Police to file lawsuit for damages against contributor of murder teaser message = South Korea

Korean police have decided to file a lawsuit for damages against those who posted murder teaser messages on SNS. Public authorities are investigating dozens of murder teaser messages posted daily.
It seems that it is due to the judgment that the money is wasted. The Korean National Police Agency told reporters on the 24th, "The police will cooperate with the Ministry of Justice and other related departments to strictly punish those who wrote the murder teaser message.
In addition to serious criminal punishment, we will actively pursue civil lawsuits for compensation for substantial amounts of damages, including national damages caused by the waste of public power." In addition, "Recently, there have been a series of online
Murder teaser messages have been posted, not only causing damage to people's daily lives, but also consuming a large amount of police power and administrative resources."
According to the South Korean National Police Agency, 462 murder teaser messages were confirmed by 9 am on this day, and the poster 2
16 people were arrested. Of these, 21 were detained. Compared to the previous day, the number of posts increased by 7, and the number of arrested suspects increased by 3. A suspect has been detained for the first time in six days since the 17th of this month.
The day before, the Bundang Police Station in Gyeonggi Province detained a suspect who wrote on the Internet community that he would kill a developer of a game company.
On the 21st, on the police blind site (a closed SNS site that can only be used by staff),
Mr. A, a company employee in his 30s, who posted on a police official's account, "Wielding a knife at Exit 1 of Gangnam Station," was arrested immediately. At 2:30 pm on this day, Mr. A interrogated the suspect before arrest at the Seoul Eastern District Court (
warrant examination).