Anti-US Wacko Attacks Democratic Party Head with a Hammer Before Korean Presidential Election
Fortunately Song Young-gil is out of the hospital and back campaigning for Lee Jae-myung, but what a nut job his assailant appears to be:
![Democratic Party (DP) Chairman Song Young-gil attends a press conference for DP presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung on Tuesday at the party’s office in Yeouido, western Seoul, after being discharged from the hospital for head injuries. [NEWS1]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2022/03/08/292ddff5-4d9f-4df3-a017-af3b5f11c56d.jpg?resize=369%2C1284&ssl=1)
Video footage captured by a bystander showed the assailant dressed in hanbok (traditional Korean attire) holding a selfie stick in one hand and a black plastic bag in the other, which turned out to be concealing a hammer. The suspect was restrained by people at the scene and arrested on the spot by police.
Joong Ang Ilbo
Song, bleeding from the head, was whisked to the emergency room of Severance Hospital in Sinchon. DP campaign officials later said Song’s skull was partially depressed, but that there was no damage to his brain or tissues, nor were there any signs of brain hemorrhage. The injuries, overall, were non-life-threatening, they confirmed.
The suspect apparently had been following Song on the campaign trail since last month, as seen through videos he uploaded to his own YouTube channel. Witnesses said he shouted, “I am against South Korea-U.S. military exercises,” and “I can’t pass on such a world to young people.”
Videos on his YouTube appeared to be generally in support of DP’s presidential candidate Lee, but a number of uploads were critical of Song. In one video, the suspect urged “anti-nationalist” Song to retire.
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