Belgian ambassador loses South Korea posting after wife slaps worker

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Belgium is ending the posting of its ambassador to South Korea after his wife assaulted a woman in Seoul.

CCTV footage of the incident shows Peter Lescouhier’s wife, Xiang Xueqiu, slapping a shop assistant in April.

Staff had wanted to check the clothes she was leaving in were her own, amid concern she might be shoplifting.

Mrs Xiang later met the shop employee to apologise for her “unacceptable behaviour”, the Belgian foreign ministry said.

But Foreign Minister Sophie Wilmes decided