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A Korean man who stepped in to protect a Taiwanese couple being threatened by a drunk man on the Seoul subway has been identified after the story went viral online.
The Taiwanese couple, who were visiting Seoul, posted on Threads on June 20 asking for help finding "two angels" who had come to their rescue at Gangnam Station at 11:30 p.m. on June 19.
"A threatening drunk man approached us on the Line 2 platform at Gangnam Station, crouched right in front of us and started shouting," the post read. "We were so scared we tried to move the wheelchair back, but he kept coming toward us."
The couple said a young man in a white shirt then stepped in, using an umbrella to block the aggressor and shield them. They thought the situation was over and boarded a train — but the drunk man followed them on board, grabbed a handrail in front of them and began making threatening remarks again.
"We were terrified and wondering whether we should get off at the next station," the post continued. "Then the man in the white shirt came back, this time with a heavyset man in a yellow shirt, and together they used their umbrellas like a barrier to push the drunk man about three meters away from us."
"They were truly like saviors," the couple wrote, adding that the man in the white shirt called the police and the drunk man was removed from the train.
The post quickly spread across online communities and social media.
On June 22, a commenter on the same Threads post identified himself as one of the men who had helped the couple.
He introduced himself as "Yeonwoo's dad, the one in the white shirt holding a black umbrella that day," and explained that the drunk man had been shouting and disturbing multiple people on the platform. "I felt uncomfortable seeing him act threateningly toward the two visitors to Korea, and felt I had to help," he wrote.
He said he had not realized the couple were foreign until after he helped them. "When I was about to get off at my stop, one of them showed me a card hanging around their neck that read 'I am Taiwanese' and thanked me — that's how I found out," he said.
He also offered an apology. "I'm sorry you had to go through something like this in a place that should have given you only good memories," he wrote. "I hope the rest of your trip in Korea is filled with happiness, and that only good things come your way from here on."
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