By Park Si-soo
Staff reporter
A native English teacher was detained on suspicion of raping a barmaid, police said Sunday.
According to police, an America citizen, a native English teacher at a private language institute, is accused of sexually assaulting a Korean barmaid in a public restroom of a building in Dunsan-dong, Daejeon, at 3 a.m. Saturday.
Police said the victim didn’t want the investigation to go further in exchange for compensation from the American.
Under the law, police investigations into a rape case can only continue with the victim’s approval, meaning that the probe must be halted.
But police will inform the American’s workplace of the case to hold the offender accountable for his crime.
Earlier, a British man working in Seoul as a native English teacher was caught using his camcorder-functioned cell phone to record images of women’s underwear at Gangnam subway station, southern Seoul.
The 28-year-old was confirmed to have worked as an English teacher at an elementary school in Mapo, Seoul, police said. Police found nearly 100 photos and two other video clips showing unidentified women’s underwear on his phone.
