"Online Post Calls for Grenade Terror Attack at Yoon Seok-yeol Inauguration Ceremony... Police Investigation Underway" View original image


[Asia Economy Reporter Seongpil Cho] Ahead of President Yoon Seok-yeol's inauguration ceremony, a post calling for a 'grenade terror attack' was uploaded on an online community bulletin board, prompting the police to launch an investigation.


According to the police on the 10th, the National Investigation Headquarters of the National Police Agency confirmed a post titled "Looking for someone to carry out a grenade terror attack at tomorrow's inauguration ceremony" on the online community 'Bobaedream' at around 10:30 PM the previous day, and assigned the case to the Seocho Police Station in Seoul on the morning of the 10th. A National Investigation Headquarters official stated, "We are identifying the author’s identity, and the formal investigation will be conducted by the Seocho Police Station."



Earlier, the author mentioned the lunchbox bomb of independence activist Yun Bong-gil during the Japanese colonial period in the post, writing, "We need a martyr who can once again breathe a faint hope." The post once had dozens of comments but has since been deleted.


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