"Go Back to Your Country?" Bangladeshi Student Assaulted by Customer at Restaurant

Busan Haeundae Police Station Investigates Two University Students on Assault Charges

A foreign student working at a restaurant was brutally assaulted by a university student customer who was dissatisfied with the music volume, and police are currently investigating the incident.

According to the Haeundae Police Station in Busan, on the 5th at around 8:50 p.m., a Bangladeshi employee in his 20s was repeatedly punched in the face by a male customer in his 20s, identified as A, at a restaurant in Jung-dong, Haeundae-gu, for not complying with the customer's request. Another employee who tried to intervene was also assaulted. On the 22nd, police announced that they are investigating A on charges of assault and injury, and plan to question one of A's companions as well.

According to the police, B, a student from Bangladesh, was working at the restaurant on the 5th when he received a request from a customer to "turn up the volume."

B complied with the request, but then another customer asked him to "turn the volume down," so he lowered the music.

At that moment, A and his companions, who had asked for the music to be turned up, protested to B, demanding, "Why are you turning the volume down?"

Another foreign part-time worker who witnessed the situation tried to explain, but A and his group began to pick a fight with B and the other foreign worker, saying, "Why did you come to Korea? Go back to your country."

One of the customers even threatened the foreign workers, saying, "I'm a gangster in this neighborhood."

Unable to stop the threats from the group, B called the police, and upon seeing this, A punched B. It was reported that B suffered a cut lip and a broken tooth.

The police arrived and stopped the assault, and B was taken to the hospital. It was revealed that A, who had shouted that he was a "gangster," is a university student. B is said to have stopped working at the restaurant and is currently resting due to aftereffects from the assault.

The police are investigating A and another customer on charges of assault and injury.