By Lee Hyo-sik
A 30-year-old man who works at a discount store in the Mapo district of Sangam-dong has been arrested for stabbing a 35-year-old coworker with a sharp object multiple times, the police said Monday.
The Mapo Police Station said that the man, identified only by his surname Yoon, stabbed the colleague named Lee in the chest and the face several times. At the time of the incident, Lee was smoking a cigarette in an employee lounge at around 6:30 Sunday morning.
Other employees stopped Yoon from further harming Lee, saving the latter’s life. Lee was taken to hospital for treatment.
Yoon told police officers that he saw a devil in Lee, saying that he could not help but kill him. Yoon is found to have been receiving psychotherapy for the past eight years.
Police sought an arrest warrant on charges of attempted murder.