Two Teenagers Arrested for Vandalizing Gyeongbok Palace Wall with Graffiti
It is good to see that the police caught the idiots responsible for putting graffiti on the Gyeongbok Palace walls. Hopefully they receive strict punishment to serve as a deterrent to anyone else thinking of doing this as well:
Police on Tuesday arrested two teenagers for drawing 44-meter-long graffiti on the walls of a historic palace in central Seoul last weekend, officials said.
Police caught a 17-year-old male at his home in Suwon, 30 kilometers south of Seoul, on Tuesday evening before arresting his 16-year-old female accomplice nearby minutes later, according to the Seoul Jongno Police Station.
On Saturday, the suspects repeatedly sprayed the phrase “free movie” in Korean with red and blue paint on both sides of the western gate to Gyeongbok Palace and palace walls near the National Palace Museum of Korea.
Also sprayed were the names of illegal video-sharing and streaming platforms, with similar graffiti also found on the walls of the nearby Seoul Metropolitan Agency.
Yonhap
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120 days on “the county farm” making gravel out of boulders with a 20-pound sledge might make a nice impression on these dumbasses.
As well as making their parents pay for the cleanup.
And a warning that any other infractions will get them permanently barred from receiving any social services.
I’d like to see their punishment be, as a minimum, removing the paint from those walls.
Theory:
This was instigated in some way by social media.
Expectation:
Knee-jerk crackdown on some somewhat-realted aspect of social media in three… two… one…
@HotStuff, that’s really just equity and there needs to be something to discourage others…
@CH, we “know” it was probably TikTok; but regardless of CCP influence in the initial crime, putting videos of them being arrested, tried, convicted, sent to hard labor, crying for their mommies, and being forced to wear unfashionable prison attire might do more to prevent recurring issues than some ridiculously ineffective attempt to ban any type of sharing app that will then cost the taxpayers millions in court costs and lawyers’ fees.