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Seoul Files Criminal Complaints Against 5 Serial 119 Prank Callers

Summary by The Korea Times
For the emergency dispatchers staffing Seoul’s 119 hotline — Korea’s equivalent of 911 — every second counts. Yet over the past year, a handful of...

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The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 13th that it has filed criminal charges against five habitual callers who obstructed firefighting operations over the past year by repeatedly calling 119 and failing to answer, or requesting assistance returning home while intoxicated. The five individuals repeatedly made ‘prank or false’ 119 calls and doors over the one-year period from September last year to August this year.

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The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 13th that it has filed criminal charges against five habitual callers on charges of obstruction of business for interfering with operations by making 8,710 phone calls and sending text messages to 119 over the course of a year. This is the first time the Seoul Metropolitan Government has filed criminal charges against habitual 119 callers.

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Yoo Han-ju = The Seoul Metropolitan Government is criminally... 5 habitual callers who disrupted situation management operations by repeatedly reporting a total of 8,710 times to 119 over the past year

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Thursday, November 12, 2026.
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