Just as we thought we’d seen the back of the recent spate of Ladygate scandals, news was breaking earlier this week of ‘Sexual Harassment Grandpa’ who, despite not being a lady, nevertheless managed to earn his title on some form of public transport. According to the young university student who was the target of his very offensive charm offensive, Sexual Harassment Grandpa allegedly came up to her and said:
You look ripe for gangbang. Good for gangbanging. Do you know what a gangbang is? That’s what you are, a gangbang.
A widespread atmosphere of relaxed attitudes towards sexual violence and the culture of acquiescence and silence has been reported by koreaBANG before. But the growing public distrust of allegedly incompetent police is now encouraging many victims of crime to take the law into their own hands.
The original victim of the alleged abuse put the pictures up on her blog but mainstream news media is relaying them with Sexual Harassment Grandpa’s face censored.
From Daum:
Female student made a victim of verbal sexual-abuse on subway
A female university student who was made a victim of sexual harassment on subway has posted the suspect’s uncensored picture on the net, attracting wide attention. The netizens are expressing public angor and widely circulating the picture.
‘On the 7th of May, at 1 PM I was on the subway from Sadang station, and was victimized by an old man who verbally abused me’ went the story reportedly posted by a female university student on a portal site webboard.
According to her post, the oldman continuously mumbled ‘you look ripe for gangbang. Good for gangbanging. Do you know what gangbang is? That’s what you are, a gangbang’ at her. Taken aback by this abuse and not knowing what to do, she could only look away while he continued to verbally abuse her for next 3 stops. She wrote ‘I could not do or say anything because he was an oldman and I was such a shock that I could not even dial for police.’ In a state of bewilderment she took the photo of her assailant.
Seeing this, the oldman up the ante with more abuses: ‘What, photo? Take it, you are a gangbang. I am an idiot. Take my picture. Should I take your pants off and take some pictures too?’
The student got off at Shinrim Station and immediately reported to the police. But the police responded that ‘if you had called at the spot, we could have detained the man but this is too late already. It is impossible to find [him] with pictures alone.
She wrote ‘For 8 long minutes I was subjected to torrents of abuse in front of so many people and felt incredibly humiliated. I understand ‘gangbang’ is a word for gang-raping woman. I am so paralized by the sense of indignation now. I would very much like to serve him justice.’
In the posted article she posted the suspect’s photos uncensored.
Understandably it has unleashed massive online outcry. Netizen ‘1122’ wrote ‘he would understand what he had done if his daughter was on the receiving end. Must be difficult being that brainless. Crazy fuck’ while ‘Padakpadall’ wrote ‘[W]hy are there so many crazy people on subway? Gosh..’ Jo-guk, a Seoul University professor and prolific Twitter commentator wrote ‘Wow, amazingly disgusting old man, let’s catch him.’
The student posted on her Twitter account at 12:50AM of the following day: ‘Thank you very much for this. I will tweet if he gets arrested.’
Comments from Daum:
청기와님
He must’ve aged through his asshole Tsk tsk
bodamsan
Seated next to an insane person… I sometimes see crazy folks on subway and the best thing to do is to move away from them. There’s nothing you can do about these crazy people….
zze
Absolute truth: Even the worst of thugs get old. Tons of old fart thugs out there.
한나래
Am I the only one thinking about the Devil Equus and Devil Beast stories?? There are too many witch-hunt articles now… Maybe we should have more impartial and balanced view on these sort of articles…
초원의빛
Thanks to these old folks, there’s a saying that ‘you get old you go die’…
eizkw
A member of senior LPG cannister troopers?
짹짹짹
What were people around her doing, not helping her at all? Someone should have at least reported to the Subway assistance service or something, this is very disappointing.
SCH-V330
Good thing she disclosed the face!!
MovingStone
I am very sure that old guy is an alba, a core member of the ‘the Concerned Parents League.‘ Wrinkley thugs group… Previously known as ‘the Northwest Young men’s Group.‘ The same people who went around massacring people in Jaeju Island and other parts of South Korea. Once a thug always a thug…
Gsniper
Give that man a membership card for the Saenuri party, a license for ministerial duty and make him run for bi-election in Pohang.
호랭이
Can’t find him just with the picture? Whatever happen to their ability to track down all those protesters with only a few pictures?
꽃보단현찰
Why are there so many horrid old men…… Really hope he gets arrested
dream7664
Good for her, find that man and arrest him no matter what.
이민석
Gang bang? huhduhduh; Such a terrifying word. Female rights in this country is at rock bottom… sigh~
소나기
By the way… What were people around here doing??? That’s the part I don’t understand… Crazy bastards!! Tsk tsk
물풀
They are the same ones who can’t act their ages but somehow manage to get up early and vote for Saenuri.. Tsk tsk
SIDe
There’s an trashy old man who always asks my colleague who’s just given birth ,’your tits are lactating well?’ He’s so used to sexually harassing others that he doesn’t even realize it.
유치원장ㅋ
The female student got off straight at Shinrim Station to report to the police. But the police said ‘if you called us at the spot, we would have been able to catch the guy but it’s too late now. We can’t arrest a man just on photos.’ This really blows my mind off, she has the evidence yet the refuse to act on it
절단나
Old folks nowadays are not what they used to be… They are just as brainless as the young people…. and quite a lot of crimes by seniors as well. They think being old is some kind of a title…
Danny
The victim takes the photo of the suspect to the police, yet the police cannot do anything. The victim must find the suspect herself. What a nice country~
돌쇠
She must have dressed so whoreish to have invited such comments from someone who is probably very gentle and old. Dress properly, you think he did that for no reason…
스칼라인
Too late huh… Punish the policeman who said he cannot do anything…. He just does not get it… This only goes to show how rotten the police as an organization is….. Before you arrest the old guy, arrest the police man~~!!!!
abmajo
That old fart can’t say a word to young men so only picks on weak women… If he gets gang-banged by 10 young women, you’d be dead right away.
이재광
ke ke ke ke These comments crack me up ke ke ke Guys~ even if she dressed improperly do you think it’s right to verbally abuse someone ke ke ke Why are people so obsessed with how she dressed ke ke Don’t just crap out your comment.. Think before you write you retards ke ke. Whatever, the subway is nuts these days… What is the world coming to? Tsk tsk tsk
