Woman jailed for extortion after threatening to falsely accuse boyfriend of rape

A woman in her 30s has been sentenced to one year in prison for falsely accusing her boyfriend of rape and using the claim to extort money from him, a court said Sunday.

The Jeonju District Court convicted the 35-year-old woman of false accusation and extortion, finding that she threatened to file a sexual assault complaint against her boyfriend, a civil servant, unless he paid her tens of millions of won.

According to the ruling, the woman demanded money from the man after he tried to end their ...