{"id":106045,"date":"2026-08-01T03:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T03:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/106045\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T03:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T03:45:10","slug":"police-catch-320-drunk-drivers-in-one-night-nationwide-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/106045\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Catch 320 Drunk Drivers in One Night Nationwide Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Late in the afternoon on the 13th, Jeju police and autonomous police conduct a joint drunk-driving crackdown across Jeju City. Yonhap News - Seoul Economic Daily Society News from South Korea\" title=\"Police Catch 320 Drunk Drivers in One Night Nationwide Crackdown\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-auto rounded-sm\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:contain;object-position:center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rcv.YNA.20260714.PYH2026071403150005600_P1.jpg\"\/>Late in the afternoon on the 13th, Jeju police and autonomous police conduct a joint drunk-driving crackdown across Jeju City. Yonhap News<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Police conducted a nationwide crackdown on drunk driving to mark the summer vacation season, catching 320 cases in a single night. Authorities launched the preemptive operation, anticipating that the risk of drunk driving would increase amid greater travel to holiday destinations and more outdoor activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">The Korean National Police Agency said on the 1st that a drunk driving crackdown conducted nationwide on the night of the 31st of last month resulted in a total of 320 cases, including 185 license revocations, 129 license suspensions, and 6 refusals to take a breathalyzer test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">The crackdown deployed 4,225 personnel, including traffic officers and local police, along with 1,580 patrol cars. Police focused their enforcement on 733 locations with a high likelihood of drunk driving, such as areas near holiday destinations, entertainment districts, and highway interchanges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">To increase the effectiveness of the crackdown, police also carried out mobile &#8220;spot-style&#8221; checks that changed locations at set intervals. The aim was to move away from fixed-location enforcement, making it harder for drivers to predict checkpoints and thereby heightening the deterrent effect on drunk driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">A separate crackdown was also conducted in Seoul. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency deployed 171 officers and 92 patrol cars at 34 locations across the city from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. on the 31st of last month to crack down on drunk driving. The operation resulted in a total of 8 cases, including 4 license revocations and 4 license suspensions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Police plan to continue special crackdowns in preparation for a possible rise in drunk driving during the summer vacation season. The Korean National Police Agency has designated the two-month period from the 1st of last month to the 31st of this month as a special crackdown period for summer vacation drunk driving, conducting nationwide simultaneous crackdowns every Friday along with two or more crackdowns per week by each provincial police agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">From the 1st to the 30th of last month, a total of 8,742 cases of drunk driving were caught nationwide. License revocations were the most numerous at 5,604 cases, followed by 2,923 license suspensions and 215 refusals to take a breathalyzer test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late in the afternoon on the 13th, Jeju police and autonomous police conduct a joint drunk-driving crackdown across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54661,14199,47298,1416,54660,30313,112,54659],"class_list":["post-106045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seoul","tag-breathalyzer-test","tag-drunk-driving-crackdown","tag-dui-korea","tag-korean-national-police-agency","tag-license-revocation","tag-road-safety","tag-seoul","tag-summer-vacation-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}