Public outrage as Korean cabby uses translation app to ask Thai tourist to ‘pay with body’
Despite ‘frightening’ taxi driver’s clear verbal sexual harassment of woman passenger, he cannot be punished under South Korean law
A South Korean taxi driver who harassed a tourist from Thailand by suggesting that she could “pay” the fare with her body has sparked anger online in both countries.
A woman visitor posted a video clip on a social media platform on June 19, showing an unidentified taxi driver communicating with her using a translation app while in his cab.
He was asking her inappropriate personal questions, like whether she had a boyfriend and why she was not married.
The driver also said that he could find her a job: “It is not hard. You just need to clean rooms,” he said.
The woman was taking the taxi to Seoul Station to board a train to Busan.
After learning that Busan was her destination, the driver proposed to drive her there himself and said: “If you do not have money for the fare, you can pay with your body.”
The poster said the driver even stopped his car to talk to her at one point, which she found most frightening.
