Busan News

Police Carry Out On-site Inspection in Busan Rape and Murder Case
Arirang News
Police carried out a two-hour on-site inspection Tuesday morning in the vicious rape and murder case of a 13-year-old Busan girl after 33-year-old suspect ...

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'You Deserve to Die' a Neighbor Shouts
Korea Times
By Park Si-soo A crowd of citizens in Sasang, a residential district in Busan, were indignant as a police vehicle carrying Kim Kil-tae, the prime suspect in ...

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Kim reenacts crimes at scene
Korea Herald
The Busan police yesterday conducted a crime scene investigation on Kim Gil-tae, a suspect in the rape and murder of a teenage girl in Busan. ...

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200 rape suspects remain at large
Korea Herald
With the nation angered over a rape and murder case in Busan, over 200 rape suspects turned out to run free in the streets, having escaped police ...

Kim Beom-soo under fire for shock-jock comment
Korea Herald
... at a time when the nation has been currently riveted by the case of Kim Gil-tae, who on Monday admitted to raping and murdering a teenage girl in Busan. ...

Two S.Korea budget carriers to extend flights to Guam and Japan
Trading Markets (press release)
Two South Korean budget carriers -- JIN AIR CO. and AIR BUSAN CO. -- will fly to Guam and the Japanese cities of Osaka and Fukuoka between late March and ...

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Korean dealers raise domestic HRC prices
Steel Business Briefing (subscription)
Domestic prices of hot rolled coil quoted by Korean distributors have edged up slightly since late last week, following rumours that local mills are ...

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`Masan Protest Was Starting Point of Korean Democracy`
동아일보
“The noble values of freedom, democracy and justice grew into the April 19 (1960) Revolution, caused the Busan-Masan resistance movement, ...

Builders Buying Private Weather Data to Cut Costs
동아일보
Danish weather service provider DHI is participating in the construction of the Busan-Geoje Bridge, a project led by Daewoo E&C. To build a 3.7-kilometer ...

Seoul, Busan Districts in Financial Hub Plans
The Chosun Ilbo
Seoul's Yeouido and Busan's Munhyeon were designated by the Financial Services Commission on Wednesday as future financial centers. ...

Kim Kil-tae Confesses to Murdering 13-Year-Old Girl
Arirang News
The 33-year-old man suspected of raping and murdering a teenage girl in Busan has allegedly confessed to the crime. Police say Kim Kil-tae made his ...

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Commodity Watch: Oil slides further
BloombergUTV
Falls in LME copper stocks and rise in cancelled warrants ratios in Busan, offered support. Domestic commodity counters maintained softer tone tracking ...

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Korean TV crew reports on water-saving initiative
Get Surrey
The KBS Busan production company teamed up with Sutton and East Surrey Water in a TV feature looking at how to deal with limited water resources for a ...

Kim Kil-tae Confesses to Murdering 13-Year-Old Girl
Arirang News
The 33-year-old man suspected of raping and murdering a teenage girl in Busan has allegedly confessed to the crime. Police say Kim Kil-tae made his ...

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Eclectic filmmaker gets French honor: Tim Burton made officer of arts and letters
Gaea Times (blog)
South Korea's Pusan International Film Festival said in a statement Friday it will show 10 of To's films and host a master class led by the 54-year-old Hong ...

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US diplomat flees fraud charges in South Korea
Earthtimes (press release)
Dario Tomas, 51, who worked in customs in the south-eastern port city of Busan, left the country March 3, two days before his diplomatic immunity was to be ...

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DHS Crook Took it on the Lam, Feds Say
Courthouse News Service
Dario Tomas, 51, of Oceanside, took it on the lam from Busan when his scheme was discovered, prosecutors say. Tomas promised investors "that their money ...

Police to Crackdown on Serious Sex Crimes
Korea Times
... follows severe public criticism facing police for its incompetence shown in handling the rape and murder case of a 13-year-old Busan middle school girl. ...

Suspect Kim Confesses to Rape, Murder
Korea Times
By Park Si-soo Kim Hui-woong, head officer at Sasang Police Station in Busan, said Monday that Kim Kil-tae, the chief suspect in the rape and murder of a ...

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Knowledge Without Hope of Evidence
Trading Markets (press release)
There is a prologue that describes the acquisition of a poison in Pusan, South Korea, in 1952, but no epilogue. Instead, the Fifth Part is labelled Poison ...