Three U.S. soldiers have been caught for alleged sexual harassment of a South Korean woman on a subway train and three others are being sought for their involvement, police said Sunday.

The half-dozen American soldiers, whose identities have been withheld, are accused of harassing a 20-year-old South Korean woman around 9:16 p.m. on Saturday on a train on the subway line No. 1.

Police said the soldiers danced to loud music on the train, and the woman asked them to be quiet. The soldiers then started harassing her while filming their act at the same time.

Police said they detained three of the soldiers and turned them over to the U.S. military police, while three others, who fled the scene, remain at large.

U.S. troops in South Korea are under curfew from 1 a.m .to 5 a.m. The restriction was imposed in January of last year in response to a series of criminal charges brought against American soldiers in the preceding months.

The former USFK commander, Gen. Walter Sharp, lifted a nine-year-old curfew in July 2010, before his successor, Gen. James Thurman, put it back in place.

The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) has said the curfew applies to all U.S. service members in South Korea, whether permanently or temporarily assigned here. It doesn‘t affect military officials at the U.S. embassy in Seoul, but military family members of civilians working on base will be “encouraged to abide by this policy.”

About 28,500 U.S. soldiers are stationed in South Korea. Their presence is a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty and left the two Koreas technically at war. (Yonhap)



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미군들, 지하철 1호선에서 20대女 성추행

국토해양부 서울지방철도특별사법경찰대는 지하철 전동차 안에서 20대 여성을 성추행한 혐의로 A(20)씨 등 미군 6명을 수사하고 있다고 3일 밝혔다.

경찰대에 따르면 A씨 일행은 2일 오후 9시 16분께 지하철 1호선 의정부-회룡역 구간을 운행하던 동두천발 인천행 전동차에서 B(20•여)씨를 성추행한 혐의를 받고 있다.

조사 결과 이들은 전동차 안에서 음악을 크게 틀어놓고 춤을 추며 소란을 피우다 B씨가 “공공장소에서 조용히 해 달라”고 요구하자 B씨를 카메라로 촬영하고 신체부위를 더듬은 것으로 밝혀졌다.

B씨의 신고를 받고 출동한 경찰은 망월사역에서 A씨 등 3명을 붙잡아 미군 헌병대에 인계했고 현장에서 달아난 3명을 추적 중이다. (연합)