Pension owner fined after peacock attacks 4-year-old guest

A pension owner has been fined 3 million won ($2,038) after a peacock roaming on the property attacked and injured a 4-year-old guest.

The Chungju Branch of Cheongju District Court on Friday said that it found the 58-year-old owner guilty of occupational negligence that resulted in the child's injury.

The owner kept peacocks, rabbits and parrots at the pension in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, for guests to interact with.

But in August last year, one of the peacocks, which had been allowed ...