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Seo indicted for beating wife
By Lee Kyung-min
Seo Se-won
By Lee Kyung-min
TV personality Seo Se-won has been indicted on charges of assaulting his wife during an argument, the prosecution said Monday.
Surveillance camera recordings showed Seo hitting his wife Seo Jung-hee in May in the lobby of a building in Cheongdam-dong, southern Seoul.
He allegedly pushed her, and choked her because she insisted on going to a different church than he does, the prosecution said.
When the wife fell to the floor after he pushed her, he allegedly dragged her by the leg from an elevator.
As a result, the wife sustained an injury that required three weeks of hospital treatment.
In September, the Seoul Family Court granted her request for a six-month extension of a restraining order against her husband. After 32 years of marriage, she filed for a divorce in July.
The court is currently reviewing the case.