Looks like this (video) happened at an anti-beef rally in Seoul yesterday, which always seem to bring out the best in people. It's in the Korean news, here and here for example, and in the Joongang Ilbo English-language version today.
Update: Should that daum site close, it's now on youtube here.
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I can't even watch this. I once saw a Korean knock his mother's purse out of her hands and kick it down the street before stomping away.
I think it's a result of being carried on their mother's backs well past walking age.
Yeah, except this was unrelated to the protest. In fact, demonstrators said, "Aha! This will be reported as if it was a demonstrator!"
The guy was a short-term city employee working street maintenance. He told the woman she couldn't sell kimbab on the street (who knows why?) and her curse-laden reply basically was, "You're going to be cleaning streets the rest of your life." He lost it and attacked her. (No justification, of course, but that's what happened.)
Predictably, the Korean media did report this as if a demonstrator, and a day later this was quietly retracted when it came to light he was working for the city during the outbreak. Indeed, Seoul city issued an apology for the altercation. The full story is here.
However disgusting the treatment of this old woman (however uncouth), this was not linked to the demonstrations.
Just another example of the media distortions I've been pointing out.
(Not to defend the nastiest demonstrators. Even sympathetic individuals have been registering a certain degree of distaste for the extreme elements that have emerged in the past weeks. But they're bad enough to be criticized on their own demerits, without distortions thrown in...)
it happened at a demonstration, though, was my point in my latest post.
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