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3 million won fine was sentenced to a passenger in their 60s who assaulted a taxi driver while drunk.
The law was changed to severely punish those who drive taxis or buses for assault, but even now, an average of 8 people per day are affected.
Reporter Deok-Hyun Kim covered it.
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vehicle stopped to receive a left turn signal.
A passenger in the back seat suddenly steps up in the passenger seat and starts kicking indiscriminately towards the driver who turned his head back.
[The guest gets on the back and makes a mess. It's a big problem.] The
moment you hurriedly evacuate and get back into the vehicle, you see a passenger trying to attack again and take your seat again.
I wasn't seriously injured, but the taxi driver suffered trauma for a while.
[Park Sung-han/Assault victim taxi driver: I was surprised. for no reason. I tried to calm my heart down, but it didn't work. How about that customer. Especially at night.]
A man in his 60s who assaulted a driver while drunk at the time was recently fined 3 million rounds.
Unlike city buses that have been obligated to install bulkheads since 2006 to prevent assault, taxis have no provisions to support or enforce them.
Some local governments, such as Seoul and Gyeonggi Province, supported the installation of bulkheads themselves, but the response from taxi drivers was low, so it was stopped.
On average, eight taxi and bus drivers across the country per day suffer violence.
Along with effective measures to prevent damage, the correct citizenship of passengers is urgent.
(Video editing: Park Ki-duk, VJ: Kim Jong-gap)