By This story was covered on the ROK Drop when this team was established. Now, less than 5 months later, it is being shut down.
A joint probe team charged with investigating crimes committed by foreigners has been dissolved.
The Supreme Public Prosecutors’ Office said that the joint team arrested 157 of some 13-hundred offenders it found since it was launched in October of last year.
Of the foreign offenders, 667 came from China, 210 from Thailand and 101 from the Philippines.
The prosecutors’ office called for the introduction of a fingerprint identification system as a way to curb any crimes committed by the over one million foreigners in Korea. [KBS World]
I would think the fingerprint identification system would be a tool the Crime Investigation Team would use to catch criminals but I can’t see the logic behind shutting down the program when there is more to an investigation than fingerprints.
Does anyone think the fingerprint identification system warrants the shutting down of the Foreign Crime Investigation Team?
It is the sad reality. No mistake...
7:44 pm on April 6th, 2010 1
Yes, it should be shut down since they only arrested 157 of 1300 so called "offenders." The "team" must've been too lazy to do the job.
11:27 pm on April 6th, 2010 2
Am I the only one who remember how Japan's own policy of fingerprinting foreign residents (i.e. Koreans) caused an uproar in the local media about a decade ago?
7:30 am on April 7th, 2010 3
Maybe they are not needed because the "foreign crime wave' is all media fiction?
8:06 am on April 7th, 2010 4
BINGO! We have a winner.
8:47 am on April 7th, 2010 5
Hey!! I saw a couple team members just this past Monday.
It was around 7:30am and I was on my way to work. They were half parked in the street and half on the sidewalk. They had their car seats tilted all the way back and they were knocked out cold. One of 'em was snoring so loud I could hear it – even though their windows were rolled up.
10:05 am on April 7th, 2010 6
The reason the team is getting shut down is that, although they made a few arrests, what you don't know is that even fewer were actually guity. The team was set up as a way to monitor migrant labor workers and intimidate them so they don't protest labor policy.
11:30 am on April 7th, 2010 7
It's too bad they're getting shut down. They should be going after the unemployed Westerner criminals in Korea who are angry that they must depend on and work for Koreans whom they had always regarded as lower people to whites.
11:37 am on April 7th, 2010 8
What is the crime? Or do you just advocate throwing people who you do not like in prison?
12:06 pm on April 7th, 2010 9
Tom, its called "profiling in the US", and very much frowned upon. However, being a red neck Korean, I'm not surprised you would endorse it.
12:34 pm on April 7th, 2010 10
It's funny but you guys profile everybody anonymously on the internet, especially "them evil bad stupid Koreans", yet you claim it's 'frawned upon'. Right.
12:38 pm on April 7th, 2010 11
Take your meds like the doctor told you. You're off them again and it shows.
1:19 pm on April 7th, 2010 12
Gerry—no you didn't just insult Rednecks by raising Tom to their level?
1:23 pm on April 7th, 2010 13
"them evil bad stupid Koreans" you said it Tom, so I can only agree.
Not all of us frown on it. I LIKE racism to be out in the open.
That is why I like YOU Tom. You express your racism openly, if anonymously.
1:53 pm on April 7th, 2010 14
warning, thread hi-jacking
If anybody in Korea has access to, or can find, any English language stories on the events surrounding the ROKG seizing LIG/Nex1's purchasing records, hard drives and other financial documents last night, I would appreciate a link. I was told about it by my office in Korea and I can find stories online in Korean, but I need to find an English language version of the story. I deal with Korea's defense contractors and it appears from what I do know that the ROKG is finally cracking down on the corruption at LIG. The only US supplier I can find mentioned in the investigation so far is Raytheon Missile Systems. But I know they have seized records of their US purchasing office in New Jersey and are implementing a full-scale investigation into LIG's overseas purchasing procedures.
Sorry to drift off subject… mod, delete if you desire. I will understand.
Thanks,
3:09 pm on April 7th, 2010 15
"Western criminals unemployed" in Korea, that's a good one!
3:16 pm on April 7th, 2010 16
Isn't being a criminal a gainful occupation? They seem to gain a lot of dough out of it, after all…
2:34 am on April 8th, 2010 17
Haven't you heard, crime doesn't pay.
http://instantrimshot.com/
9:00 am on April 8th, 2010 18
LOL, my apologies. I should have said skinhead.