Illegal drug offenses increased by 44% in one year…penetrated into daily life = South Korea

In South Korea, the number of illegal drug offenses arrested by police in 2023, the former year of the ``war on illegal drugs,'' increased by 44% compared to the previous year. President Yoon Seo-gyeol (Yun Seok-yue) is 2
This is the first result since the government declared at the Police Day commemoration ceremony on October 21, 2022, to ``wipe out illegal drug crimes that have permeated society.''
At the same time as the number of arrests for illegal drug offenses has increased, the alarm in society as a whole has become even louder. Especially last year, teenagers
The number of illegal drug offenses increased by 3.6 times from the previous year, reaching the 1,000 level, the highest ever, confirming the fact that the age of illegal drug offenses is decreasing.
In addition, crimes such as the ``Illegal Drug Incident in Gangnam School District'' where illegal drugs were provided to an unspecified number of people have increased social unrest.
Police said, ``Given that the crime rate behind the scenes is high, we will actively arrest supply crimes such as manufacturing, smuggling, and sales in order to deter them, and we will focus on improving the quality of the current situation.''
According to the National Police Agency on the 23rd, police arrested 17,817 illegal drug offenses in the past year. This is an increase of 43.8% (5430 people) compared to the previous year, 2022.
It is a value. The most eye-catching change is the increase in illegal drug offenses among teenagers. The number of illegal drug offenses by teenagers was in the mid-100s in 2019, but the number exceeded 200 in 2020, and since then
has maintained a level of 300 people. However, last year, 1,066 people were arrested, an increase of 263% from the previous year.