Prosecutors demanded a four-year jail term for an expelled South Korean diplomat accused of harassing a teenage girl in Chile.
The former councilor surnamed Park, 51, in charge of cultural affairs at South Korea's foreign mission in Chile was indicted for making improper physical contact with a girl during a Korean-language session in September last year.
In early December, a Chilean television station filmed the diplomat's sexual harassment of another woman who was acting as a teenage girl receiving a Korean language lesson. He was seen trying to hug and kiss a girl, saying he liked her eyes, lips, and breasts.
At a court hearing Friday in the southwestern city of Gwangju, Park's lawyer called for mercy, saying the disgraced diplomat was fully repentant of his crime, according to Yonhap News Agency. The case sparked a public outcry in Chile and South Korea, and Park was recalled and kicked out from the foreign ministry to stand trail. The verdict would come on July 7.
Lim Chang-won = cwlim34@ajunews.com