A woman pays her respects as she displays a note near the entrance to a female lavatory at Sindang station in Seoul on Sept. 19, 2022. Seoul Metro employee Jeon Joo-hwan was sentenced Tuesday for stabbing his colleague to death in the metro station's women's public toilet the day before a court was set to sentence him on charges of stalking her. (Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images)
SEOUL —A South Korean court sentenced a man to 40 years in prison on Tuesday for stabbing a female colleague to death in a Seoul subway station — an act the court deemed "revenge murder."
The man, 31-year-old Jeon Joo-hwan, sent the victim unwanted text messages, then threatened her with videos he filmed with a hidden camera at their workplace restroom.
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