U.S. Army Sergeant Charged for Assault After Punching Korean Man for Allegedly Staring at His Wife
I have been stared at and my wife called names in Korea, but I knew getting in any altercation would only lead to me being the loser legally which is what this sergeant is about to find out:
A U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) sergeant in his 30s is under investigation for allegedly assaulting an 18-year-old male student in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, leaving the teenager with severe injuries.
According to the police, the sergeant, identified as A, is accused of punching the teenager, B, in the face near Pyeongtaek Station around 12:30 a.m. on Nov. 17. The attack caused significant injuries, and A has been charged with assault. The Pyeongtaek Police Station booked Sergeant A on charges of assault.
The victim’s father described the severity of the injuries during an interview with JTBC on Nov. 19. “The doctor said it was hard to believe this injury was caused by a person’s fist,” he said. “In all his years as a plastic surgeon, he had never seen bones damaged to this extent from a punch.”
He added that B would need to wear oral prosthetics and keep his jaw stabilized for at least eight weeks. “The injuries are so severe that he might suffer lifelong complications,” the father said.
The sergeant claimed that he was also assaulted by B, prompting police to charge the teenager with assault. However, CCTV footage from the scene does not show B physically reacting to the sergeant’s actions.
The altercation reportedly began when A confronted B, asking, “Why are you staring at me?” Witnesses mentioned that A had been arguing loudly with a Korean woman at the time, which attracted the attention of passersby.
The father added, “The Korean woman with the sergeant cursed at my son, asking why he was staring. My son responded that he wasn’t looking, but she kept pointing at him and approaching. As she continued swearing and pushing his chest, the sergeant punched my son when he was unprepared.”
Korea Times via a reader tip
You can red more at the link, but the sergeant be ready to pay a large compensation payment to the man he punched.
This incident does remind of an incident 20 years ago when a Korean female that worked at Gyeongbokgung Palace started screaming at me and falsely claiming I was laughing at her.
I was leading a group of Soldiers with one of my KATUSAs to visit Gyeongbokgung Palace. When we arrived we were excited to see that a changing of the palace guards was taking place. The guards wore armor and carried medieval weapons and marched around with flags.
I asked my KATUSA what the flags represented and he didn’t know. So he told me he would ask one of the people who worked at Gyeongbokgung if they knew. He walked over to a young lady in a traditional hanbok who obviously worked at the palace and asked her if she knew what the flags meant. She didn’t know and my KATUSA asked the other palace people if they knew. None of them knew. My KATUSA walked back over and told me that none of them knew. I then checked a tourist brochure of Gyeongbokgung and I started laughing because all the definitions for all the flags was in the brochure the whole time while we were trying to find out what they meant.
Right after this the young female worker came over and started screaming at me in Korean and then in English she said that this is an anti-American area that we cannot go here and we should leave. I told her if she is anti-American that is her problem, not mine because I get along with Koreans just fine. She then began screaming at my KATUSA in Korean saying that we were laughing at her because she didn’t know what the flags meant and wanted me to apologize. My KATUSA told her we were not laughing at her and she misunderstood what we were laughing at. We were laughing at having the brochure with us the whole time and not knowing what the flags meant. She kept going on in Korean screaming at us trying to get me to apologize.
By this time everyone was now staring at me getting screamed at by this Korean woman in hanbok. We just walked away and left, but fortunately no one punched me in the face like this sergeant did to the Korean man for supposedly staring at his wife. Like what happened to me, it was probably just a misunderstanding that the sergeant overreacted to.
Usually it’s the other females, especially if they’ve had a few, that make the ugly comments. Years ago had an ugly confrontation in an after hours restaurant 2d floor above MSR 3 just south of Casey. Woman used the dreaded Y word to my then 2 tour girl. Two rough looking locals and I looked each other over while I wisely told my girl to shut up and sit back down. Lost face with her but avoided an incident, her wounded pride wasn’t worth it.
Reading this from GI Korea, it’s obvious that he’s defending that accused US soldier for punching that teenage kid out and smashing his jaws for the rest of his life. However, the news said that the woman made apologies to the family for this behavior, which proves this was an unprovoked attack (as the woman admitted herself), unlike the GI Korea’s suggestive hints that this was a deserved attack (based on his observations and anecdotes which has nothing to do with this case, other than the people involved in the cases are Korean nationals). And of course, that accused 30 year old should be paying for the hospital treatment and a lifetime of disability coming the boy’s way. GI Korea’s trying to sound like this is a financial extortion, while also ignoring the US Soldier trying to lie his way out by accusing the boy of attacking him, disproven by the CCTV camera. Very convenient to ignore that fact.
This is a typical bias from this site, and it’s not surprising.
Police confirmed it was an unprovoked sucker punch after watching the CCTV video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BICh50kk_Bs&ab_channel=JTBCNews
“A soft answer turneth away wrath.”
When confronted by the sergeant’s “friend”, the young man should have apologized (even if he was not staring) and asked her if she was a famous movie star. Apologized again, and left…
But at 12:30am, maybe all were drunk.
