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In South Korea, where the fertility rate remains at a record low, each and every newborn baby deserves proper care and attention. Unfortunately, some unregistered babies are exposed to fatal risks and horrendous crimes, due largely to irresponsible parents and the absence of a policy to protect babies. The Board of Audit and Inspection found that a total of 2,236 babies born between 2015 and 2022 were undocumented af...

In South Korea, where the fertility rate remains at a record low, each and every newborn baby deserves proper care and attention. Unfortunately, some unregistered babies are exposed to fatal risks and horrendous crimes, due largely to irresponsible parents and the absence of a policy to protect babies. The Board of Audit and Inspection found that a total of 2,236 babies born between 2015 and 2022 were undocumented af...

A few weeks ago, a 66-year-old semiconductor expert, who previously worked at Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, was indicted and eventually detained by South Korean prosecutors for allegedly stealing top industrial secrets worth millions of dollars to set up a “copycat” semiconductor-making facility in China.

A woman accused of killing her two newborns and keeping their bodies in a refrigerator has declined to attend a court hearing set to be held Friday to determine whether an arrest warrant should be issued for her, police said.

South Korea's military has identified the remains of another soldier killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, about 13 years after their discovery near the inter-Korean border, the defense ministry said Friday. The ministry's Agency for KIA Recovery and Identification confirmed the remains belonged to Pfc. Kim Hyeon-taek, after conducting a DNA analysis using a sample from his daughter. KIA stands for "ki...

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...

A woman accused of killing her two newborns and keeping their bodies in a refrigerator was formally arrested Friday after a court issued a warrant for her arrest. The Suwon District Court issued the warrant, citing fears she might flee. The woman in her 30s was charged with murdering two babies, one boy and one girl, after their births in 2018 and 2019, respectively, and storing their bodies in a freezer at her home ...

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Police on Thursday sought an arrest warrant for a mother accused of killing her two newborn babies and storing their bodies in a refrigerator at home.

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...