Police said Friday they have arrested a Korean-American man for allegedly taking upskirt photographs of a woman earlier this month.
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The man, identified only by his surname Kim, was caught in the act of taking unauthorized photographs under a woman’s skirt near a subway station in southwestern Seoul on June 1, said Cho Chang-bae, the chief crime investigator at Yeongdeungpo Police Station.
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Kim fled after the woman noticed and screamed, but he was apprehended by a police officer who had just finished his shift and was on the scene.
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“I often watch people closely on my way home since there have been similar incidents near the station,” Kang Jeong-mo, the police officer who arrested Kim, said. “I would have missed it had I arrived at the scene just seconds after.”
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Kim, who barely speaks Korean, has demanded that he be allowed to return to the United States during the investigation, according to police.
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Kim was not immediately available for comment and is currently not in police custody.
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Cho said the police have referred the case to the prosecutors and asked them to charge Kim with violation of laws on sexual violence. (Yonhap)
