Public outrage as Korean cabby uses translation app to ask Thai tourist to ‘pay with body'
A woman visitor posted a video clip on a social media on June 19, which shows an unidentified taxi driver communicating with her using a translation app while she was in his cab.
He was asking her inappropriate personal questions, like whether she had a boyfriend and why was she not married.
The woman from Thailand wanted the taxi driver to take her to Seoul Station to catch a train. Photo: Shutterstock
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.
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