A woman in her 50s has been arrested for attacking a psychiatrist with a knife at Severance Hospital in Sinchon.
According to Yonhap News Agency, Judge Park Seok-geun of the Seoul Western District Court held a pre-arrest interrogation for the suspect, identified as A, on November 7. The judge issued a warrant for her arrest, citing concerns that she might flee.
A is accused of injuring Professor Kang, a psychiatrist, by wielding a knife in the hospital's fifth-floor consultation room at approximately 4:35 p.m. on November 4.
At the time, Professor Kang was calling another patient into the consultation room when A reportedly followed the patient inside and attacked. Professor Kang sustained a 5-centimeter-long laceration and received treatment in the emergency room, but his life is not in danger.
The Seodaemun Police initially arrested A on charges of special injury. However, based on her statement that she brought a kitchen knife from home in a shopping bag, authorities later determined that there was intent to kill and changed the charge to attempted murder.
During police questioning, A reportedly expressed anger towards Severance Hospital's doctors for allegedly preventing her from receiving treatment at another hospital. She claimed, "In 2018, the psychiatry department at Yonsei University made me diabetic by not providing internal medicine treatment." When asked if she felt remorse for her actions, she did not respond.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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