"I was going to start a fire"...I hit my ex-lover father with a blunt instrument.

Ilsan Dongbu Police Station in Gyeonggi Province arrested a man in his 20s who wielded a blunt weapon against the father of his separated lover yesterday (4th) on charges of attempted murder.

A is accused of wielding a blunt weapon after an argument when he/she ran into B's father while visiting his/her ex-girlfriend's house in Janghang-dong, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do on the morning of the 2nd.

A was found to have taken a bag of fallen leaves and butane gas to set B's house on fire.

Mr. A reportedly stated in a police investigation that he visited B because he did not meet him and tried to set it on fire.