Korean media: A South Korean police officer who studied in China used Chinese communication to save a Chinese woman three times a day

Source: World Wide Web

According to Yonhap News Agency, the Seoul police in South Korea released news on November 1 that a grassroots police officer who had studied in China saved a Chinese woman who tried to take her own life three times a day by virtue of her Chinese proficiency in October this year.

South Korean police said on Nov. 1 that at 11 a.m. on Oct. 10, the Gangdong Police Station in Seoul received a report that a young woman had tried to commit suicide by throwing herself into the river. Police patrol officers immediately rushed to the Han River near the Guangjin Bridge, rescued the 20-year-old woman, and took her to the police station to arrange for her family to pick her up. But because the woman did not speak Korean or English at all, the police could not contact her family. Cui Xu, a grassroots police officer who had studied in China for three years in high school, asked the identity of the woman in fluent Chinese, and then contacted her mother to pick her up.

Unexpectedly, the woman rushed to the highway to seek death after arguing with her mother outside the police station. After Cui Xu and his colleagues sent their mother and daughter out of the police station, they did not dare to take it lightly, and they kept watching and observing the movements, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they took them to the police station again. Cui Xu learned that the mother and daughter had never been friendly, so they contacted her cousin, who was usually good to her, to pick up people.

According to the Yonhap News Agency, at about 17:00 on October 10, someone called the police again that the woman tried to throw herself into the river. The police decided to send Choi Wook to take full responsibility for the thorny case. Cui Xu kept talking to the woman who was submerged to her waist by the river, so that she could calm down again. In view of the woman's extremely unstable mental state, the police worked with the local mental health centre to arrange for her to be hospitalized for emergency treatment. A follow-up investigation found that the woman suffered from mental illness.

The report said that Choi Wook, who has been working for two years, told Yonhap News Agency that the incident was due to all the police officers of the inspection team, not his own credit, and that he would become a police officer who reassured the citizens and his colleagues in the future.