Man nabbed for posting bomb threat against Yoon's inauguration ceremony

Final touches are under way in front of the National Assembly in Seoul, May 9, one day ahead of the presidential inauguration ceremony. Yonhap

The National Police Agency (NPA) said a man his late 20s was apprehended Tuesday on charges of uploading an online post talking about a bomb attack at the inauguration ceremony of President Yoon Suk-yeol.

The suspect, whose identity has been withheld, allegedly wrote the post on a popular community website, Bobaedream, Monday night, seeking an accomplice to detonate a grenade at the ceremony, the National Police Agency said.

He was detained at an unidentified location in the central North Chungcheong Province and was being transferred to Seoul for questioning, officials said.

In the post, the suspect also mentioned Yun Bong-gil, a national independence fighter who killed high-ranking Japanese officials by setting off a bomb during Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the Korean Peninsula.

The post, with more than 60 comments, has been deleted, according to the NPA.

The case has been assigned to the Seocho Police Station for formal investigation. (Yonhap)