{"id":73034,"date":"2025-07-24T14:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/24\/apology-south-korea-woman-convicted-biting-tongue-alleged-attacker-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:59:04","slug":"apology-for-south-korean-woman-convicted-of-biting-off-tongue-of-alleged-attacker-61-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73034","title":{"rendered":"Apology for South Korean woman convicted of biting off tongue of alleged attacker 61 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1965 Choi Mal-ja was sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for two years, after she fought back as a man allegedly tried to sexually assault her<\/p>\n<p>A woman who bit off part of a man\u2019s tongue during an alleged sexual assault more than 60 years ago has received a formal apology from South Korean prosecutors, as they sought her acquittal during a retrial after decades of living as a convicted criminal.<\/p>\n<p>Choi Mal-ja, now 80, was 18 when she bit the tongue of a 21-year-old man who she said was attempting to rape her in Busan, South Korea\u2019s second-largest city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/24\/apology-south-korea-woman-convicted-biting-tongue-alleged-attacker-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1965 Choi Mal-ja was sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for two years, after she fought back as a man allegedly tried to sexually assault herA woman who bit off part of a man\u2019s tongue during an alleged sexual assault more than 60 years ago &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3370,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metoo-movement","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73035,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73034\/revisions\/73035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}