{"id":298418,"date":"2025-12-04T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298418\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:02:10","slug":"south-korea-government-developing-app-showing-real-time-location-of-stalkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298418\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea: Government developing app showing real-time location of stalkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This makes it difficult for victims to determine the direction of the perpetrator, the justice ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Under the revised law, victims will be allowed to see their stalker’s location on a map with their smartphones, allowing them to evacuate to safety.<\/p>\n

Authorities track stalkers’ whereabouts using wearable electronic devices.<\/p>\n

The justice ministry said it was also working on integrating the tracking system into the national emergency hotline, so police could be deployed to protect victims as needed.<\/p>\n

This integration is expected to be completed next year, local media reported.<\/p>\n

Critics have voiced concern over the pervasiveness of stalking in South Korea, which they see as part of a wider problem of violence against women – many of whom have been secretly filmed by spy cameras<\/a> and faced hostile threats for being feminists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2022, public anger erupted over the murder of a young woman<\/a> by her male ex-colleague, who had been stalking her for years. Although she had reported him to the police, he was not detained or given a restraining order as authorities viewed him as “low risk”.<\/p>\n

In 2021, South Korea introduced an anti-stalking law that carries up to three years of jail for offenders and a maximum fine of 30 million Korean won ($20,400; \u00a315,300).<\/p>\n

In 2023, South Korea’s parliament revised the law to lower the barrier to prosecuting stalkers.<\/p>\n

The number of reports against stalkers have surged since then, from 7,600 in 2022 to more than 13,000 last year, according to data from the justice ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This makes it difficult for victims to determine the direction of the perpetrator, the justice ministry said in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-298418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}