Bahk Eun-ji has been with The Korea Times since 2012, building a career across multiple desks. She began at the Business Desk, where she conducted in-depth interviews with key figures in Korea's corporate world. Later, she moved to the Politics & City Desk, focusing on education policy and social affairs. She later served as team leader of the digital content team, leading curation efforts on the newspaper’s homepage and reshaping print stories for social media audiences to enhance digital reach. Now back on the Politics Desk, she covers the National Assembly and the Ministry of National Defense, with a renewed focus on political developments.
Man arrested after smoking 100 cigarettes at PC cafe
A man in his 20s smokes 100 cigarettes in a smoking room at a PC cafe in Ulsan on Wednesday in this screen capture from CCTV footage. Screen captured from SBS
By Bahk Eun-ji
By Bahk Eun-ji
A man in his 20s was arrested for lighting up about 100 cigarettes in a smoking room at a PC cafe to make a provocative YouTube video, police said Friday.
According to the Ulsan Nambu Police Station, the man opened seven packs of cigarettes in the smoking room in Ulsan at about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
In CCTV footage, the man is seen lighting the cigarettes and smoking them with both hands. He then throws the butts on the floor while smoke fills the room.
“Smoke kept coming out as if there was a fire in the smoking room,” a cafe patron said. “The inside was full of smoke.”
The cafe owner rushed to the smoking room when he saw the CCTV footage.
“I thought the store was burning,” SBS quoted the owner as saying. “I was so frightened that I called the police because I thought he were here to set a fire.”
Police who attended the scene said the man stated that “I was filming a YouTube video.”
They said he is known to use the facility without paying.
Police are investigating whether to charge him with obstruction of business and trespassing.