A 27-year-old woman, who asked to be identified only by her surname Lee, said she did not see it coming when her boyfriend, whom she had planned to marry, started obsessing over her ever since they started living together.
The number of stalking suspects apprehended by police has already exceeded 7,000 this year, police data showed Tuesday, indicating that the dangers of such crimes remain unchanged, though nearly a year has passed since the murder of a subway station worker by a colleague who had stalked the victim for years.
For three years, a South Korean man stalked a younger colleague, harassing her with hundreds of phone calls and messages and illegally filming her after she rejected his advances. She reported him to the police, complained of stalking, and the case was before the courts. On Sept 14, a day before he was to be sentenced, the man allegedly followed.
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Barely a year after South Korea's anti-stalking law came into effect, the government is reviewing the legislation following a spate of high-profile murders of women at the hands of their stalkers. President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday (Sept 23) ordered the justice ministry to amend the law, after a subway worker was recently killed by her stalker in yet another case.