Original article in Korean is at this link. Quite a sordid story down in Goyang.

During an investigation of a city council member committing sexual molestion, the victim attempted suicide, it was belatedly discovered.

According to police on the 20th, 37-year-old Ms. A told police that she had been molested by Goyang City Council member Mr. B in a bar and motel in the Janghang-dong area of Goyang from approximately 9.30pm until 1.50am on the night of December 12 of last year.

Police called in both Ms. A and Councilmember B to investigate the molestation, and Councilmember B told them that “this is happening because activist C and reporter D collaborated with Ms. A to defame me after we fought over administration and advertising,” and on January 4 he asked police to arrest them for making false accusations.

Police called in Ms. A and searched her home to investigate Councilman B’s charges.

Afterwards police went to Ms. A’s home three times and called her and sent her text messages on multiple occasions encouraging her to cooperate, and on January 21 Ms. A, with no way to solve the situation, attempted suicide by swallowing sleeping pills.

Fortunately Ms. A was discovered by a friend and taken to a hospital and her life was not in danger, but she sustained serious injury requiring eight stitches on her wrists.

Ms. A said that “every time the police came to investigate me for three or four hours, insisting that that I collaborated to defame the councilman, and I deny it all and then they pressure and cajole me… even though I deny it every time, they keep asking one-sided questions, it is really stressing me out.”

An official with the Ilsan police department said that “the investigation was carried out because Ms. A told lies to the police and they were attempting to ascertain the truth… with the molestation incident and councilman B’s allegagtions it was a complex investigation, but it was not one-sided.”