FOX News
By Landon Mion
January 1, 2024
South Korea’s opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck Tuesday during a visit to the southern port city of Busan.
Lee, the chief of the main opposition Democratic Party, is conscious and was airlifted to the Pusan National University Hospital, a party official and a fire department official told Reuters. He was attacked by an unidentified man during a tour of the site of a proposed airport, Yonhap reported.
The attack left a gash in Lee’s neck that is about 1 cm long, according to YTN television.