As she was walking along a roadside in Myeongmok-dong, Seoul, a 21-year-old office worker by the name of Kim was robbed of her handbag by a man following behind her on a motorcycle at 8:20 a.m. Wednesday.

Kim reported the incident to police and told an officer who arrived on the scene what the perpetrator looked like and in which direction he fled. Nor did she forget to mention that in her bag was a cell phone equipped with a function with which one could track the location of the handset using her boyfriend's cell phone.

Police immediately tried using the function and confirmed that Kim's cell phone was still in the area. At around 9:00 a.m., police caught a 23-year-old man by the name of Park in a nearby residential ally.

Police said, "Park was riding a motorcycle near the very spot where the incident took place without knowing Kim's location tracker mobile phone was in the bag." In addition, they said, Park stole the motorcycle he used in the crime from somewhere in the area just before snatching Kim's handbag.

(Han Jae-hyun, rookie@chosun.com )