Police yesterday arrested a man who threw a lit cigarette in the corridor of an apartment building where he lived in Mokpo, South Jeolla Province, causing fire that hurt a female English teacher from South Africa.
The man, surnamed Lee, caused the fire last Saturday morning while drunk, according to Mokpo Police Station.
The smoke from the fire knocked the English teacher, known by the initials J.N., unconscious. She was transferred to a nearby hospital but has not yet woken up, police officials said.
The woman, who came to Korea to work as an English teacher, was asleep in her friend's room after being asked to take care of the room and the dogs while her friend was away.
The firemen rescued two other people from the building who are said to have recovered.
Details are still unavailable as there haven't been any articles on the story since December 1st and nobody really seems to know who it is, where it happened, or the condition of the woman. If anyone hears anything or comes across some information, send me an email or write a comment to my initial post.
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