Busan police said Lee Jae-myung suffered “a one-centimeter laceration to his neck,” that he “remained conscious and the bleeding was minor,” according to the daily “Chosun Ilbo.”
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South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck on Tuesday, January 2, while speaking to journalists in Busan, in the southeast of the country.
After visiting the site of a new airport, the 59-year-old politician was walking in the port city, surrounded by a swarm of journalists, when a man stabbed him in the neck, according to images broadcast by local television .
The attacker was arrested
The person then collapsed to the ground while several people rushed to help him and cover his injury. He was taken to Busan National University Hospital in the south of the city by ambulance and then by helicopter, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said. He was then still conscious. The attacker was later arrested, according to Yonhap.
Busan police said Lee Jae-myung was suffering “a one-centimeter laceration to the neck”that he “remained conscious and the hemorrhage was minor”according to the daily Chosun Ilbo. Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung lost to conservative and current South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol in the 2022 presidential election.
