South Korea's president visits injured US envoy
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South Korea's president visited injured US Ambassador Mark Lippert on Monday amid an outpouring of public sympathy and support for the envoy who is recovering from an attack by a knife-wielding man.
Lippert has been hospitalized since Thursday at Seoul's Severance Hospital, where Park Geun-hye also received treatment in 2006 when she was knifed by a man with a box cutter during an election rally. Park was then an opposition party leader.
Park's office said the president went to the hospital shortly after she returned to South Korea on Monday from a Middle East tour.
Park was quoted as saying "my heart ached more" because Lippert is in the same hospital because of a similar attack. Lippert told Park that he and his wife have been moved by the support the South Korea government and people have showed to him, according to a statement from the presidential Blue House.
