By Bahk Eun-ji



The government will lower the age of criminal responsibility to 13 from the current 14 in a bid to prevent rising juvenile crime, the Ministry of Education said Thursday. Those aged 14 and younger cannot be held criminally responsible under current laws.





The Ministry of Education announced a set of measures to prevent juvenile violence, including the revised bill of lowering the age of criminal responsibility from the current 14 to 13. /Gettyimagesbank