SEOUL - A 37-year-old woman accused of stabbing three people with a knife on a South Korea subway train said she did so because someone called her “ajumma”, police said on Saturday.
Although the word “ajumma” is a casual way of referring to a middle-aged woman, originating from the more polite “ajumeoni”, it has grown to be associated with negative connotations among Koreans. According to South Korea’s subway police, the accused was speaking on the phone when one of the two women asked her to lower her voice, calling her ajumma, which she said offended her.Officials are looking to charge the accused with inflicting “special violence” on another person. Similar to aggravated assault, this charge can be made when an injury has been inflicted via a deadly weapon or collective force, and is punishable by one to 10 years in prison.
Separately in 2019, a local court upheld the Korean military’s decision to suspend a colonel, saying that his references to female subordinates as “ajumma” had derogatory implications.
straits_times ‘ajumma’ means aunt , to which the woman perhaps is very young and is angry about being called an ‘ajumma’, so she stabs the passengers.
straits_times Hmm I didn’t know knife is an everyday necessity kept in Korean women’s bag
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