"Lower Your Voice" Criticism... 30s Person Overturns Maeuntang and Causes Disturbance

Assaulting Restaurant Owner Who Came to Stop Them and Others

A woman in her 30s was arrested by the police after causing a disturbance when another customer told her to "lower her voice" during an argument with her mother at a restaurant.

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On the 18th, the Gimpo Police Station in Gyeonggi Province announced that they had sent Ms. A, in her 30s, to the prosecution without detention on charges of obstruction of business and assault.

Ms. A is accused of disrupting the restaurant's operations by causing a disturbance at a restaurant located in Gimpo City around 7:10 p.m. on the 29th of last month. It was reported that she overturned a pot of boiling hot spicy fish stew and threw side dishes and ladles.

The restaurant owner, Mr. B, in his 40s, and a customer, Mr. C, in his 20s, tried to stop Ms. A’s rampage, but she is also accused of assaulting them by kicking and scratching their necks.

At the time of the incident, Ms. A was arguing with her mother in the restaurant, and when another customer asked her to lower her voice to stop the fight, she caused the disturbance.