A girl wielding a knife minorly injured 35-year-old Korean stage actor, TV host, and Ok-pop singer Cho Kyu-hyun, popularly generally known as Kyuhyun, after she intruded into the backstage space of a theater in western Seoul Sunday night time.
In an announcement on X, Kyuhyun’s label Antenna stated the incident occurred after the ultimate efficiency of the Korean-language musical Ben-Hur, by which the idol most well-known as a member of boyband Tremendous Junior, performed a lead function. The present had run on the LG Arts Heart Seoul since Sept. 2.
Native media reported {that a} lady in her 30s entered the actors’ dressing space at round 6 p.m. native time on Nov. 19 and brandished a knife in entrance of a number of actors. Kyuhyun reportedly tried to restrain the assailant and his finger was reduce within the course of.
“He was instantly handled on the spot and is at present in good well being,” the label’s assertion stated.
Police arrested the assailant, who stays unnamed, the identical day and are at present investigating her motive. Authorities stated she has no connection to Kyuhyun or the opposite stage actors and, based on the Korea Herald, the lady by no means stalked the actors earlier than.
In August, the nation grew anxious on account of a sequence of seemingly random, unexplained stabbings, which have been referred to by the general public as mudjima (which interprets to “don’t ask why”) crimes. These assaults dedicated towards obvious strangers had no clear motives.
Whereas crime charges are relatively low within the East Asian nation and arrests for violent crime have decreased in Seoul during the last decade, the rise in current mudjima crimes has renewed public discourse over ongoing and unresolved problems with social inequality and mental health access.
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