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Yesterday (11th) was the first Friday night after restaurants and other business hours were relaxed to 11 pm.
Police cracked down on alcohol all over Seoul, but not one or two people were drinking and driving.
Correspondent Kim Ki-tae.
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street in Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul last night.
Drivers are caught one after another in unexpected drunken crackdowns.
[Enforcement Police Officer: Can you see the 0.115?
Sir, this is the number of license revocations.]
He complained that he was moving the parked car for a while, and
[License suspended driver A: He was pulling the car out of the parking lot.
(Where is the parking lot?) Here is the road in Apgujeong.]
They say they can't accept the measurement result, and they take blood and take a blood test to measure the alcohol level.
[Enforcement Police Officer: 0.166 The number of license revocations.
You can draw blood for this number.]
[License suspended driver B: I'll draw blood.
(Compared to the amount of alcohol consumed?) A lot.
I will draw blood.]
The police said they had caught 13 drunk driving cases in Seoul alone by 5 am today.
The police believe that the number of drunk driving will increase as restaurant and pub business hours are extended by one hour to 11:00 p.m., and they plan to strengthen crackdowns in the future.
[Song Gook-seop/Seoul Gangnam Police Station Traffic Safety Team 3 Team Leader: Drunk driving is a felony that takes away happiness from not only my family but also other people's families.
We will pursue and arrest them until the end and bring them to justice.] The
police plan to punish the passengers in a drunk driving vehicle as an aide, while also promoting the seizure of the vehicle for habitual drunk drivers.