Young man’s swearing at old man causes public uproar

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Young man’s swearing at old man causes public uproar

지하철서 80대 노인에게 패륜아적 욕설한 ‘막말남’에 네티즌들 분노

Posted : 2011-06-28 18:47

Updated : 2011-06-28 18:47

Public anger is growing over a young man who in a video footage hurled a torrent of abuse at an elderly man on a subway train.

A young man swears at an elderly citizen in this photo captured from an Internet site. The man’s offensive attitude toward the senior citizen has caused a public uproar, with some netizens launching an online petition calling for the punishment of the man for defamation and verbal abuse.

By Kim Rahn

Public anger is growing over a young man who in a video footage hurled a torrent of abuse at an elderly man on a subway train.

Many Internet users are denouncing him and demanding he be punished, while some have disclosed the man’s personal information online, which was proven false.

The backlash started after the video clip was posted on an online bulletin board Sunday. In the four-minute footage, a man in his 20s cursed and swore at an elderly man in his 70s or 80s. The older man had asked the younger man not to cross his legs as it caused the boy’s shoe to touch the older man’s trouser leg.

Shouting and using the f-word, the young man responded, “I didn’t do anything wrong! Why do you provoke me?” He also shouted at a middle-aged man who was trying to stop him, saying, “Don’t touch me!”

He then told the elderly man to get off the subway carriage at the next stop, saying, “Do you want to go to the police? Get off at Seoul Station. If you don’t, you’re dead.”

In respons, the old man was relatively calm, telling the man, probably around the age of his grandson, that he was simply asking him to observe etiquette on the subway.

Bloggers have expressed their disapproval, deploring the man’s impoliteness. An Internet user, kokomi, commented, “He should apologize to the old man on his knees on the subway in front of many passengers. His parents also should do the same because they raised him like that.”

Some Internet users are making an online petition, calling for him to be punished. “I hope the law enforcement authorities will catch him, give as heavy a punishment as possible, and make him apologize to the old man and the public. If society lets him get away with it, there will be more victims,” said blogger js who started the petition, supported by about 25,000 people.

Some also disclosed his name, residence and the school he attends on the Internet. Bloggers posted articles denouncing him on the school’s website and his blog.

But it was found the information was wrong, and the officials of the school filed a petition with the police to find the rumormongers, saying the false information defamed the school.

Days earlier, another video clip shot on the subway also caused a stir, in which a young mother carrying a baby hit an old woman with a plastic bottle for touching the child.

지하철서 80대 노인에게 패륜아적 욕설한 ‘막말남’에 네티즌들 분노
“너 오늘 사람 잘못 건드렸어 개XX야, 경찰서 갈래? XX놈아. 너 서울역에서 안 내리면 죽여버린다.” 지하철 안에서 아기 엄마의 ‘지하철 할머니 폭행’ 동영상에 이어 20대 청년이 80대 노인에게 패륜아적인 폭언과 욕설을 하는 동영상이 인터넷에 공개돼 충격을 주고 있다. 27일 한 인터넷 커뮤니티사이트에는 ‘젊은 사람이 나이 많은 노인에게 욕을 하네요’라는 제목의 동영상이 올라왔다. 이 영상에는 20대 남성이 지하철 안을 마구 돌아다니며 자리에 앉아있는 80대 노인에게 욕설을 퍼붓는 모습이 담겼다. 이 남성의 폭언은 옆자리의 노인이 “불편하니 (꼰) 다리를 내려 달라. 방송에서 발을 포개선 안 된다고 그러잖아.”라고 말하면서 시작된 것으로 보인다. 이 남성은 이 말을 듣자 화를 주체하지 못하고 “근데 내 다리는 왜 치냐.”며 욕설을 하기 시작했다. “젊은 사람이 어른에게 뭐 하는 거냐.”라는 말이 들리지 않는 듯 3분이 넘게 지하철 안을 돌아다니며 고함을 질렀다. 이 남성은 손을 들어 노인을 때리려는 듯한 모습까지 보였다. 이 상황에 겁먹은 주변 승객들은 다른 곳으로 피했다. 사태는 옆에 있던 60대 남성이 제지에 나서면서 가까스로 마무리됐다. 이 동영상은 지난 달 22일 오후 5시쯤 수원으로 가는 1호선 지하철 안에서 벌어진 일을 촬영한 것으로 알려졌다. 네티즌들은 “어떻게 젊은 사람이 저럴 수 있느냐. 자기 부모라고 생각하면 저렇게 하지는 못할 것”이라며 공분했다. 한 네티즌은 “옆에서 무관심한 젊은 사람들도 문제다.”라며 말리지 않은 주변의 다른 젊은이들을 나무랐다.

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