``Crime to get attention''...Man in his 20s imitated graffiti on Gyeongbokgung Palace wall without detention = South Korea

A man in his 20s, who is suspected of committing a crime based on the incident in which he defaced the wall of Gyeongbokgung Palace by writing graffiti on it, has been taken to court while in custody.
On the 15th, the 6th Criminal Division of the Seoul Central District Public Prosecutors Office announced that a suspect, 28, has been detained and indicted on suspicion of violating the Act on the Protection of Cultural Properties.
At around 10:20 p.m. on December 17th last year, Seol allegedly painted red spray paint with the name of a specific singer and an alcoholic on the stone wall to the left of Seodaemun (West Gate) of Gyeongbokgung Palace, a nationally designated cultural property.
He is accused of defacing the song by writing the title of BAM. The day before the crime, Seol learned from a media article that the wall of Gyeongbokgung Palace had been damaged by someone's graffiti, and then copied the incident and committed the crime.
That's what I found out. Sol is said to have told prosecutors that he considered graffiti on cultural properties to be a type of art that violates sacred grounds, and that he tried to attract the attention of others through such actions.
. Earlier, two teenagers, a male and female, were also arrested for spray-painting words such as ``Free Movies'' on the walls of Gyeongbokgung Palace. Police are pursuing the abettor who directed the damage.
``We will do our best to ensure that the defendant, who caused the anger of the public by damaging cultural properties, is sentenced to a sentence commensurate with his crime, and that he recovers from the damage caused,'' a public prosecutor's office official said.
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