37-year-old S. Korean woman accused of stabbing 3 after being called ‘ajumma’
South Korean police have requested an arrest warrant for a woman accused of stabbing three people on a subway after she got offended when they called her “ajumma.”
The incident reportedly occurred inside a subway train en route to Jukjeon Station in Yongin, a city in Gyeonggi Province, on the Suin Bundang Line on Saturday.
Authorities said the 37-year-old assailant, whose name was not revealed in the report, was talking on the phone when a woman asked her to lower her voice and referred to her as "ajumma."
Angered by the woman's request, the assailant began attacking other passengers with a knife, injuring a man in his 50s and a woman in her 60s. While there were no reported fatalities, one of the victims had to undergo surgery for their injuries.