September 13, 2025
South Korean Woman Declared Innocent After 62 Years
Choi Mal-ja, Convicted Six Decades Ago for Fighting Off an Attacker, Finally Acquitted and Declares “I Am Innocent” Some stories of justice take years to unfold, but few stretch across an entire lifetime. For Choi Mal-ja, a woman from South Korea, her fight lasted more than six decades. In the early 1960s, she found herself the victim of a violent assault. During the attack, she defended herself by biting off part of her assailant’s tongue, a desperate act of survival. Instead of being recognized as someone who fought back against a horrific crime, she was treated as the criminal. At