A female teacher stabbed an eight-year-old student to death at an elementary school in South Korea on Monday, local media reported, citing authorities.
In a murder rate of 1.3 per 100,000 people in 2021, according to official statistics — below the toglobal average of six homicide deaths per 100,000 people.
The country witnessed a string of high-profile violent crime incidents in 2023, however, including several stabbings.
In August of that year, a high school teacher was reportedly attacked with a knife, also in Daejeon, around 140 kilometres (87 miles) south of the capital Seoul.
In the same week, an attacker drove a car into a pedestrian walkway in the city of Bundang, near Seoul, before attacking people at a department store with a knife.
And in July 2023, a person was killed and three wounded in another stabbing in Seoul.
AFP
