The leader of the South Korean Democratic Party (DP), Lee Jae-myung, was stabbed in the neck this Tuesday, January 2, during a public event in the city of Busan (about 350 kilometers southeast of Seoul) and has been rushed to the hospital .

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The event took place at 10:27 local time (1:27 GMT) during an event on the land that will host the new Busan airport on the island of Gadeok when a man pounced on the leader of the main South Korean opposition bloc and stabbed him in the left side of the neck.

Lee was taken consciously to the hospital about 20 minutes later with significant bleeding, while the perpetrator of the attack was immediately arrested, according to the Yonhap agency.



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