Convictions upheld for attempted fire that started with burning Bible

The Seoul High Court upheld a 30-month prison sentence for a Seoul resident who started a fire in a residential building’s hallway by setting a Bible alight, legal sources said Monday. The court upheld the defendant’s convictions for attempting to set fire to a residential building and for a separate assault, finding the lower court’s sentence reasonable. On March 18, the defendant was reading the Bible in the building’s hallway when they took apparently issue with a passage, placed the book on