Man flees after spraying ink on women’s stockings in Busan

Police are tracing the whereabouts of a man suspected of spraying ink on female college students wearing stockings at Pusan National University.

A 28-year-old student at the university in Busan made a call on Wednesday to a regional police agency reporting the incident where a man appeared to be in his 20s sprayed black ink on her stockings and ran off on Oct. 26. 

A similar incident took place on Oct. 18 where two victims-- aged 19 and 20 --were also sprayed with black ink on their stockings, while they were climbing the stairs to the Engineering School in the university. The victims reported feeling “something cold” on their legs and discovered the ink-sprayed stockings with no one in sight.

Business College students further reported falling victim to the ink-spraying through their social media. Multiple posts on Pusan National University’s Facebook student page revealed that the situation was getting out of hand and the students felt too anxious to attend class.

Some students suspect that the suspect may be the actual “Gangnam Station (in Seoul) stocking terrorist” himself. Last year, a man was caught by the police for spraying black ink on 16 flight attendants and then keeping the thrown out stockings as souvenirs near Gangnam Station. It may be possible that the suspect in Busan is spraying ink intending to do the same. 

Busan District Police said that they could not find any security footage of the suspect committing the crime and do not know whether there are any more victims.

By Catherine Chung (cec82@heraldcorp.com)