Apology for S Korean woman convicted of biting man's tongue as he attacked her

Choi Mal-ja, now 78, has campaigned for years to overturn her sentence, after she was attacked when she was 18.

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Choi Mal-ja was sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for two years, for biting off part of her attacker's tongue as he allegedly tried to rape her in 1964, when she was 18 years old.

Inspired by the country's #MeToo movement, Ms Choi, now 78, has campaigned for years to have her conviction overturned.

Her retrial began in the city of Busan on Wednesday, where prosecutors issued an apology and asked for the court to quash her guilty verdict.

"For 61 years, the state made me live as a criminal," Ms Choi told reporters outside the court ahead of the hearing.