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Jang Jung-gu, who is called the legend of Korean boxing, was charged with assaulting a taxi driver last night (20th). We obtained a black box video of the assault, and Jang apologized, saying that it happened while intoxicated.
Reporter Han Seong-hee reported.
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At around 8:40 last night, near Seolleung Station, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, taxi driver A wakes up the passengers in the back seat saying that they have arrived at their destination.
[Taxi Driver: Customer, everyone is here. Customer.] The
passenger wakes up and swears at the taxi driver in annoyance.
[Passenger: I must be scolded. What is the service, that. This XXX.]
[Taxi driver: XXX.]
[Passenger: Hey, this is XXX.] The
passenger fights with the taxi driver, and after a while, hits the taxi driver's face with his fist.
They even hit the face with the hand holding the phone.
It is in front of Seolleung Station on Subway Line 2, where the taxi has arrived.
A's claim is that the assault continued even after getting out of the taxi.
The passenger was former boxer Jung-gu Jang, who was a world champion in the 1980s and made his 15th defense.
[Jang Jeong-gu: I am Jang Jeong-goo.]
[Taxi driver: Jang
Jeong-
gu?]
[Jang
Jeong-
goo: You can’t do that to
me.]
[Taxi driver: Jang
Jeong-
goo, now I see.] The
situation was only after the police arrived after the taxi driver reported it
.
is finished.
A police investigation revealed that Jang was intoxicated at the time of the assault.
[
Mr./Taxi Driver
: This happened in the process of squeezing the face and eyes while pretending to remove the eyes.] The
police booked Mr. Jang for assaulting the driver under the Special Act, and will call him again next week for investigation. said.
In a phone call with SBS, Jang Jung-gu said, "I'm drunk and I can't remember well."
(Video coverage: Lim Dong-guk, video editing: Hwang Ji-young)