"Seoul (The Korea Herald/ANN) - Police apprehended a student Thursday for allegedly murdering his mother, having been unable to deal with her increasing academic expectations, and leaving her body to rot for months in their apartment.

According to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, the high school senior, 18, stabbed his mother, 51, in the throat with a kitchen knife in March and left her body to decompose in a room for eight months. "I was afraid of the severe punishment I was going to receive when my mother found out that I forged my grades to say I was 62nd in the nation during the next day's Parent Teacher Night," confessed the student."

and apparently the boy has been forging his grades a long time just to meet his mother's expectations.

"Police say that the mother resorted to violence and other means of torture including withholding the teenager's food or sleep, when his grades failed to meet her expectations."

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