A South Korean high court judge was shot with a crossbow on Monday, apparently by a dissatisfied former litigant from one of the cases presided over by the judge, court officials said.
Park Hong-woo, a Seoul High Court judge, was hit in the stomach by the arrow fired in front of his residence around 7 p.m. in eastern Seoul, court officials said. A man identified only by his surname Kim, who was arrested at the site of the incident after Park's driver reported it to the police, is alleged to have carried out the attack.
Park was sent to a hospital nearby his home. Hospital officials say his condition isn't life threatening.
Kim is believed to have shot the judge out of anger at Park from the judge's ruling on a lawsuit in 1996, in which he upheld a lower court decision which rejected Kim's demand for reinstatement of his professorship.
Kim filed the suit after he was denied reemployment at a private university because he slandered fellow professors and was negligent in research work.
Seoul, Jan. 15 (Yonhap)
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