Gov't to Announce Measures to Counter Anti-woman Crimes

The government will announce steps to counter violent crimes targeting females next week as witnessed in a recent random murder of a woman at a bar's bathroom in southern Seoul, the gender equality minister said Thursday.

"Everyone can be a victim (of violent crimes), and thus it's urgent to beef up the social safety network, especially for women, children and the elderly," Minister Kang Eun-hee said during a government-ruling party meeting on female safety.

"Countermeasures against violent anti-woman crimes will be made public on Wednesday at a ministerial meeting to be presided over by the prime minister," she said.

Kang's remarks came in the wake of the murder of the 23-year-old woman by a 34-year-old man with a knife at a bathroom in a...