Though I understand the impulse to get annoyed when all you want is one simple bag in which you can carry one simple thing and you can’t have one, this seems like a slight overreaction. Seems like some Olympic level grudge holding, too.
Just dropping in to see if you had the bag I asked for.
At around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, the driver slammed the car into the store, damaging some items there. With the lights partially out, the man rushed into the store and assaulted the owner.
The driver was reportedly under the influence of alcohol. No casualties were reported as a result of the accident.
Police saw this as a retaliatory crime, as the driver had earlier been accused of physically harming the owner in late November of last year.
In November 2022, the man had asked the owner for a plastic bag when buying ice cream. The owner refused the request, abiding by a ban on single-use plastic bags by the Ministry of Environment.
Enraged, the man spat on the store owner.
The owner’s family later filed a complaint with police. The owner rejected the accused man’s request to settle the matter privately instead of opening a case.
The driving through the store incident happened in January 2023, so almost a full two months after what should have been a fairly simple matter to resolve. But now? Now it’s not quite so simple, as based on the charges he’s facing he could wind up in prison for up to 15 years. South Korea doesn’t take kindly to retaliatory crimes and destruction of property, apparently.
