[2025 Audit] Yoon Hojoong: "We Will Actively Respond to Requests to Increase Police Attach?s in Cambodia"

Q&A at the Public Administration and Security Committee Audit
Request for Additional Police Attach?s Rejected by the Ministry Last Year

As the aftermath of the Cambodian Korean kidnapping case intensifies, Minister of the Interior and Safety Yoon Hojoong stated, "There has been a request this year as well to increase the number of police attach?s in Cambodia, and we plan to respond actively."

On October 14, during the National Assembly’s Public Administration and Security Committee audit, Minister Yoon responded to Assemblyman Yang Bunam of the Democratic Party, who pointed out that the Ministry of the Interior and Safety had not accepted the request to increase the number of attach?s in Cambodia in line with the Yoon Suk-yeol administration’s policy of streamlining the number of public officials.

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Assemblyman Yang expressed concern, saying, "The number of kidnapping and confinement cases involving Koreans in Cambodia increased from 21 cases in 2023 to 221 cases last year, which is a tenfold increase. In the first half of this year alone, there have already been 213 cases, so the total for the year is likely to exceed 400."

Minister Yoon replied, "There was a special presidential directive to establish a 'Korean Desk' in Cambodia, similar to those already in place in Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam, in order to protect our citizens from crime, and we are implementing this accordingly."

He added, "There was a special presidential directive to establish a 'Korean Desk' in Cambodia, like those already established by the police in Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam, to protect our citizens from crime, and we are carrying this out accordingly." The Korean Desk refers to police officers dispatched overseas who are dedicated to handling crimes targeting Korean nationals.

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