South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck during a visit to the southern port city of Busan on Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency reported.

Lee, who narrowly lost the 2022 presidential election, is conscious and has been transported to a local university hospital, a party official and a fire department official told Reuters.

Lee was attacked by an unidentified man while touring the site of a proposed airport, Yonhap said. The attack has left him with a gash of about 1 cm on his neck, YTN television reported.

  • @Numenor
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    811 months ago

    From the article: Then conservative opposition party leader Park Geun-hye, who later served as president, was attacked at an event in 2006 with a knife and suffered a gash on her faced that required surgery.

  • @pmtriste
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    211 months ago

    Stabbed … or bit?

    • Quokka
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      211 months ago

      It was a tiny man, wielding a pocket knife as a zweihander.

      • @Crow
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        111 months ago

        Did he use weapon arts?

    • @learningduck
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      211 months ago

      Is that a Train to Busan reference?