Korea Man, I was willing to believe the sergeant was 100% at fault.
Until I watched your video.
The first thing I noticed is the selective editing.
The big eye-opener for me on this was my best friend was in law school when poor Rodney King was beat by racist white cops.
I said the cops were going down. He laughed and said they did nothing wrong.
What?
He brought the full video over and we watched it with a lawyer’s explanation.
We only saw the same clip over and over on CNN of standing cops beating a helpless guy on the ground.
What the public was never shown is that he was a known drug user who just ended a high-speed chase. The cops knew who he was and they knew he was dangerous.
In the full video, they have him on the ground and he starts to get up. They beat him until he is back on the ground. Then they stop. Then he gets up. They beat him until he is back on the ground. Then they stop.
Now you know why the officers were found not guilty.
To appease the LA rioters (where evil Koreans with guns defended their businesses against marauding blacks fighting injustice), Bush promised federal civil rights charges.
Of the 4 officers given these trumped-up charges in an atmosphere intended to convict, two were aquitted.
There wasn’t much of a crime.
And I never trusted the media again.
So let’s look at the video you linked.
You don’t have to selectively edit a video that shows exactly what you claim. You show it all and it backs up what you say.
Just from that, I know the guy that got hit did things the media is not proud to show.
Let’s look at him and his body language.
The guy that got punched was all up in the personal space of the couple, especially the woman. The woman pushed him, yet he came right back. He was an agressor.
There is about zero chance that the couple started things with this random guy to begin with.
Big mouth, low-testosterone guys shouldn’t get up close and agressive in front of guys who are man enough to protect their women from bullies.
So thanks for getting me pointed in the right direction.
I thought this was just another Stupid GI Trick but it looks much more like an case of yet another Korean incel seething over the fact that a white monkey is taking their women.
@GIKorea
Must’ve been that time of the month.
BTW, what is “the dreaded Y word”? Is it “야“?
I mean that’s just low manners… unless talking to your own child or a dog, I suppose…
Is there another one?
Setnaffa, Yang galbo was what was said, drunk women that said it was giving up 6+ inches in height, 20 lbs, an unmeasurable level of female meanness, and a guaranteed beating. Just because it was essentially true didn’t mean it had to be said.
A lot of the comments on the video are not exactly supportive of that “teenage kid”. Some of them are pretty brutal.
Grayblack, that Youtube video was brigaded by the WOMAD – Korean feminist radicals. There’s a gender war going on in Korea currently.
Scroll down to this reddit comments that describes what’s going on.
https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/1gwd7r5/video_of_american_soldier_attacking_18yearold_i/
By the way, the boy is only 16 years old, in western age. I doubt he would have said anything to a drunken bar-girl over 30 years old – almost twice his age. Apparently your American hero with a sucker punch was cheating on his Korean wife (another woman who found out what happened).
“Grayblack, that Youtube video was brigaded by the WOMAD – Korean feminist radicals. There’s a gender war going on in Korea currently.”
Let me understand.
If GI Joe punches some sweet innocent teenager and everybody agrees he did the wrong thing, he is a bad guy.
If GI Joe punches some dude that is all up in his girl’s face at 2am and a lot of people recognize this, it is a plot by women?
I see you are not just a racist but also a misogynist.
@Korean Man
Do you not like feminists? Remind me again which political party in Korea is pro-feminist. Careful there, you’re starting to sound dangerously right wing.
I do think it’s a perfectly valid question as to why a 16 year old kid (18 year old man?) is out and about past midnight if that really is his age. With how Korean kids are kept under such a tight leash in order to study, study, study, barely sleep, and study some more, had this been a purely domestic incident people would have been more likely to assume the kid was a delinquent and not cared.
The age isn’t clear. There’s still a lot that isn’t clear. What is being shown is clearly not all of the CCTV footage. The Korean government and media has every reason to try to maximize this incident for their benefit. All we can tell from the footage provided so far is that the Korean guy is standing close to his assailants before getting hit. Did he approach them or did they approach him? Why didn’t they show the footage preceding the assault?
The soldier was probably legally in the wrong for hitting him, but basic street smarts tells you to not approach another man’s woman, even if they are making a scene in public. I notice in the video everyone else is avoiding the situation, and the kid only walks away after getting hit. This is why kids should not be wondering around at night unsupervised. They don’t know how to avoid trouble. Worse, this might have been a case of fuck around and find out. Yes, the soldier would still legally be in the wrong in that scenario and the kid in the right, but once again, being in the right doesn’t prevent getting a broken jaw.
“up in his girl’s face”?
His girl? You mean his bar girl prostitute whom he was arguing loudly with. Dozens of people saw the couple fighting. He should have paid for the service, as originally agreed upon and there wouldn’t have been a fight. His wife has visited and apologized to the victim, and is going to file a divorce against his hubby, John.
His girl? You mean his bar girl prostitute whom he was arguing loudly with.
It turns out, if he paid for a bar girl prostitute, it is… “his girl”… at least for the duration of the verbal contract.
That’s how human trafficking works.
…even if is self-trafficking.
But none of that is the point.
We are discussing one issue.
