Wrong Enforcement on Roads with School Zone Lifted... 400 Million KRW in Fines Imposed

Incheon Yeonsu Police Station "Refund Procedure to Proceed"

A police station in Incheon mistakenly applied school zone standards on a road where the school zone had been lifted, resulting in the imposition of thousands of speeding fines totaling over 450 million won for about two months.

According to the police on the 14th, the Yeonsu Police Station in Incheon enforced speed violations on 6,500 occasions from May 12 to July 27 using mobile speed measurement equipment on a road at 42 Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, which had been removed from the school zone as of May 11 last year.

During the enforcement period, Yeonsu Police Station applied the 30 km/h speed limit standard on the road and imposed fines of 70,000 to 100,000 won on violating drivers. The total amount of incorrectly imposed fines exceeds 450 million won.

On the first day of the revised Road Traffic Act, which includes no-parking zones in child protection areas and mandates special traffic safety education for drivers who cause traffic accidents in these zones, students are attending school at an elementary school in Seoul on the 21st. Photo by Mun Honam munonam@

It was found that Yeonsu Police Station had been enforcing the rules without knowing that the school zone had been lifted. There were also signs of administrative confusion, such as sending refund notices to those fined and then suspending the process.

Incheon City and the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency explained that although they informed the police station and local government about the lifting of the school zone, the responsible department at Yeonsu Police Station did not properly receive the related information, leading to this situation.

A Yeonsu Police Station official said, "After requesting an authoritative interpretation from related organizations such as Incheon City, it was concluded that the school zone had already been lifted last year," adding, "We will promptly proceed with the refund process."

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