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Objectives : Alcohol’s harm to others harms not only individual drinkers but also third parties and causes many socioeconomic costs. Although several previous studies have identified factors related to the occurrence of alcohol’s harm to others, the characteristics of alcohol‘s harm to others are largely unknown. For a more effective policy, it is important to understand the current status of alcohol’s harm to others. Therefore, this study aimed to understand the current status and types of alcohol’s harm to others by place of alcohol-regulated places using newspaper articles. Methods : Articles from August 16, 2021 to August 16, 2022 were searched through a news search analysis site called ‘Bigkinds’. Search keywords were ‘drinking’ or ‘drunken’ or ‘alcohol-regulated places’ in combination with the words related to alcohol-regulated places. The year, the place, and the type of even of alcohol’s harm to others were extracted from the articles. Frequency analyses and a chi-squared test were used. Results : From the initial search, 5,182 articles were found, of which 222 articles were included in the anlaysis excluding duplicate articles and articles containing political content. Forty eight percent of the events of alcohol’s harm to others occurred in the metropolitan area. The events of alcohol’s harm to others occurred more frequently in non-regulated places than in regulated places (68.5% vs 31.5%). Violence (36.9%), drunken driving (28.0%), and disturbance (13.7%) are the most frequent types of harm. The types of harm were statistically different between the regulated and non-regulated places. Conclusions : The study results have shown that alcohol’s harm to others occurs more frenquently in non-regulated places than in regulated places. We also found that felonies such as murder and robbery as well as misdemeanors inlcuding violence, disturbance occur in alcohol-regulated places. These results suggest that alcohol regulations need to be strengthened in alcohol-regulated places and alcohol-regulated places need to be expanded to some of the non-regulated places.