The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency carried out an intensive drunk driving crackdown on the 8th. In the operation, which lasted about two hours, a total of 11 drunk driving cases were detected, including two license cancellations and nine license suspensions.
From 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. that day, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency conducted drunk driving checks at four major roads in Seoul. The operation mobilized 116 traffic police officers and mobile patrol members, along with 35 patrol cars and motorcycles.
The crackdown took place around Gangnam Station, Gyodae Station, and Yangjae Station—areas with frequent drunk driving crashes—and near Heunginjimun in Jongno District. At Gangnam Sageori Station, the most violations were found, with one license cancellation and four license suspensions.
In the Heunginjimun area, two drunk drivers also received license suspensions. This is where a Japanese tourist mother and daughter were struck by a drunk driver recently. At Gyodae Intersection, officers detected one license cancellation and one license suspension, and at Yangjae Intersection, a driver with a suspended license was caught.
The operation was conducted through the "Seoul traffic re-design" campaign. Police said that with drunk driving crashes occurring in succession, including the recent death of a Japanese tourist, they are running a campaign to eradicate drunk driving. On the 2nd, a man in his 30s who drank three bottles of soju drove drunk and plowed onto the sidewalk at Heunginjimun Intersection, striking a Japanese tourist mother and daughter. In that crash, the mother in her 50s died and the daughter in her 30s was injured.
Police plan to continue large-scale, intensive crackdowns in areas where drunk driving crashes occur frequently.