Reported "Man in Drag" at Girls' School Turns Out to Be Teenage Girl

Commotion Over Reported Cross-Dressing Intruder at Wonju Girls' High School Intruder Identified as Teenage Girl "I Went In Out of Curiosity"

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By Kang Ji-wong1ee@sedaily.com
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A report that a man dressed as a woman had trespassed at a girls' high school in Wonju, Gangwon Province, turned out to involve a teenage girl, police said.

A call to the 112 emergency line on the 26th said a man in women's clothing had entered a girls' high school in Wonju, according to police on the 28th.

Officers who responded to the scene reviewed closed-circuit television footage and found that a person had entered through an unlocked door at about 4:50 p.m. the previous day. The person walked around each floor of the school for roughly 40 minutes.

A police investigation identified the person as a teenage girl. She told investigators she had been curious about the school and wanted to see it, according to police.

Police found no criminal offense and plan to close the case.

A similar incident occurred at another school in Gangwon Province. Signs of a comparable intrusion were detected at a middle school in Wonju's Bangok neighborhood, but a police investigation found that a man had entered the building because he urgently needed a restroom.

Original reporting by Kang Ji-won for Seoul Economic Daily.

AI-translated from Korean. Quotes from foreign sources are based on Korean-language reports and may not reflect exact original wording.

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