Foreign National Chasing Korean Grandmother and Spraying Hand Sanitizer... Public Outrage on SNS Video

On the 15th (Korean time), a Black man living in the United States posted a video on his Instagram spraying hand sanitizer on a Korean grandmother. Photo by Instagram capture.

[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Kim Yeon-ju] Amid the global spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), a foreigner has sparked outrage by posting a video on their social network service (SNS) showing them chasing a Korean grandmother and spraying a liquid presumed to be hand sanitizer on her.

On the 15th (Korean time), a Black man posted a 10-second video on Instagram.

The video shows a man holding hand sanitizer chasing a fleeing Korean grandmother and spraying it on her. The man filming the video follows the grandmother, saying, "Come here, You need some," and laughs as if finding the situation amusing.

The grandmother in the video repeatedly expresses her refusal with her face fully exposed.

Currently, the video has recorded 375,000 views and is posted publicly.

Netizens who saw this are demanding the video be deleted, calling it clear racial discrimination. However, the man is reportedly responding by deleting comments written in Korean without any further explanation.

Moreover, the man initially posted an apology but deleted it a few hours later and posted content mocking Korean netizens through Instagram Stories, causing further outrage.

Korean netizens have left comments criticizing the racial discrimination, such as "Are you taking out your anger on East Asians because you were discriminated against elsewhere?", "Because of you, other Black people will face racial discrimination," "Delete this video and apologize," and "If you face racial discrimination later, it won't be because you are Black but because of your past actions."

Notably, among the comments on the video, a netizen claiming to be the victim grandmother’s granddaughter wrote, "I am the victim grandmother’s granddaughter and I don’t speak English well, so is there anyone who can help?" and added, "My friend repeatedly asked that idiot to delete the video, but he blocked the account, so we decided to report it immediately."

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