A suspect in the Gyeongbok Palace graffiti incident escaped custody during police investigation but was caught two hours later, reports said Tuesday.
The Cultural Heritage Administration announced that it will begin the second phase of its preservation treatment on the wall of the Gyeongbok Palace from Thursday that was vandalized with spray paint graffiti last December.
Another set of graffiti was found on the already-vandalized walls of Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul on Sunday, adding to the 44-meter (144-feet) graffiti that was spray-painted the night before, according to police reports.
The police said Thursday they are seeking arrest warrants for the 17-year-old, surnamed Lim, whom they allege vandalized the walls of Gyeongbok Palace and a man in his 20s accused of spray-painting the walls in a copycat crime.
A 17-year-old teenager accused of vandalizing historic Gyeongbok Palace said somebody offered to pay him to spray-paint the address of illegal streaming websites on the palace wall.
The suspect who most recently vandalized the left wall of Yeongchumun, the western gate of Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul, turned themselves in on Monday.
A section of the Gyeongbok Palace wall in Seoul was vandalized with graffiti. Authorities are investigating the incident and plan to restore the wall promptly.
An American man in his 30s who drew hundreds of graffiti in the Itaewon neighborhood in Yongsan District, Central Seoul, has been captured, police said on Monday.
Andre Saraiva, a Swedish-French graffiti artist, paints on a wall during a live drawing show hosted by Shinsegae Department Store at its Gangnam branch in southern Seoul on Monday.
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