S. Korean man who assaulted woman for having short hair gets 3 years in jail

A screenshot of security camera footage showing a man in his 20s assaulting a convenience store clerk in Hadae-dong, Jinju city, in November 2023. - The Korea Herald/ANN

SEOUL: A young man in South Korea who assaulted a female convenience store clerk because she had short hair was sentenced to three years in jail on Tuesday (April 9).

The Jinju branch of the Changwon District Court found the defendant, who is in his 20s, guilty of attacking the female victim and another man, in his 50s, who tried to stop the assault.