South Korean police said they wanted to question the wife of the Belgian Ambassador Peter Lescouhier after receiving the denunciation of the assault on clothing store staff.
Scene from Security Camera on April 9 showed Xiang Xueqiu, Belgian embassy wife in Korea Peter Lescouhier, using hand and hitting an employee in Seoul's clothing store, after being misunderstood
Xiang Xueqiu (right) controversy with owners and clothing store staff in Seoul on April 9.
The incident was widely shared on social networks this week, making some Koreans indignant and asked the Belgian Embassy to apologize.
"Police are mobilized to the scene confirming that she is the wife of the Belgian ambassador," said a policeman in Yongsan on April 21.
The Belgian Embassy in Seoul confirmed Xiang hospitalized but did not comment any further.
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"I believe that diplomatic exemption is important and needs to be respected, but considering the incident related to the Ambassador family, the ambassador should give an official apology," said Lee Hyun-koo, 32 years old
The Lescouhier Ambassador graduated from Phuc Phuc University in Shanghai and Nanjing University in the 1980s, working at the Belgian Embassy in Beijing from 1991 to 1997. He joined his wife to Seoul in 2018, after being