trend continued into August. From Aug. 1-23, Jeju received an average of 35,295 domestic visitors per day, about 300 fewer than the 35,575 recorded during the same period last year.
According to data from the Korean National Police Agency, the island recorded the country’s highest crime rate in 2024, at 4,539.6 crimes per 100,000 people. The rate is calculated based on Jeju’s resident population of around 663,000, while the island receives millions of visitors each year.
You can read more at the link.
Does anyone think this is a slippery slope that could turn into another witch-hunt against the Korean left’s conservatives enemies?:
President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday vowed to hold those who commit state violence accountable and remove the statutes of limitations for criminal and civil cases related to a 1948 civilian massacre on Jeju Island as he honored the victims ahead of its anniversary later this week.
Lee made the pledge during a luncheon meeting with families of the victims of the Jeju April 3 massacre on the southern island, a brutal crackdown on Jeju islanders who rose up against the U.S. military-led rule following Japan’s 1910-45 occupation of Korea.
The then government distorted the uprising as a communist riot and massacred an estimated 14,000-30,000 civilians, or up to 10 percent of the island’s population at the time. The crackdown began in 1947 and lasted for more than seven years.
You can read more at the link, but if someone’s grandpa served as a private in the ROK Army for a year on Jeju during the timeframe in question, does this bill mean property they inherited is going to be seized from them?
