SEOUL — Belgium’s ambassador to South Korea apologized Thursday after footage showed his wife hitting two boutique staff in the head in a row over shoplifting.
The envoy’s wife tried on items in the Seoul store before walking out, prompting an assistant to run after her to ask about an item she was wearing and reportedly triggering the confrontation.
CCTV camera footage broadcast by South Korea’s SBS showed her pulling at one employee’s arm and hitting her in the head, before slapping another worker who tried to intervene across the face.
The footage had been provided to it in the hope that such an “incident never recurs against workers in (the) service sector”, SBS said.
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