By Park Si-soo
A man in his 60s attempted to set himself alight to head off his daughter's divorce, police said Thursday.
Police caught the man, surnamed Kim, 61, at a mill house in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, on Wednesday. He had poured gasoline over himself and threatened to ignite it, yelling “Divorce will destroy my daughter's life.”
The mill house was run by his daughter's parents-in-law. Police found that the woman faces a divorce suit for unidentified domestic issues.
The man told police he did the threatening act in a fit of anger after learning a divorce suit was filed against his daughter.