“Full investigation into related crime deaths and analysis of root cause”

Stalking Eradication Countermeasures Committee launched... Minseok Kim "Relationship crime is a serious crime"

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Ahn Jung-hoon = On the 4th, the Democratic Party of Korea launched the 'Dating, Domestic Violence and Stalking Eradication Committee' and began discussing ways to prevent relationship crimes.

Kim Min-seok, leader of the Democratic Party, encouraged the special committee's activities at the launch ceremony held at the National Assembly on this day, saying, "Stalking, dating violence, and family violence have gone beyond the realm of private conflict and have now become serious crimes."

Representative Kim said, “Ending a relationship with someone you used to date has become something that requires accepting threats,” and suggested, “Relational crimes have now become a situation where we have to move to a proactive prevention system. We need to strengthen the victim protection system, and we also need to strengthen the management and response to offenders who are at high risk of reoffending.”

Rep. Lee Soo-jin, the ruling party secretary of the National Assembly Gender Equality and Family Committee, who serves as the secretary of the special committee, said, "The committee will conduct a full investigation into death cases of related crimes and analyze the root cause," and added, "We will jointly check whether the measures to protect victims and the monitoring and management of perpetrators are effective in the field."

He added, “We will focus on strengthening prevention and protective measures to prevent further victims from relationship crimes such as dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking,” and added, “The Democratic Party will work with the government to establish an integrated and comprehensive response system.”

Rep. Song Ok-ju, who co-chaired the special committee, promised, "We will closely examine the response process from reporting to protective measures and investigation, focusing on major intimate relationship crime death cases, and find points that need improvement."

Rep. Song said, “There are about 100 proposed amendments related to domestic violence and stalking, most of which are pending in the National Assembly.” He added, “The special committee will take care to the end to ensure that pending and newly proposed bills are promptly processed.”

Former prosecutor Seo Ji-hyun, who served as co-chairman along with Rep. Song, also delivered a draft of the relationship crime supplementary bill to Representative Kim at the meeting.