Original Korean article is here.

Demands are rising for a policy response to the yearly trend of increasing numbers of subway groping incidents.

On August 11 the office of Grand National Party National Assembly member Jin Yeong released the results of a study, titled 서울 지하철범죄현황, which found that there had been 546 people reported as groping passengers on the Seoul subway through the first half of this year.

That is 81 percent of the 671 caught during all of last year. It also surpasses the figures from 2007 (549) and 2008 (460).

The line where the most people were caught was Line 2, with 314 arrests, followed by Line 1 (87), Line 4 (72), and Line 7 (18).

The  transfer point of Sadang Station saw 86 people being caught, followed by Seoul Station (70), Seoul University Station (60), and Seoul Nat’l. University of Education Station (47).

By age, 246 offenders were aged 30-39, 145 from 20 – 29, and 104 from 40 – 49. 266 were office workers, 45 were students, five were public servants and three were in the military.

234 of the crimes occurred between 8 and 10am, and 115 between 6 and 8pm, the times of greatest risk.