High school student tried to smuggle enough drugs to ``60,000 people''... sentenced to ``jail'' = South Korea

In South Korea, a high school student was sentenced to prison for trying to smuggle ketamine into the country, worth approximately 700 million won (approximately 77.87 million yen), enough to administer to 60,000 people.
At the Incheon District Court's sentencing hearing on the 12th, A (18 years old), a third-year high school student, was charged with violating the Act on Drug Control under the Act on Aggravated Punishment of Specified Crimes.
He was sentenced to a long-term sentence of six years to a short-term prison sentence of four years. The trial chamber stated, ``Drug-related crimes have a great impact on society due to their addictive nature, and must be dealt with strictly.''
The amount of ketamine he used was also high." He continued, ``It cannot be said that the degree of complicity in the crime was small, such as by providing his address to an accomplice and accepting a huge sum of money.''
"We took into consideration the fact that he has shown remorse and has no history of being subject to criminal punishment in the past," the statement said, explaining the reasons for the sentence. At the closing hearing held in August this year, the public prosecutor's office stated, ``It is possible to make a sentence under the juvenile justice system.''
The court requested that A be sentenced to between 10 years in prison and 5 years in prison as the maximum sentence. A received 2.9 grams of ketamine (hourly) from Germany on May 26th this year, hidden inside a baking machine.
He was arrested and charged with attempting to smuggle 740 million won (equivalent to approximately 82.32 million yen) as international cargo through Incheon International Airport.