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The table below indicates participating mass media for the
the missing child. In principle, the owners of public stores
missingchildren
near schools or some spots easily approachable by children
can serve as Child Safety Houses for the police, who can
Massmedia
Alerttype
further decide if the designation is qualified or not. However,
Broadcasting(3)
KBS,KTV,mbn
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the reality is that only the police is equipped to take care of
such cases. Lee Yoon-Ho, a Professor at the Department of
cityofSeoul
Public
Abduction/
MinistryofLand,Transport
Police Administration, said, “We have not had enough time
institution(2)
Disappearance
andMaritimeAffairs
to run Child Safety Houses efficienty. Because the crisis
KyungHyang,DongA,
situation about kidnapping has already spread to public
Newspaper(18)
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MaeKyung,ChoSun,Herald,etc.
awareness.SoweneedtosetupChildSafetyHousequicklyas
Mobile
a countermeasure. However, measuring and managing Child
Abduction/
Communication
SKT,KTF,LGT
Disappearance
SafetyHouseinashort-termperioddoesnotmakerunningthe
Agency(3)
systemefficient.”Ifthepreviousownerretiresaftermanaging
Naver,Daum,Neowiz,Yahoo,
Abduction/
Internetsite(6)
a Child Safety House, the newly assigned owner usually does
Paran,Nate
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not have a great knowledge about the system. As a part time
Financial
KukMin,ShinHan,NongHyup,
Abduction/
workerinastoredoesnotfullyunderstandthewholeaffairsof
institution(5)
Woori,Kiup
Disappearance
the store, so the new owner of a Child Safety House does not
haveafullunderstandingofhisorherjobwhenheorshestart.
WeakPointofthePreventionProgram
The Ministry of Health and Welfare, an institution related
One owner of a stationery store said, “I saw an elementary
to children (i.e. kindergarten files for education), educates
school student bullied by his friends near my store. Since the
children to prevent their being lost. The National center for
situationlookedurgentandserioustome,Icalledthepoliceto
missing children accepts applications from institutions for
report. However, when the police arrived, the students denied
the educational prevention program and sends a group of
that they were involved in such a case and it became hard to
specialists to educate. They educate children through singing
provethefact.Also,sincetherearemanycriticalincidentsthat
songs, presenting puppet shows, or explaining with pictures.
occurinalleys,IdoubtthatChildSafetyHousescanfunction
Children are taught things such as “Let your parents know
well.”
whereyouaregoing”,“Walkalongmainroadswithafriend”,
Expertsassociatedwithmissingchildrensaiduniformlythat
“Don’t follow stranger”, “Don’t respond to calls or knockings
the punishment penalty for such cases is too feeble. Indeed,
when you are home alone” etc.. Then supposing a kidnapping
manycrimesareassignedamuchlighterpunishmentthanthey
situation,thespecialiststeachchildrentosaytheirownname,
shouldget,duetocomplexconditionstheyareinvolved.
phone number and names of their parents, by using slogans
InOctober2007,oneelementaryschoolstudentwasabducted
such as “Do not move when you get lost from your parents”,
and the abductor demanded a large amount of money from
“Memorize your own name, your parents’ names and your
the parents of the child. However, the abductor set the child
phone number”, “Ask help from adults near you or notify the
free when he sensed the investigation, which made him
policeusingapublictelephone”.
sentencedtoonly6years.AnothercaseoccurredinDaeguin
But,arepresentativeoftheNationalOrganizationofFinding
July2009.Inthiscase,thechildescapedhimselfandwasnot
Missing Children and Family said, “Prevention education
hurt at all, so the abductor was sentenced to no more than 5
is somewhat remote from reality; it is indeed far from the
years. In cases of abandonment, the parents who abandoned
actualcircumstanceswhenabductionreallyoccurs.”However,
their child on purpose are considered criminals, but they are
kidnapping, indeed, takes place more often by using mild
usually let off only with a warning. Many authorities claim
trickorgivingasenseofclosenessratherthantakingthechild
thatthecriminalsthinklightlyofcommittingagainstinnocent
by force. In addition, the society teaches children that they
children.
should respect and treat elders politely, which makes it hard
forchildrentoexpressnegativeimpressionsagainstadultswho
HowtoPromoteEfficiencyinDealingwiththe
actuallyapproachthemtohurtthem.
Incidents
Thepolicehaverunabout25,000ChildSafetyHousesacross
The Police Agency for Missing Children is made for
the nation since 2008. However, management of the Child
professional investigations. However, since the police in the
Safety Houses is too poor to be truly valuable in caring for
present are not well-prepared as technical investigators, the
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