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Parents who did not pay child support after divorce were sued by the police.
This is the first case since the law was amended in July last year to criminalize non-payment of child support.
Reporter Park Se-won reports.
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Mr. A raised two children alone after divorce in 2010.
Mr. A has not received a penny in child support from her ex-husband in her 12 years.
He earns 1 million won a month, and 120 million won in child support he has never received.
The court ordered her ex-husband to have her driver's license suspended and to be put in jail, but to no avail.
[Mr. A / Victim of non-payment of child support: (I received an order of detention) I just went and lived for 10 days.
She thought that if she lived five or six days, she would pay back child support.
But they didn't.]
Mr. B, who divorced five years ago and raised two sons.
He claims that his ex-wife, who lives in Gangnam, Seoul, is economically active and drives a foreign car, has not paid child support since 2018.
[Mr. B / Victim of non-payment of child support: The maintenance cost is quite high enough to carry a BMW.
And no money
It turns out that they receive all their wages in cash.]
The two sued their respective ex-spouses to the police for violating the Child Support Compliance Act.
As the Child Support Implementation Act was amended in July last year, a person who has not paid child support who has been ordered to detain by the court can be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 10 million won if he or she does not pay child support within one year.
This is the first time a criminal complaint has been filed since the amendment of the law.