A petition with over 80,000 signatures demands a renewed investigation into a case where a young woman died by suicide following the police dropping her sexual assault complaint in South Korea.

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 South Korean 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 requires the legislature to formally review it. The case centres on a woman who filed a criminal complaint in December 2025...