Imagine that you are an American sitting in a Seoul drinking establishment minding your own business.  Your Korean ex-girlfriend is there as well, but you are not there together.  You then observe a younger Korean man begin verbal harassing your ex.  And then he strikes her.  Acting on instinct you get up and tell the guy to back off and give him a shove.  The guy collapses and goes into cardiac arrest.  He is transported to the hospital and placed in ICU.  You are placed under arrest and transported to jail.

This just happened to a friend of mine.  I’m not sure what the outcome will be, but I don’t see any scenario where he isn’t screwed.  Any options he might have are going to require money that he does not have.  So, at my suggestion he’s set up a Go Fund Me account.  I hope things work out for him somehow, but I don’t have much faith in Korean “justice” under these circumstances.