Brawl of old woman, teenage girl in subway car causes stir

By Kwon Mee-yoo

A carriage on subway line No. 2 turned into a fight arena when a young teenage girl talked down to an older woman who savagely assaulted the student in response.

The scene was captured by another passenger and uploaded to various websites and YouTube, causing a huge stir among netizens, Monday.

The video clip shows the old lady reprimanding the student for sitting cross-legged and the young girl talking back to her. Losing her temper, the old woman grabbed the girl’s hair, pushed her around and threw her on the seat in the car, while other passengers watched the scuffle.

At the end of the clip, the teen girl shouted into her cell phone, “I hate Korea, dad!” and swore at the old woman. Then she noticed the person recording the scene and said: “Upload it onto YouTube.”

Eyewitnesses explained other details not included in the video. They said the student sat with her legs crossed, wearing shoes smeared with mud and it had stained the old lady’s clothes.

She asked the girl to remove her dirty shoes from the seat and the student apologized twice. The old woman continued to scold her with abusive words and the teen girl then refuted and began talking back to the old lady, when the recording of the clip started.

A netizen said the old woman habitually provokes quarrels with other subway passengers and demands younger people to give up their seats for her.

Reaction from the general public was divided into three types — some blamed the rude schoolgirl for using crude language to the older lady, while the others condemned the old woman who attacked the young student and began quarreling with her.

The third group blamed the onlookers for doing nothing. “I think the people around them just watching are also part of the problem.

They should have pulled them apart,” a netizen nicknamed Mirunamu said.

10대 여학생-할머니 전동차 안 싸움 동영상 논란

지하철 2호선 전동차 안이 10대 학생으로 보이는 여성과 60대로 추정되는 할머니가 격하게 몸싸움하는 격투기장으로 변했다.

이런 시비 장면이 찍힌 동영상이 4일 인터넷에 무차별적으로 유포돼 네티즌 사이에 큰 논란이 일고 있다.

영상 장면을 보면 할머니에게 다리를 꼬고 앉았다며 여학생을 나무라자 학생은 반말로 응대한다. 그러자 할머니는 다른 승객들이 지켜보는 가운데 여학생의 머리채를 잡고 학생을 의자로 밀친다.

그러던 중 여학생은 그녀의 휴대폰에 대고 비명을 지르며 "아빠! 나 한국 너무 싫어. 한국 너무 싫어"라고 외친 뒤 동영상을 촬영하던 이에게는 "유튜브에 올려"라고 고함을 질렀다.

동영상에 찍히지 않은 부분에 대해 목격자들은 여학생이 진흙이 묻은 신발을 신은 채 다리를 꼬고 앉으며 할머니의 옷에 진흙이 묻자 시비가 시작되었다고 말했다.