A woman in her 50s has been fined for repeatedly banging on her ceiling with a backscratcher and contacting her upstairs neighbor over noise, with a court ruling that her actions amounted to stalking. The Chuncheon District Court fined the 55-year-old woman, identified only as A, 2 million won ($1,400) for violating the Act on Punishment of Crimes of Stalking, according to legal sources Saturday. The court also ordered her to complete 40 hours of a treatment program for stalking offenders. A was accused of stalking her upstairs neighbor on nine occasions between March 17 and May 11 last year at an apartment complex in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province. Her actions included repeatedly striking the ceiling with a backscratcher and calling the upstairs apartment through the building's intercom system. According to the investigation, A had been asking the neighbor, a woman in her 40s identified as B, to keep the noise down since January last year. When the problem remained unresolved, A repeatedly contacted B directly through the intercom to complain. B asked A not to contact her directly over the