With low murder rates and strict firearm controls, South Korea has long been considered safe but after a recent series of stabbing rampages some are calling for greater police powers and harsher sentences for violent crimes.
Dr Yoon said statistics showed a rise in the number of socially isolated young people in South Korea.
Dr Yoon said the Korean government did not have systematic data collection on indiscriminate attack crimes, making it hard to determine whether there was a rise in the rates of such crimes in South Korea.Following the attacks, President Yoon Suk-yeol called for a mobilisation of "all possible police forces" against potential copycat crimes.
In a "special police operation" launched following the attacks, police were allowed to "actively use physical force, including the use of firearms or stun guns" as thousands were dispatched to public sites. "If you refer to the research that has been done in Western countries including Australia, the effect of the death penalty [on preventing such crimes] is not very good," she said.
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