"Take Off Your Glasses, You Went to the PC Bang" - Hapkido Instructor Punished for Competing with 11-Year-Old

Wearing Headgear and Gloves... 150 Hits to the Whole Body
2 Years Imprisonment with 3 Years Probation... 5 Years Employment Ban

A Hapkido instructor engaged in a sparring match with a gym student who was only 11 years old. The reason was that the student broke a promise not to go to a PC bang. The instructor struck the student’s entire body about 150 times and was eventually punished.

The Chuncheon District Court Criminal Division 2 (Presiding Judge Lee Young-jin) announced on the 7th that it sentenced A (37), who was indicted on charges of injury and child abuse under the Child Welfare Act, to 2 years in prison with a 3-year probation, the same as the original trial. Along with probation, A was ordered to attend 40 hours of child abuse treatment lectures, complete 240 hours of community service, and was banned from employment at child-related institutions for 5 years.

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On the evening of March 2 last year, at a Hapkido gym in Wonju, Gangwon Province, instructor A told B (11) to "take off your glasses and put on headgear and gloves." Then, A put on gloves himself and sparred with B.

A repeatedly struck B, knocking him down, and when B got up, A hit him again, repeating this about 150 times.

Even after the sparring ended, A physically abused B for about an hour by hitting him with his hands, kicking him to knock him down, forcing him to kneel facing the wall, tripping him, and throwing him down about 23 times. As a result, B sustained injuries requiring two weeks of treatment.

The sparring occurred because "B broke a promise." About two weeks earlier, B had promised not to go to a PC bang, but on the day of the incident, B went again.

The Wonju Branch of the Chuncheon District Court, which handled the first trial, stated, "Considering that the crime was committed for about an hour in front of young students and the circumstances of the 112 emergency call, the crime is very serious," but also took into account that "the victim’s side reached a settlement and expressed a desire not to punish," and thus sentenced A to a suspended prison term.

The appellate court, which reviewed A’s claim that "the sentence was too harsh," dismissed the appeal, stating, "There has been no significant change in circumstances favorable to the defendant since the original judgment."

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