“Women’s exposure fashion is innocent… Is it guilty if a man wears hot pants?”

As if it’s hard to punish men in coffee shop thongs

Experts “Can be punished only when major areas are exposed”

On the 18th, a man ordered a drink in a black t-shirt at a coffee shop on the beach in Gwangalli, Suyeong-gu, Busan. Could this man be punished? Yonhap News reported that the police are chasing the man, but even if he finds it, it is difficult to punish legally. What is the reason?

According to the media, experts believe that punishment is difficult because the criminal law does not meet the requirements for obstruction of business or obscene performance.

Attorney Hye-jin Seo (Director of Human Rights, Korean Women’s Bar Association) said, “The other party may have been unpleasant or embarrassed, but the act itself cannot be seen as interfering with business.” “The principle is that you must be punished,” he said.

Charges of overexposure can also be difficult to apply.

Jang Seung-hyuk, a professor at Hanyang University’s Law School, explained, “It seems that the provisions were made on the premise that the entire main part is exposed.”

There is also a backlash called’reverse discrimination’ against men. There are protests about why women wearing leggings are not punished, and why men should not wear hot pants. If punished for wearing a T-shirt, they should also ask women for’poultry disorder,’ such as demonstrations in semi-nude and bikinis, and unconventional World Cup street cheering costumes.

Professor Seung-hyuk Jang emphasized, “You shouldn’t have the law just because you feel’it’s ugly when men wear it like that’,” he said.

One netizen said, “It seems embarrassing is an unavoidable part, but is it a little funny to punish them by law, even though they did not act strangely while hurting others?”

Another netizen protested, “Should men wear long pants only? Are women’s voile clothes fashion and men’s hot pants guilty?”

On the other hand, some say that the man in question may be a “Chungju T-panty Man,” who ordered in a cafe in Chungju, Chungbuk and Wonju, Gangwon in 2019, two years ago.