Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon hired these light blue-vested thugs tossing people to the ground. Dozens were injured. https://t.co/VUxfUGLgHv
— Tara O (@DrTaraO) June 26, 2019
You can read more at my prior posting about this violence in Seoul.
You would think that after the Nut Rage drama Cho Hyun-ah would be keeping an extremely low profile:
Cho Hyun-ah, 44, the Korean Air heiress who made headlines around the world for the 2014 “nut rage” incident, is being investigated for allegedly attacking her husband during divorce proceedings.
Korea Times
The Suseo Police Station in Seoul said Saturday that investigators started analyzing evidence provided by her husband, surnamed Park, 45, who claims Cho’s abusive behavior against him and five-year-old twin sons destroyed their marriage.
In a recently released video, Cho shouts “Die! Die!” at Park, who told investigators his wife repeatedly “strangled him” and threw a tablet PC at him, which seriously injured his toe.
On Feb. 20, Park said he was preparing for a long legal battle.
“I thought it would be better to put up with it, but when my child asked me, ‘Dad, would you protect me?,’ I was able to get up the nerve (to fight),” he wrote on Facebook.
“I’m afraid of standing up to a chaebol family, but as a father, I will protect my children.”
You can read more at the link.
I've been called a free speech "absolutist" & I embrace the label. But no society can remain free if it allows some people to threaten violence against others for the peaceful expression of their views. A society that does so selectively commits censorship by proxy. #juchejugend https://t.co/ZETAzwrTzB
— Joshua Stanton (@freekorea_us) December 3, 2018
Metal workers union members (under the militant Korean Confederation of Trade Unions) beat company exec b/c the firm was negotiating w another labor union. Police blocked by 30 or so unionists, waits while beating occurs for 40 minutes. Beaters threaten exec's family too. https://t.co/nZDGXZP5W9
— Tara O (@DrTaraO) November 28, 2018
Kim Sung-tae, floor leader of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, is attacked in the face in front of the National Assembly in Seoul on May 5, 2018, in this photo captured from cable channel MBN. The attacker hit Kim in the chin as he was walking up the stairs and later told the police he was angry at the opposition party for causing a parliamentary stalemate. Kim has been on a hunger strike from May 3, demanding an independent counsel probe into an online opinion rigging scandal implicating a ruling party legislator. (Yonhap)
The next time someone gets drunk and violent on an airplane there are now tougher laws for South Korean authorities to punish them with:
The government is toughening penalties for violent behavior on passenger planes.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on Thursday said the National Assembly passed a revision to aviation laws whereby violent passengers who threaten flight safety now face up to 10 years in prison, and five years even when their actions do not endanger a flight.
The revision, which mostly doubles the old penalties, came after a high-profile incident in December last year, when a drunk passenger went on a rampage on a Korean Air flight that carried 80s crooner Richard Marx and therefore made international headlines. [Chosun Ilbo]
You can read more at the link.
A record shop in Istanbul, run by South Korean owner Lee Seok-woo, remains shuttered on June 20, 2016, after it was attacked on June 17 by an unidentified group of people. They stormed into the shop during a small gathering of music fans and attacked them for drinking alcohol during Ramadan, according to investigators. Lee said he won’t kneel to foolishness and has no intention to close down his business. (Yonhap)
Somebody help, we're running out of ways to stoke violence! pic.twitter.com/3gyTW3G3J6
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) November 26, 2014
It was just another day in the Korean National Assembly:
Vice Assembly Speaker Kim Duk-kyu of the Uri Party chaired the session in the absence of Speaker Kim Won-ki, who was prevented from leaving his office when GNP representatives surrounded it. The vice speaker wrapped up voting in just 25 minutes guarded by Uri Party lawmakers who had barricaded themselves in the speaker¿s seat until his arrival. Unruly scenes ran the gamut from verbal abuse to physical scuffles between the adversaries.
If I was in the Korean legislator I would be really smart and hire Choi Hong-man as one of my aides:
Image from MMATKO.
