Over the past few weeks we’ve had the delight of seeing Swearing Woman, Soju Girl and even Poo Girl. But now spring is upon us, the koreaBANG Ladygate has opened onto a lady-garden in full bloom. On May 5, those riding Line 1 on the Seoul subway got a little something to perk up their evening commute. Thanks to the dark arts of blurry censorship, just how perky it was exactly, we’ll never know.
At 6pm, a woman apparently in her forties clambered onto the train at Cheongnyangni station, where she proceeded to remove every last stitch of clothing in a drunken dervish, swearing and lashing out at fellow passengers. Flaps to the wind, she continued her trashed tirade for three entire stops before someone called 112 and the police escorted her from the train at Dongmyo station. What could have taken them so long?
According to a police spokesman, when the woman alighted the train she was
…. found to be in an unfit mental state on account of the fact that she was drunk, and as we were escorting her away she began to hyperventilate and was transferred to a nearby hospital.
The identity of the woman has been kept confidential, with the woman being referred to in the press only as ‘Ms. A’. Furthermore, there has been some discrepancy over the woman’s real age; while earliest reports suggest that she was in her forties, elsewhere she has been referred to as being in her early thirties, implying that her appearance may have differed somewhat from the usual soju beauties that grace the walls of the Seoul Metro:
I wish we all looked like that after a drink...
Though the story did not attract the same number of comments as some of our previous ‘Ladygate‘ candidates, it did trend on Twitter, while the video attracted tens of thousands of hits quickly followed by tens of thousands of disappointed faces when viewers realised that a fleshy mosaic was all that could be seen. Clearly, as netizens have also pointed out, the woman must have been going through some mental trauma and may be in need of support. However most netizens are decrying what they see as a new form of gender inequality in Korean society, with most agreeing that if a man had acted in this way he would have immediately been arrested and sentenced, as has been the case in the past. Should “Naked Girl” be punished for being off her tits and on the train? Or should she be given a blanket and a strong cup of coffee?
Comments from Nate:
오영준
Hmph, you’re telling me she won’t get any punishment at all for sexual embarrassment???? What did the young guys on the train do wrong?…..I’ve seen the picture, and she was a flabby old chunker….In the future if the women get a phobia and can’t even get married, will she take responsibility??
박성혁
If she’d been a young, beautiful, fit woman in her twenties, that’d have been a jackpot.
이정현
Burberry man got an unconditional sentence,,,a woman who so blatantly takes off her clothes like that in public is innocent because of the excuse that she’s not right in the head.
안인호
If a man had done that wouldn’t he have been arrested for being disorderly?
오창훈
Until I came to the part where it said she was forty, I had read letter by letter, so carefully…
장문희
So she exposed herself because she was crazy and won’t recieve any particular punishment?? Does that make any sense? Those people causing havoc smoking, shitting, stripping on the subway, they’re none of them sane~ No matter whether they’re a man or a woman, these weirdos should all be punished!!!
문지혜
I was there on that day…really…the fact that she won’t get punishment for this is really weird…ㅠㅠ She was even swearing, so what was that old lady doing. Seriously, because you see this on the news, it’s not alright, is it?..I was so afraid that day..for the whole day I felt sick…ㅠㅠ And at first, that woman was lying across a seat in the subway like she was watching TV, there was nowhere for anyone else to sit down, and when someone asked what she was doing because she was lying down, she started swearing…She also really stank..I was so shocked that now even by looking at the subway I feel bad…Really the people there on that day know///When other passengers looked at her, she was shouting, and made such a big fuss,,,, It wasn’t only me, many other passengers were shocked;.Honestly, disgusting.
김용진
These days Korean woman are being really bold……..
서교진
Of course she should get punished!So she wasn’t right in the head? That Burberry man wasn’t right in the head, was he? But I mean, he was punished. And this incident is just the same as that one. Just one is a man, one is woman. I think it’s necessary to punish her in the same way as Burberry man.
구성모
If you think about it, the fact that a forty year old woman stripped, for the men that’s already menboong ………they should get compensation for psychological stress ke ke ke ke ke
홍태규
If you go to Seoul you can see everything from the subway ke ke ke I guess that’s much better than average sight-seeing spots?
김몽양
And what if, by chance, a man were to take off his clothes???
박규헌
Honestly they say that men and women are equal, but if you think about it, when a man and a woman do the same thing, just look at the reaction, according to the advantages and disadvantanges, they say different things…This separates men and women, and so, well, it’s like they’re idiots, isn’t it?
심우일
Since women’s rights have expanded, women really are extending remarkably. Nowadays why are women like this? There’s been swearing girl, poo girl, indecent girl and so on and so on,,,,Why are they like this,,,he
최승택
Just as the word says, c-r-a-z-y b-i-t-c-h.
이준수
What would have happened had it been a man? I’m pretty curious…
이승룡
Seems like they should get treatment rather than a penalty
성현호
She’d been drinking, so she doesn’t get punished ke ke ke ke ke At least in our country, that is.
백승일
I wonder which subway girl will appear next?? Maybe it’ll be pure girl, ke ke
박진영
What….she must have been wasted…these days there are so many empty-headed kids about, they can’t tell half the time whether they’re wearing clothes or not…Hmm even if it seemed enjoyable to them …why don’t they consider that it’s bothering other people who have nowhere else to look…
김진형
If a hammered guy took his clothes off and caused a fuss, seems like the women there, thirty of them, would have filed a class action against him, and he’d have gone to prison and they’d have made it so that he’d never move from there…
백광일
If I was also to drink, get naked and swear on the subway…would I be innocent?????ㅡㅡ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
고은성
Excretion girl should be banged up in a cell. To just leave things be is not the correct actions of a lawful nation. Looks like I’ll have to cause havoc.
박병덕
This isn’t exactly a minor crime. Well, I’m astounded.
