'Disciplinary Action' YouTuber with 500,000 Subscribers Detained for Assaulting Fellow Creators

Repeatedly Assaulted Four Fellow YouTubers
Evidence Remains from On-Air Verbal Abuse and Profanity

A YouTuber with over 500,000 subscribers, who gained popularity through so-called "disciplinary action" content targeting organized crime syndicates, has been handed over to the prosecution on charges including assaulting a fellow YouTuber.

On April 11, the Metropolitan Investigation Unit of the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency announced that YouTuber Eom was detained and referred to the prosecution on charges of joint injury, assault, and coercion. Eom is accused of repeatedly assaulting four fellow YouTubers, including Kim, whom he knew personally, after an altercation broke out during a gathering in March of last year, and on multiple occasions since.

Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency. Yonhap News Agency

The police explained that they secured video footage from Eom's YouTube broadcast as evidence, which captured him verbally abusing and using profanities against the victims. It has been reported that Eom admitted to the offenses for which such evidence exists.

Previously, the police obtained an arrest warrant for Eom and apprehended him at his residence on April 1. Subsequently, they also conducted searches and seizures at Eom's office and studio. The police plan to continue investigating whether other members of the YouTube crew led by Eom were involved in the crimes.

Eom was previously indicted and detained in April 2024 for extorting several hundred million won by threatening associates of the perpetrator in the so-called "Apgujeong Rolls-Royce incident," on charges including extortion and defamation under the Information and Communications Network Act. He was released on bail in October of the same year. Although he had been on trial without detention, he has now been detained again due to this recent assault case.

Eom, who has mainly produced YouTube content focused on martial arts and private sanctions, gained popularity for targeting and retaliating against the "Nammunpa," the largest gang in Suwon, with "disciplinary action" content—a figurative expression meaning to harshly punish others for their wrongdoings—related to organized crime.

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