Japanese Man in His 30s Indicted Without Detention for Urinating on Sleeping Chinese Woman

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[The Financial News]  A Japanese man has been handed over to trial after allegedly urinating on a Chinese female tourist at a guesthouse in Busan.
According to the legal community on the 11th, the Busan District Prosecutors' Office's Women and Children Crime Investigation Division, led by chief prosecutor Lee Eun-yoon, said it had indicted a Japanese national, identified as A, 37, without detention on charges including forcible molestation.
A is accused of urinating on the pants, feet and suitcase of B, a 22-year-old Chinese woman who was sleeping in a shared room at a guesthouse in Busan on the 15th of last month.
The case became public after B reported the incident on Chinese social networking services. It drew even more attention when JTBC's "Incident Chief" covered it on the 21st of last month.
According to "Incident Chief," B arrived in Busan on the night of the 11th of last month and stayed in a 10-bed room at the guesthouse. The incident occurred in the early hours of the 15th, just before she was due to return home.
At the time, one Japanese man was staying in the room with other foreign guests. B, who was asleep, woke up around 4:50 a.m. to sounds of movement and shaking from her bed. She then saw A standing in front of her.
A was reportedly touching his private parts and circling around the bed. After seeing this, B turned on her phone flashlight and told him in English to "stop." But A ignored her and kept doing the same thing before suddenly beginning to urinate toward B's bed, soaking her pants, feet, suitcase and the floor of the accommodation, according to her account.
Shocked, B protested, but A reportedly put on his clothes, returned to his bed and sat there laughing. When B confronted him in Chinese, asking, "Are you crazy?" he mocked her by imitating her words, she claimed.
Two other foreign guests who were there at the time restrained A, and police officers who responded to the report separated the two men.
A told police that he had done it because he was drunk, but B countered that "A was fully conscious at the time and did not smell of alcohol at all."
A is believed to have left for Japan on the day of the incident, but the charges were later uncovered during the investigation by authorities.
A prosecution official said, "We will do our utmost to maintain the indictment so that the defendant receives punishment commensurate with the crime, and we will actively respond to crimes against foreigners that occur in Korea."
newssu@fnnews.com Kim Soo-yeon Reporter