Spike in demand for self-defense items, lessons after random subway stabbings in South Korea

Arief Budi

Global Courant

SEOUL – Seoul resident Kim Mi-young nearly screamed in fear on a subway train in September when she saw the reflection of a strange ahjussi, or middle-aged man in South Korea, right behind her in the glass door.

Minutes earlier, the man had sat next to the 29-year-old office worker as she was engrossed in texting a friend during her hour-long drive home.

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Spike in demand for self-defense items, lessons after random subway stabbings in South Korea

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