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.