"Wielding Wooden Clubs and Assaulting"... Foreigners Engage in Late-Night Group Brawl

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Late at night on the 3rd, foreigners engaged in a group brawl, even wielding wooden clubs, at a park in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province. Police arrested two people at the scene and are investigating the motive behind the fight.

Reporter Dong Eunyeong has the details.

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A park in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province.

At a late hour, several men chase after an individual and strike them down with wooden clubs.

[Stop! (You're all on camera.)]

As the voluntary crime prevention patrol approaches blowing whistles, the men drop their clubs and scatter in all directions.

A report was received at around 11:30 PM the night before last that about 10 foreigners of Central Asian nationality were fighting in the park.

It is reported that after being dispersed by the voluntary patrol at a park some 350 meters away, they moved to another location to continue the fight.

[Park Jun-woo / Pyeongtaek Dogok-ri Pureun Voluntary Crime Prevention Patrol Member: They took out things like wooden clubs and iron pipes from their cars and came in swinging. I blew the whistle repeatedly to threaten them and kept pushing them back to scatter them.]

The group fighting in the park fled in vehicles upon the police's arrival.

Some individuals even went into a nearby convenience store and asked to be hidden.

Police arrested two foreign men in their 20s of Kyrgyz and Russian nationalities at the scene, and it was confirmed that both sustained injuries and are receiving treatment at a hospital.

Nearby residents cannot hide their anxiety over the late-night mass brawl.

[Nearby Resident: They were beating each other up over there, it's scary. ((Fights happen) once in a while. They don't happen often, but fights occasionally break out at night. People from the same country fight each other and smash cars...)]

Police plan to track down and apprehend the individuals who fled to investigate the specific details of the crime.

(Video by: Yang Jihoon, Video Editing by: Oh Young-taek)
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