80,000 rally behind young woman who died after police dropped sexual assault case

More than 80,000 people have signed a petition calling for a renewed investigation after a 19-year-old woman died by suicide in late February following a police decision to drop her sexual assault case. As of Thursday, the petition posted on the National Assembly site on April 16 has collected 80,900 signatures, surpassing the 50,000-signature threshold that obligates the Assembly to formally review it. The case centers on a woman who filed a criminal complaint in December 2025 against her employer at a bar in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, accusing the owner, a man in his 40s, of quasi-rape. She told police that she had drunk heavily, blacked out and later came to her senses to find him on top of her and engaged in sexual activity. Police, however, accepted the owner’s claim that it was consensual and decided not to send the case to the prosecution, citing CCTV footage that showed the two smiling and talking to each other before and after the encounter. Days after being informed of the conclusion, the woman, who had been an aspiring police officer, according to her family, fell to her deat

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