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Spike in demand for self-defence items, classes after random subway stabbings in S. Korea
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Participants at Seongdong Safety Learning Centre's self-defence course learning how to use bags to defend against random stabbing attacks.
PHOTO: SEONGDONG SAFETY LEARNING CENTRE
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SEOUL – Seoul resident Kim Mi-young almost screamed in fear in September in a subway train when she saw in the glass door the reflection of a strange ahjussi, or a middle-aged man in South Korea, just behind her.
Minutes before, the man had sat beside the 29-year-old office worker while she was engrossed in texting a friend during her one-hour commute home.
