A man who was rejected by a girl who wanted to be an actor, “beat up a girl who wanted to be an actor” and acted horrified after the crime.

Come hang out with me!

I can’t. I have a husband.

In downtown Seoul, South Korea, a group of men picked up a woman standing in front of a convenience store. The woman refused on the grounds that she was married. The men persistently asked her out, but when she rejected them again, they became angry, hurled abusive language at her, and suddenly struck her.

On May 22, the Gangnam Police Station in Seoul applied for a warrant to detain Mr. A, a man in his 20s, on suspicion of assault. According to the police, he punched Ms. B, a woman in her 20s, in the face and seriously injured her in Apgujeong-dong, a downtown area of Seoul, just before 3:00 a.m. on May 7.

In a program broadcast by the South Korean broadcaster SBS on May 19, the interviewed Ms. B’s story and the surveillance camera footage from that time were introduced. The camera caught three men, including Mr. A, pestering Ms. B. When she strongly refused, Mr. A’s attitude turned against her. When she strongly refused, Mr. A’s attitude changed drastically, and according to Ms. B, he “ran about 5 meters and hit her with a full swing. It was like a punching machine.

She was hit with the full force of the blow, and fell to the ground as if blown away. She suffered multiple broken and shattered bones in her face, and her face was deformed. She suffered serious injuries that will take a month and a half to heal, and she is also undergoing psychiatric treatment because her mind was severely damaged.

Controversial Cigarette Butt

Ms. B is a graduate of the theater and film department and aspires to become an actress. She was beaten so severely that her face was deformed, and the shock she suffered physically and mentally was immeasurable.

One person on the Internet suggested that Ms. B threw a cigarette butt she was smoking at Mr. A, which may have been the reason he became so enraged. Indeed, the security camera caught Mr. B throwing the cigarette butt. However, Mr. B clearly denied it on a TV program he appeared on, saying that he did not throw the cigarette butt at the assailant, but only threw it on the side of the road.

What is surprising is the behavior of Mr. A and others after the crime.

Mr. A and his friends fled the scene and went to a tavern in Seoul and drank until dawn as if nothing had happened.

If Mr. B’s allegations are true, Mr. A has committed an outrageous act that could shut down the future of a woman who aspires to be an actor.