20s Man Arrested for Assaulting Girlfriend Dozens of Times Over Contact with Another Man

A man in his 20s was arrested by the police for assaulting his girlfriend because she had been communicating with another man.

The Gwangju Seobu Police Station announced on the 2nd that they had arrested A (27) on charges of special assault for hitting his girlfriend with a cleaning tool.

A is accused of assaulting his girlfriend B with a cleaning tool at a one-room apartment in Ssangchon-dong, Seo-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City on the 10th of last month.

According to the police investigation, A lost his temper and assaulted B after discovering that she had been communicating with another man through SNS.

The police arrested A based on the fact that he has a prior record of similar offenses and refused to comply with summons, and they are investigating the exact circumstances of the incident.