South Korea Prepares Regulation That Sex Offenders Can No Longer Live Near Schools

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JAKARTA - The South Korean government plans to enact a law banning high-risk sex offenders from living near kindergartens or schools. The goal is that they are less likely to repeat the act.

The Ministry of Justice plans to submit the revised Electronic Monitoring Law to the National Assembly for approval in May. Everything is summarized in the 2023 policy plan submitted to President Yoon Suk Yeol, quoted from Yonhap News, Thursday, January 26.

Those who are released from prison and who are at high risk of committing sexual crimes again will be barred from living within a radius of up to 500 meters of childcare centers, kindergartens, or schools.

The sex offenders to be revised will be limited to those who have committed sexual crimes repeatedly or against children under the age of 13.

The revised plans come after a series of local community protests and demonstrations against the move by notorious child rapists to settle in their neighborhoods after being released from prison.