Korea pushes to define threat against pets, digital spying as stalking

Forcing a romantic relationship, spying on someone's social media accounts and threatening another person's pet are to be newly defined as acts of stalking, upon passage of a law revision propelled by the South Korean government. The Ministry of Justice said Tuesday a revision of the Act on Punishment of Crime of Stalking had been proposed on Oct. 26. It aims to cover blind spots in the current version of the law, enacted in 2021, defining nine types of offenses as stalking. Such blind spots inc