Police have identified the so-called "Oldarq," who single-handedly blocked sports organizations based at the Olympic Park Handball Arena in Songpa District, Seoul, from entering their offices.
On the 24th, the Songpa Police Station in Seoul said it had identified a woman in her 30s, identified as A, who obstructed access to offices inside the Handball Arena, which had been used as the vote-counting site for the 9th nationwide local elections (the June 3 local elections) in Songpa District, and requested her to appear.
A is suspected of blocking officials from the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) from entering their offices at the protest site on the 16th. Although opposition lawmakers had worked out a mediation plan between protest participants and the sports groups, A, draped in a U.S. flag, grabbed the door handle and blocked the officials' entry for about two hours.
After the incident, some protest participants began calling A "Oldarq," a portmanteau of Olympic Park and Joan of Arc.
Police plan to summon A soon to investigate the specific circumstances of the alleged offense.