The elderly and those living in one of the least affluent districts in Seoul were at the highest risk of taking their own lives, government data showed Sunday. According to Statistics Korea, the suicide rate in Seoul stood at 24.7, meaning 24.7 Seoul residents in 100,000 committed suicide last year, as the nation’s average suicide rate was 27. By age group, Seoul citizens aged 60 or over had the highest suicide rates, with 50.3 seniors taking their own lives last year alone. The suicide rate for

The Justice Ministry said Tuesday that the U.S. government finalized the transfer of former South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan’s laundered money in the country to South Korea. The U.S. Justice Department returned $1.12 million in U.S. assets belonging to Chun’s family to the Korean government in the first such case as part of the Korean authorities’ drive to collect unpaid fines from the 84-year-old former dictator.Justice Minister Kim Hyun-woong confirmed the agreement with his U.S. counterpa

The police said Monday they had arrested all those accused in hit-and-run murders nationwide so far this year, prompted by public furor that erupted in January over the killing of a young father-to-be who was hit by a car and left on the street to die.As a result of stepped-up initial response to reports of hit-and-run, the police arrested a total of 125 people from January to October across the nation who have hit and killed somebody and then left the scene of a car accident.The total arrest ra