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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Justin McCurry

Calls for stalking law overhaul in South Korea as woman’s murder shocks nation

A man writes a note at Sindang Station in Seoul, South Korea, where a woman was fatally stabbed, allegedly by her stalker.
A man writes a note at Sindang Station in Seoul, South Korea, where a woman was fatally stabbed, allegedly by her stalker. Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images

The murder of a South Korean woman who had been stalked by her alleged killer for years has sparked outrage and demands for changes in the law to better protect women.

The woman’s murder in a bathroom at the subway station where she worked earlier this month has shocked South Korea, coming a day before her alleged attacker, named by police as 31-year-old Jeon Joo-hwan, had been due to be sentenced for stalking her.

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