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[wylies99]

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/

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.

[wylies99]

Those are the only details given, so far.

[Zutronius]

No-one here knows who it is yet. None of the South Africans who I know don't seem to know either. What happened is a damn shame because some drunken idiot was the cause of this.

[Zutronius]

Apparently she is in real bad shape too with third degree burns. It's not looking good for her.

[taobenli]

Are Korean apartments not equipped with smoke detectors? Is it a good idea to bring good quality smoke detectors/fire alarms with you to Korea? Or what?

[Thunndarr]

Some of my friends know her pretty well I guess and yes, she is in pretty bad shape.

[Jeff's Cigarettes]

[wylies99]

The story is in Korean. Can anyone translate?

http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0002395062

BTW, did she have health insurance?

[RACETRAITOR]

After that Bill Kapoun story, the mother of one of my friends bought a big bag of smoke detectors and started handing them out to everyone she knew.

[Cheonmunka]

How could a (most likely) concrete floor with concrete stairs and steel rails catch fire?

[Smee]

The parents arrived today. The article wylies linked said some Koreans are helping out with some of the medical costs. As far as I know no foreigners in Mokpo know who it is, which is unusual. I suspect there will be a Facebook group sooner or later with donation information. And I'd encourage everyone to contribute.

And, when the guy gets out in a few days because he was simply drunk, I'd encourage everyone to give him a few solid kicks in the head.

[okokok]

Can someone give the actual KH page link. Can't find it on the site.

[Smee]

This should work.
http://admin.koreaherald.co.kr:8080/servlet/cms.article.view?tpl=print&sname=National&img=/img/pic/ico_nat_pic.gif&id=200812040045

After about a week it will become pay-per-view, so that's why people always copy and paste Herald articles elsewhere.

[Real Reality]

[Smee]

Korea Beat translated that article:
http://koreabeat.com/?p=3113