Thursday, September 16, 2004

-E-Documents to Replace Prosecution Paperwork / The Korea Times, 15 Sep 2004

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200409/kt2004091522363712070.htm
Moon Gwang-lip
"Paper documents used in the prosecution process will be replaced with electronic ones as the Ministry of Justice plans to upgrade recording of the criminal process, it said Wednesday.
According to the plan, the ministry will replace or duplicate every paper necessary for the legal process, such as arrest warrants and written evidence, with electronic data. Also it will endow multimedia data, such as human voice or video images, with the validity to be used as evidence in the legal process.
The law-enforcement ministry said it will also create provisions to obligate each government organization to share administrative information.
``Because the relevant ministries haven��t allowed other organizations to share information of foreigners or immigration, much unnecessary money has been spent,���� said an official at the justice ministry. "