{"id":1364312,"date":"2022-03-08T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1364312"},"modified":"2022-03-08T09:41:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:41:13","slug":"70-year-old-youtuber-beats-head-of-south-korean-ruling-party-with-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/70-year-old-youtuber-beats-head-of-south-korean-ruling-party-with-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"70-Year-Old &#039;YouTuber&#039; Beats Head of South Korean Ruling Party with Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F70-year-old-youtuber-beats-head-of-south-korean-ruling-party-with-hammer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1364312&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">\u00a0A 70-year-old man <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20220307005154315?section=national\/politics\">attacked<\/a> the chairman of South Korea\u2019s ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), Song Young-gil, with a hammer during a campaign stop in Seoul on Monday, causing Song to suffer injuries to his head requiring stitches, South Korea\u2019s Yonhap News Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSong was campaigning in Seoul\u2019s Sinchon area for Wednesday\u2019s presidential election when the assailant came up to him from behind and struck him in the head several times with a hammer wrapped in a black plastic bag,\u201d Yonhap reported on March 7.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cSong was rushed to a nearby hospital with bleeding from his head and received stitches,\u201d officials for the left-wing DPK told South Korean media on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Song issued a statement via his Facebook page on March 7 stating he \u201cwill be ok,\u201d South Korea\u2019s Arirang TV reported. The news outlet revealed doctors who treated Song for his head injuries on Monday told the politician his wounds were \u201cnon-life-threatening.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Eyewitness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E4UUa_2lfJY\">video<\/a> footage of the incident published by Arirang TV on March 7 shows the assailant approaching Song from behind before striking him repeatedly with a hammer. Members of the crowd gathered around Song at the time immediately leapt to the politician\u2019s defense and detained the attacker before police could arrive.<\/p>\n<p>The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said Monday the assailant was in its custody, adding its officers were \u201cquestioning the suspect on charges of violating the election law and assault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Song\u2019s attacker has not been named, though Yonhap loosely identified him as a \u201c70-year-old YouTuber who \u2026 appeared to have followed the chairman on the campaign trail since last month in videos uploaded to YouTube.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The assailant allegedly shouted that he \u201copposes South Korea-U.S. military exercises and cannot stand to leave behind such a world to the youth\u201d before physically assaulting Song on Monday, Yonhap reported, citing an unnamed eyewitness\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p>Song was in Seoul on March 7 as part of the DPK\u2019s effort to support the campaign of its nominee for the 2022 South Korean presidential election, Lee Jae-myung. Song is both the DPK\u2019s chairman and Lee\u2019s campaign manager. South Koreans will elect their next president on March 9, though early voting for the election <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/view.php?ud=20220304000637\">began<\/a> on March 4 and ended on March 5.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign for South Korea\u2019s presidential office has been characterized by \u201cscandals, smear tactics and gaffes,\u201d Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/skorea-scrambles-rework-covid-19-poll-plans-after-early-voting-lapses-2022-03-07\/\">observed<\/a> on Monday.\u00a0 The news agency highlighted some such \u201cgaffes,\u201d including an allegation by South Korea\u2019s National Election Commission (NEC) that some early polling stations failed to properly retrieve votes.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters detailed the allegation, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Chaos erupted at many polling places during Saturday\u2019s special early voting for [Chinese coronavirus-] infected voters. Instead of letting the voters directly cast ballots, some election workers collected and carried them in a shopping bag or plastic bucket to place in ballot boxes, the NEC said.<\/p>\n<p>Some voters received papers that had already been used, while others had to wait in long queues in the cold, with at least one reported to have fainted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The DPK\u2019s Lee and Yoon Suk-yeol of the right-wing, opposition People Power Party (PPP) were reportedly \u201crunning neck-and-neck\u201d in the race for South Korea\u2019s top political office at press time Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A 70-year-old man attacked the chairman of South Korea\u2019s ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), Song Young-gil, with a hammer during a campaign stop in Seoul on Monday, causing Song<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}