▲ This photo taken April 13, 2026, shows a high school in the central city of Gyeryong, where a student attacked a teacher with a knife. (Yonhap)

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Arrest warrant sought for student over knife attack on teacher

SEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) -- Police on Tuesday applied for an arrest warrant against a high school senior detained on charges of attacking a teacher with a knife at a school in the central city of Gyeryong the previous day.

The student, whose identity has been withheld, is accused of stabbing the 30-something male teacher with a knife multiple times at their school in Gyeryong, about 165 kilometers south of Seoul, at 8:44 a.m. Monday. The student immediately fled the scene but turned himself in to the police later.

The teacher sustained non-life-threatening injuries to the jaw and shoulders and underwent surgery.

The police suspect that the student planned the attack in advance due to resentment, as he had middle school conflicts with the teacher, who was recently reassigned to his high school.

The student is said to have complained that the teacher was particularly harsh on him during middle school and refused to attend school.

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