A video of a father and two sons intervening to stop a stabbing on a street in Taitung County last month has garnered praise in South Korea after it was reported by the media.
Footage of the July 9 incident has been aired in recent weeks by South Korea’s Munhua Broadcasting Corp and Seoul Broadcasting System, among others, with a video on the latter’s YouTube page, which had been viewed more than 4.8 million times as of yesterday.
Many of more than 8,000 comments on the video praised the men for their selfless action and bravery they showed to help a stranger. There was a similar stabbing attack outside a Seoul Metro station on July 21, which left one person dead and three others injured.
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In an interview with the China Times last month, the younger son from the Hsu (許) family said he saw the 50-year-old male attacker sneak up behind the victim, a 26-year-old woman, on a crosswalk, before lunging at her with a utility knife.
At that moment, he said, his father stopped the car they were in and began honking, while telling his two sons to get out and help the woman.
As they exited the car, the older brother grabbed a large soup ladle from inside the vehicle, which he later dropped to pick up an electric fan from a nearby betel nut stall, he said.
The younger brother grabbed the woman’s suitcase, while the father picked up the discarded ladle, and the three proceeded to surround the attacker with the makeshift weapons, the video of the encounter shows.
After a several minute standoff, the father, Hsu Shih-kuang (許世光), used the ladle to knock the knife out of the attacker’s hand, allowing the group to pin him the ground.
The woman was later treated for non-life threatening injuries, while the attacker, surnamed Chang (張), is being detained and held incommunicado on suspicion of causing bodily harm and attempted murder.
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