It began with a video. On the evening before the 2014 Isla Vista killings, Elliot Rodger looked into a camera and promised a “day of retribution,” a violent reckoning against a world he believed had denied him love, status, and happiness. The next day, he murdered six people and wounded fourteen others. In the manifesto he left behind, he framed his attack as a fair exchange: “They denied me a happy life, and in return I will take away all of their lives.” It would be easy to dismiss Rodger as a lone madman, a disturbed young man whose cruelty…

A shadow of grave misconduct has fallen over the Jeju Provincial Police, as a corporal from the Jeju Seobu Police Station finds himself at the center of a serious scandal involving the mishandling of missing person reports. The officer, whose identity has not been revealed, was arrested and is now facing charges of dereliction of duty and forgery of official records. The accusations against him are deeply troubling, suggesting a systemic failure in his duty to protect the vulnerable. He is accused of prematurely and falsely closing cases, a decision that, in at least two harrowing instances, may have directly…