Recently, as hate crimes against Asians have become more serious in the United States, the damages of Koreans have continued. Don’t ask me enough to break my ribs on the road. I was beaten. I went into a convenience store run by a Korean and made a riot with an iron stick.
Correspondent Kim Yoon-soo from Washington reports.
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A man in a red top rushes at the couple passing by on the street.
I want to tell my husband something, and then I start swinging my fists.
[어머, 하지마. 하지마. 도와줘요. 도와줘요!]
A couple of Korean victims in their 50s were attacked last November while walking along the street in Tacoma, Washington, USA.
My husband broke a rib when he was being’don’t ask but assaulted’ by people who didn’t even have one side.
The police arrested a 15-year-old boy who was perpetrated in four months and handed it over to trial through an assault video posted on social media recently.
On the 30th of last month, a’iron bar riot’ took place at a convenience store operated by a Korean American in Charlotte, North Carolina.
A young man entered the store and smashed the store’s items, such as refrigerators and shelves, swinging an iron bar.
[성열문/편의점 주인 : 우리한테 욕하면서 그냥 ‘중국인들, 너희 나라로 돌아가라’ 철근을 가져다 휘두르기 시작하면서 한 6~7분 난동을 부렸어요. 우린 뭐 전부 다 겁에 질렸죠.]
A 24-year-old young man who committed a riot was arrested by the police at the scene.
The police believe that it may be a hate crime because the criminal did not steal things.
Amid a series of hate crimes, a survey shows that Asians in the United States are often reluctant to report hate crimes, and analysts say that there are more unknown hate crimes.
(Video coverage: Park Eun-ha, Video editing: Kim Ho-jin)