By Kang Seung-woo
A naked intruder accused of masturbating at Dongduk Women's University in Seoul has been detained.
According to the Jongam Police Station, Tuesday, police caught the 28-year-old, identified as Park, near an apartment at Gwangjin-gu, eastern Seoul, on Monday night after securing and analyzing surveillance footage captured around the university.
Police plan to have the prosecution request an arrest warrant for him for trespassing and circulating obscene materials online.
Park, who intruded on the campus, Oct. 6, recorded himself masturbating and took naked pictures of himself in empty classrooms and corridors of the school building before posting them on Twitter.
As part of a move to suspend his Twitter account, police sent a search and seizure warrant to the headquarters of the San Francisco-based social media platform.
Meanwhile, on the news of Park's detention, a public petition posted to the website of Cheong Wa Dae is demanding his identity be revealed to the public.
“We need to know the face and identity of such a pervert who committed such shameful acts at an educational facility to avoid the recurrence of this happening again,” the petitioner said.
As of Tuesday, more than 14,000 people signed the petition. The presidential office makes it a rule to reply to a petition that gains more than 200,000 signatures within 30 days of a proposal being registered.