Chuncheon: A local court on Thursday sentenced a former Army officer to life in prison for killing and dismembering a woman, who was a fellow military employee whom he had an affair with, for fear of disclosing their relationship. The Chuncheon District Court handed out a life sentence for Yang Kwang-jun on charges of murder, dismemberment, and concealing of body.
According to Yonhap News Agency, Yang, 38, who was an Army lieutenant colonel, is accused of allegedly strangling the victim to death during a wrangle in his car at their unit's parking lot on Oct. 25. He is also charged with dismembering and abandoning the victim's body in a river in Hwacheon, Gangwon Province, 88 kilometers northeast of the capital, the next day.
The victim was a civilian military employee who worked at the same unit in the Cyber Operations Command in Gwacheon, south of Seoul. Unlike Yang, who was married and had a family, the victim was single. Yang was later dismissed from his position in the military.