Did the guy who got hit have any responsibility for the outcome?
I propose that he did.
I can say with near-certainty that an arguing couple had no interest in a 16 year-old at 2am (who is freakishly tall for a 16 year-old… hmmm.)
He came to them looking to start trouble.
And he got it.
The Korean legal system will screw GI Joe.
But I bet the Korean will go another 60 years without sticking his nose in other people’s business or mouthing off in front of a GI.
The ideal soldier, by the way, is a guy that opens the door for old ladies, smiles at children, gives you a hand when he sees you struggling with something heavy, and breaks the jaw of pushy people talking shìt.
Chickenhead, how many old grandfathers and children have you physically abused? Why do you Maggots lie so much? Your hero already admitted to police that he was not assaulted, as he first claimed, after he was presented with the CCTV evidence. lol. So the assault charge against the Teen was dropped.
“The ideal soldier…”
Ya, your ideal of your soldier. The truth is, they all act like Johnny Somali, your compatriot. He is the real American. By the way, he wears a Maggot hat, isn’t that ironic?
“The Korean legal system will screw GI Joe”
Far more Koreans have been killed and injured by Americans, than the other way around. You guys are far more violent, culturally and racially, can you dispute that?
Name one GI Joe who served in the Korean prison for a meaningful time, other than Markel. Just name one.
Korean man, 21 year old US Army PFC, no name provided, convicted of rape in Korean Court and sentenced to 10 years. Specialist Cristopher K. McCarthy, convicted in Korean court of the murder of a Korean bar girl in 2000, sentenced to 6 years. I also recall a Specialist Andrew S. Greene and Pvt Ricky G. Ramsey who were both charged for the November 1986 murder of cab Driver Park Chun-bong in Dong du chon. I believe they were both convicted but I had already left the ROK before the trial.
“Sentenced” does not equal to “Served”.
How much time did they really serve before being shipped back to the States?
Korean Man-unnamed US Army PFC sentenced to 10 years in 2011 at a Korean prison as well as Spec. McCarthy sentenced to 6 years in Korean prison for killing the B-girl. Early release and or parole is a Korean justice system issue that needs to be addressed internally. Six years for murder with the possibility of parole/ early release is a miscarriage of justice in my opinion, given the short sentence, perhaps the victims profession was used as a mitigating factor in sentencing. Another potential injustice that needs to be addressed internally.
So let me get this 152G. So this comment by one of your commentators is untrue?
“The Korean legal system will screw GI Joe”
Because it doesn’t sound like those convicted GI Joes got screwed at all. They all got off easy, in exchange for their crimes.
chinabots and their pet propaganda outlets are great about telling half-truths. They also ignore the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) — signed by the Korean Government — that controls how military personnel suspected of crimes are treated.
Actual Koreans who are dissatisfied should address their complaints to the appropriate agency in their own government instead of whinging on the internet like a spoiled child. They are harming South Korea’s image internationally.
We expect that from chinabots, though. Lying to make political points is their specialty. But they throw poo like syphilitic chimpanzees. And end up wearing most of it.
A few facts to consider:
– The Korean legal system will screw GI Joe in this case, not by sending him to prison, which he does not deserve anyway, but by making him financially responsible for popping a loudmouth in the jaw.
The evidence so far, even though it has been selectively edited to put GI Joe in the worst possible light, indicates the guy who got hit was an agressor in the situation before he got hit.
But the Korean legal system doesn’t consider justice in situations like this.
Further, the propaganda is already being set how this poor child who got hit may have lifelong health issues because of this.
GI Joe is going to get screwed beyond his true responsibility.
– Korea yells about how GIs escape justice by leaving Korea when the reality is if Korea lets the military justice system take care of it, they will get a much harsher punishment. There will be more than 6 years for murder.
GIs Escaping Justice ranks up there with comfort women and Dokdo as a political issue to trot out whenever the low-IQ segment of the population needs to be destracted or refocued.
Side Note:
– Comfort Women: Korea could have taken care of them decades ago and it would be a non-issue beyond quiet diplomatic points with Japan. Korea never wants to solve this.
– Dokdo: Korea has it. Japan isn’t going to get it no matter what their textbooks say. The adult thing to do is point this out, then laugh and gloat.
– GI Crime: Insist all crime statistics are publish with a detailed record of the event and outcome. USFK will reduce problems. Koreans will become better educated on the situation and push for the most just outcome.
Actual Koreans who are dissatisfied should address their complaints to the appropriate agency in their own government instead of whinging on the internet like a spoiled child. They are harming South Korea’s image internationally.
And what about you Russiabot?
You use this platform to constantly whine about the vaccine and make up imaginary threats from Communism.
So as per your logic you are not an Actual American.
The vaccine was not useful for anybody but a narrow demographic of high-risk people for a very short time.
It was not effective and it appears not to be safe for a small (but growing) percentage of the population.
So. Yes. The more people who whine, the less likely something similar will happen again.
As for “imaginary” threats from communism, I would share your opinion with about 94 million people, but they aren’t with us anymore.
Come on, CH, do I need to tap the sign again?